The true measure of a beer

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The true measure of a beer

Post by Dwayne_Delaney » Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:20 pm

Beer Capacities

Average Bottle / Crown Cap = 12 ounces / 22 ounces
Balthazar = 12 litres or 3.17 gallons
Barrel = 31.5 U.S. gallons or 1.17 hectolitres. In the UK, 1 Barrel holds 36 imperial gallons or 1.63 hectolitres
Beer Bottle with Cork and Cage = 750 ml (750 ml bottle serves approximately three 8-ounce glasses of beer)
Grolsch Bottle = 22 oz. or 650 ml / 50 oz. or 1.5 litres / 169 oz. or 5 litres
Jeroboam = 3 litres or 3/4 gallon
Keg = a half-barrel or approximately 15 U.S. gallons and weighs about 136 pounds ("Real-life" experiments translate that to about one-hundred-forty-two 12-cup servings)
Import Keg = 13.2 gallons of beer
Magnum = 1.5 litres
Methuselah = 6 litres or 1.58 gallons
Middle or Pot = 10 ounces
Nebuchadnezzar = 15 litres or 3.96 gallons
Pony or Quarter-barrel Keg = 7.75 gallons
Rehoboam = 4.5 litres or 1.188 gallons
Salmanazar = 9 litres or 2.37 gallons
Schooner = 15 ounces
Sixth-barrel Keg = ~5 gallons
Stubbie = ~12 ounces, but is shorter and fatter than the typical American beer bottle
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Re: The true measure of a beer

Post by john mills » Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:45 am

All common measures to the late great, Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson.
I've only consumed from 10 out of the 18 measurements.
You gonna buy one, or be one?
.....I'm gonna be one!

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Re: The true measure of a beer

Post by BM1 » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:58 pm

You fogot to include 'Fishbowl' (?) :(
You gonna stop whinin' 'bout that beer,or you gonna send it to me?
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Re: The true measure of a beer

Post by Don » Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:56 am

BM1 wrote:You fogot to include 'Fishbowl' (?) :(
In some bars fishbowls and Schooner are the same?
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Re: The true measure of a beer

Post by Kenny Lucas » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:31 pm

Go to Indy and try to order a beer in a fishbowl, they will look at you like you are from mars.

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Re: The true measure of a beer

Post by Don » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:03 am

Kenny Lucas wrote:Go to Indy and try to order a beer in a fishbowl, they will look at you like you are from mars.
Or the south!!
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Re: The true measure of a beer

Post by BM1 » Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:51 pm

Must be a local thing :shock:
:beer3 ........................................... :beer8
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