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
The true measure of a beer
- Dwayne_Delaney
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The true measure of a beer
Dwayne Delaney
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Billy Carter
"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is"
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- john mills
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Re: The true measure of a beer
All common measures to the late great, Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson.
I've only consumed from 10 out of the 18 measurements.
I've only consumed from 10 out of the 18 measurements.
You gonna buy one, or be one?
.....I'm gonna be one!
.....I'm gonna be one!
- BM1
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Re: The true measure of a beer
You fogot to include 'Fishbowl' (?) 

You gonna stop whinin' 'bout that beer,or you gonna send it to me?
Friends don't let friends brew drunk!
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Friends don't let friends brew drunk!
Signed:Steve Sluder.
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Re: The true measure of a beer
In some bars fishbowls and Schooner are the same?BM1 wrote:You fogot to include 'Fishbowl' (?)
Don Heisler☮
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Brewers make wort, yeast make beer, God is good.
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Brewers make wort, yeast make beer, God is good.
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Re: The true measure of a beer
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
Or the south!!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.
Don Heisler☮
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Brewers make wort, yeast make beer, God is good.
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Brewers make wort, yeast make beer, God is good.
- BM1
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Re: The true measure of a beer
Must be a local thing
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You gonna stop whinin' 'bout that beer,or you gonna send it to me?
Friends don't let friends brew drunk!
Signed:Steve Sluder.
Friends don't let friends brew drunk!
Signed:Steve Sluder.