(I am thinking of a friend who took two tiny barrels of orange sunshine one night when the rest of us took one, and we had to show him the photograph on his license to convince him that he had a name and that he wasn't an explorer from outer space.
Another example of the works that Burges created for Lady Bute as a present for her husband, was a silver cruet set, in the form of two medieval retainers carrying tiny barrels of salt and pepper; the answer to the question of "what to give a man who (could) afford everything".
Frankly, it always felt unsportsmanlike to shoot so large and languorous a fish in so tiny a barrel.
There are also gift packs, including a box from Wallenford Estate with two or three tiny wooden barrels, each filled with two ounces of coffee (the three-barrel box is 1,980 Jamaican dollars).
Daniele Bonfatti gives a fascinating free tour of his Acetaia del Cristo in San Prospero, 20km north of town, where this luscious vinegar is aged in tiny wooden barrels for up to 25 years, and there are a number of "celebrity barrels" reserved for the likes of Michael Douglas.
Try their magical Mai Tai; the base of Caribbean rums is poured not from a bottle, but from a tiny French-oak barrel, where it is stored for weeks and infused with rich cinnamon and vanilla flavours.
She was tiny, with a barrel-chested posture.
Dottie Kiwi, the owner of the Starlight is a tiny woman with a barrel chest & dwarf's face.
The two million barrels is a tiny fraction of the 89 million barrels consumed daily around the globe.
