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- From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
- Newsgroups: alt.beer
- Subject: Re: Ponies and Quarter Barrels
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 17:12:16 GMT
- Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
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- References: <1992Dec15.130317.1870@msus1.msus.edu> <1992Dec27.010516.2839@rosedale.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec27.010516.2839@rosedale.uucp> dcb@rosedale.uucp (Dave Breneman) writes:
- >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.
-
- Or maybe it's the left-coasters who are provincial. :-) In the
- Midwest (Wisconsin, specifically), a pony is indeed 1/8 of a barrel,
- and a quarter-barrel is, strangely enough, one quarter of a barrel.
- Haven't seen a pony lately, but my keg days are long gone.
- Then again, I just visited the Celis brewery in Austin, and the
- young lad who gave the tour said a keg was half a barrel, so I suspect
- there *are* regional differences in terminology.
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- Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
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