Heineken Keg

It'll be flat in a couple of days.

Phil

Unless you're dispensing it with CO2, it will start to oxidize immediately. I notice a difference the day after opening one. Two to three days later it would be disagreeably oxidized. I suspect in thirty days it would be souring. Then again, if it takes you thirty days to drink a 5-liter minikeg (the math is easy; that's a mere ten 1/2-liter servings) perhaps you should consider buying beer in smaller containers.

It was a gift.

I just found the leaflet, and it does indeed say it can be consumed up to 30 days after opening. Some sort of patented technology.

Any time I buy one of the Party cans, I always finish it off in 2 days max because it's a fun way to dispense beer. Also, the beer seems to taste better than their bottled cousins...

I saw a big display of these things the other day (on the floor, so I'm also assuming they're not true "draft", non-pasteurized- "keep refrigerated" mini-kegs). They certainly look a lot more complicated that the various old gallon/5 liter kegs. I was surprised that the display had no literature/explanation of the system involved and the "leaflet" was stored under the blister-pack "lid", so I couldn't read it. Was there really no other explanation that "some sort of patented technology" ?

Some US breweries in the mid-60's came out with a gallon can

Falstaff once sold a true 2 gallon "mini-keg" -

And, of course, many German beers now come in 5-litre cans that are simply gravity poured.

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Sweet teats o' Christ!

Indeed, the best I've found is that from Br. Krug in Breitenlesau, sold at the bottle shop around the corner (I forget--maybe 8EUR?):

Ah, Jesus, that's not *another* wacky microbrewed brand name, is it?

A Milk Stout from Son O'God Brewpub and Chapel in Bethlehem (PA), perhaps?

Anyone got a jpeg of the label? (Let me guess, are there cartoon characters on it?)

I do like their "Hop Crucification" (IPA), tho'.