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- From: dcb@rosedale.uucp (Dave Breneman)
- Subject: Re: Ponies and Quarter Barrels
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.010516.2839@rosedale.uucp>
- Organization: The Spud Goodman Show
- References: <1992Dec15.130317.1870@msus1.msus.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:05:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.130317.1870@msus1.msus.edu> mdempsey@msus1.msus.edu writes:
- >Whoops, I screwed up. As has been noted, a full barrel is 31 not 33 gallons
- >(just wishing for a few extra glasses I guess) as I stated earlier. However
- >everything else ads up a 'sixteen' is a half-barrel, an 'eight' is a quarter
- >barrel. Some people seem to think a quarter-barrel and a pony are the same
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >thing. A pony is traditionally 1/8 of a barrel or 3.875 gallons.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
-
- Sorry to tell you, your East Coast Provincialism is showing. :-)
- In this part of the country (the Northwest), a pony keg is and always
- has been 1/4 barrel. I've never even heard of this 1/8-barrel keg you
- mention before. The only other size I'm familiar with is the 5-liter
- DIN "picnic" keg (which as far as I know no US brewer uses).
-
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