Where can you buy full barrels? Not 1/2 keg.

Zeitgeist wrote on 19 Sep 2004:

Good luck. I can't say I've ever, ever seen a 31-gallon container of beer in any store, in any bar, at any brewery. They're far too cumbersome and unwieldy (it would weigh over 250 pounds, for starters).

Why bother? Two half-kegs do the trick, and it isn't like you'd be seeing a cost savings of any consequence. Sure it could make a really cool table for the fraternity rec room, but otherwise it's pointless.

Witzel

Damn, I was hoping some place would sell them simply to sell them. :))

I've found little information on the 'net, too... usually people just talking about full kegs which are really 1/2 a keg... Ah well, mabey one day we will be able to buy in barrels like over in Germany. :)

Most of the barrels there aren't full-sized either. Similar in size to the American kegs. Smaller in many cases, like in brewpubs where they serve straight from the barrel. As Dave pointed out, a full barrell is simply too unwieldy for transport and distribution.

-Steve

You're complaining about drinking all night for $5.00? You're lucky your standards are so low. Some of us have to pay more than that for a single beer, and that's not even for the really good stuff.

Phil

They don't sell them anymore. Think about it, a 1/2 keg weighs around 160 lbs. Would you really want to move around 320 lbs. of beer? How would you get it into your car? What would it fit in? Stick with the 1/2s and keep your back in tact.

There's one in the display/museum area up at Yuengling. Just looking at the old booger makes my lower back ache. Completely unwieldy beer container.

It seems that with two kegs at least you could get a little variety and not have 30 gallons of the same beer.

_Randal

This guy's looking for the cheapest beer possible. How much variety can you get?

Phil ====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

I have a feeling that somebody who wants a full barrel of beer each night isn't really interested in variety. Or taste.

But I could be wrong.

Something else consider is how do you keep it cold? Do they make those blue plastic Home Depot tubs that size?

Phil

====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

They rolled them. The ribs on the side of the barrel were designed to fascilitate rolling.

Well, duh. I mean, they roll 500 lb. barrels of bourbon into the warehouse. But at some point, you gotta lift the booger, if only to get it into the car, eh? They also make two-man yokes for things like that.

Well other than genuinely wondering what the answer would be my tongue was held firmly in cheek.

_Randal

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Steve Jackson vociferated:

Only if it's being transported and distributed by a bunch of girly men.

:-)

Dr H

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Lew Bryson vociferated:

True, but wouldn't it be fun to /have/ one, just so you could say that you did? :-)

Dr H

variety

tongue

LOL

The full barrel is used for the "guvmint revnooers" and output tallies not for resale, for obvious reasons. BOB