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

On 6 Nov 2003 03:45:53 -0800, (Chris Clancey)
wrote:

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!

Cask beer is supplied in firkins, or '9s', and kilderkins, or '18s',
holding 9 or 18 imperial gallons respectively. There are some larger
sizes but these are rarely used today. Remember that these are larger
than US gallons.

A few breweries supply in 'metric firkins' of 11 gallons - about 50
litres.

HTH, Paul
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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!


Depends if you are talking Real Ale or not.

RA typically comes in either 9 or 18 gallons.
Lagers, Guinness, etc come in a multitude of different sizes, which
are either 30, 40 or 50 or 100 Litre.


Regards,
Dave.

(Chris Clancey) wrote in message . com...
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

if you mean old-fashioned cask beer, then it's prob most often either
a firkin - 9UK-gallon (72pint/c.41-litres) or a kilderkin - 18-gallon
(144pints/c82litres).

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

For kegs I think the most common size is 50litres (tho older 11-gals
are still about IIRC)
cheers
MikeMcG

On 6 Nov 2003 06:50:37 -0800, (MikeMcG) wrote:

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

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.

It must have been great fun working as a drayman when barrels and
hogsheads were in common use. Imagine manhandling a full barrel from a
horse drawn dray! No wonder they were completely drunk most of the
time.

Best regards, Paul

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Dave Bourke wrote:

RA typically comes in either 9 or 18 gallons.
Lagers, Guinness, etc come in a multitude of different sizes, which
are either 30, 40 or 50 or 100 Litre.

anything over 30 litres is becoming rarer these days, because of safety
regulations...
20 litres are quite common.

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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

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
Paul


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"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.

Well, I found this -
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~phl..._glossary.html

Look under "cask".

Kinda knocks all the arguments together

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1 hogshead

Chris Clancey wrote:

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

Mike ) wrote:
: 1 hogshead

That's just great -- now perhaps you can explain a phrase that has
mystified me since 1967:

.....dancing through a hogshead of real fire...

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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 16:25:57 GMT, (Bill Benzel)
wrote:

Mike ) wrote:
: 1 hogshead

That's just great -- now perhaps you can explain a phrase that has
mystified me since 1967:

....dancing through a hogshead of real fire...

And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz!
--


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: 1 hogshead

That's just great -- now perhaps you can explain a phrase that has
mystified me since 1967:

....dancing through a hogshead of real fire...


Perhaps it is like jumping thru a "ring of fire," where the ring is
a barrel!? Found this:
http://www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/23722.html

Derric wrote in message . ..
: 1 hogshead

That's just great -- now perhaps you can explain a phrase that has
mystified me since 1967:

....dancing through a hogshead of real fire...


Perhaps it is like jumping thru a "ring of fire," . . .

ah . . . a belated virtual one minutes silence for the man in black's passing?

then altogether -
"Love Is A Burning Thing
And It Makes A Fiery Ring
Bound By Wild Desire
I Fell Into A Ring Of Fire

I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire
I Went Down, Down, Down
And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns
The Ring Of Fire"

A Barrel is a specific size , cask or keg is the generic for a container
of cask beer, it depends where you are drinking but Holts pubs in
Manchester are known to do 36 Gallon casks( I think this a barrel) ,
some pubs with great ranges of beers stock 9 gallons casks, This is in
the UK.
AFAIK


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writes
Derric wrote in message
...
: 1 hogshead

That's just great -- now perhaps you can explain a phrase that has
mystified me since 1967:

....dancing through a hogshead of real fire...


Perhaps it is like jumping thru a "ring of fire," . . .

ah . . . a belated virtual one minutes silence for the man in black's passing?

then altogether -
"Love Is A Burning Thing
And It Makes A Fiery Ring
Bound By Wild Desire
I Fell Into A Ring Of Fire

I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire
I Went Down, Down, Down
And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns
The Ring Of Fire"

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martyn dawe