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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

All common measures to the late great, Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson.
I've only consumed from 10 out of the 18 measurements.

You fogot to include 'Fishbowl' (?)

BM1 wrote:You fogot to include 'Fishbowl' (?)

In some bars fishbowls and Schooner are the same?

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

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!!

Must be a local thing
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