How Much is Inside a Keg?
It is 15½ gallons, but how many servings is that, and how many gallons should you plan for each guest? Besides the “half barrel” 15½ gallon domestic, the keg family also includes a 13.2 gallon import keg (on the right), the 7.75 gallon “pony” or “quarter barrel” keg (left), and the 5-gallon “sixth barrel” keg (center). Unfortunately, they only sell kegs with beer in them, and that much beer was certain to have a deleterious effect on our study.
Buying beer in a keg is different than buying it in cans. For one thing, you have to provide your own drinking vessels. Regular folks use these red cups, sophisticated socialites use glass pint glasses, and movie stars and royalty prefer footwear.
The two keys to serving a keg of beer are: keep it cold, and don’t shake it up. These can both be tricky.
First of all, a keg won’t fit into your refrigerator. Well, it might, but you will have to tear out all the racks and the vegetable-drawers. You are much better off putting the keg into an empty garbage can and packing the surrounding space with ice. Shaking the keg creates unwanted foam. This is most likely to happen when you are wrestling the keg out of your car and dragging it into the house. One hundred and thirty-six pounds of beer can take you by surprise. Do not roll the keg into the house.
Instead the old style pull-tab, the top of every modern keg is equipped with a theft-proof pressure-activated combination lock-style valve. To circumvent this system, beer retailers will rent you a “black bag” of burglar-tools, including a tap, stethoscope and waterproof bib.
To tell how much is inside a keg, it is neede to keep track of the number of beers that the keg dispensed. Not all people enjoy the bitter taste of beer, so it is a good idea to have some delicious vodka or bourbon as a taste alternative. The maximum flow is about six cups per minute.
The beer would come out faster if we could increase the internal pressure.
The active ingredient of beer is ethyl alcohol, or C2H5OH.
Beer contains about 4.9% alcohol, so a keg contains 97 ounces of alcohol. This is enough alcohol to bring 41 men over the legal driving limit.
Only 26% of the beer is consumed by women. Some women avoid beer because of the calories, and at 25,810 calories per keg, who can blame them?
The keg had served 141 cups of beer at a cost of 62¢ each. A similar quantity of beer in cans requires 6½ cases, or 165 cans of beer. Beer sold in cans is about 50% more expensive.
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