"Paul King" wrote in message ...
"Chris Clancey" wrote in message
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Hello,

I'd like to know the gallon capacity of a standard beer barrel that
pubs get in the UK. If anyone could help, it would be appreciated!

Chris

MikeMcG wrote:
But the term 'barrel' to UK brewers & publicans refers specifically
to
a quantity of 36-gallons.

Paul Sherwin wrote
True, but the British general public uses the term 'barrel' to
describe any draught beer container, cask or keg, any size - much as
in the US I suspect.

erm, yes, that's why I wrote
"'barrel' to brewers & publicans refers to ... 36 gallons"
i.e. I was trying to imply that for beer 'barrel' has both a common
usage (any sized draught beer container) and a technical one (a
quantity of beer)

A "proper" standard UK barrel holds 36 gallons. The next size up, a
Hogshead, holds 56 gallons! The largest is a Butt - 100 gallons!
HTH

I thought for beer these were all multiples of 9gal?(*)
i.e. (the ones alredy mentioned) plus Hogshead=54gal, Puncheon=72gal,
Butt=108gal, Tun=216gal?

(*)apart from the 4.5gal 'pin')

cheers
MikeMcG

BTW apologies for repeating what everyone else said - one of the
vagaries of readng & posting via google's slow usenet service.