What is the weigh of draft beer?

Why not buy a 16oz. can and do the math.

In case you need help with the math, a gallon is 128 oz. or 8-16oz. cans.

It's in 1/2 barrel kegs in a bar and I want to do inventory by weight. If I know the weight I can convert it fluid ounces (right, 1 gal = 16 fl oz) which is how I keep inventory.

Po>Why not buy a 16oz. can and do the math.

Like the guy said, it's probably easier to weigh a known amount on your scale (since it's going to have to be a pretty accurate scale) and work it out from there. For rough, I figure one oz. weight to one fl. oz., one of the few SAE conversions that actually works. At least, for water. Beer is slightly less...which is why you'd be best off weighing it. IMO, YMMV.

A gallon is 64 fl oz. A pint is 16 fl.oz. A pint is a pound the world around.

Add some for the packaging, and remember you can never quite squeeze all the liquid out of a keg.

--NPD

I am using 128 fl oz to the gallon (not 16 as I wrote). Is 128 wrong?

I have noted your comment that some beer stays in the keg.

Pointer

I agree that 1 oz weight equals 1 oz fluid or close enough.

Po>> It's in 1/2 barrel kegs in a bar and I want to do inventory by weight.

LOL!

Only in the US my friend.

Elsewhere 1 pint = 20 fl. oz

1 gallon = 8 pints = 10 pounds

I agree that 1 pint = 20 fl oz and 8 pints make a gallon. Therefore 1 gallon has 160 fl oz (20 X 8).

However, I think 1 gallon weigh has 128 fl oz and there is about 16 fl oz to 1 oz in weight. So 128 / 16 equals 8.0 pounds unless you're on Jupiter where the gravity is a bit more.

Po>

I think it must be because gravity is a bit less in the USA than the rest of the planet, so that is why most space missions are launched from there as well.

The difference in the weight of the beer, 8 pounds vs. 10, is that the former is, of course, Bud Light.

Okay, then a half-barrel keg's worth of beer would weigh 1984 oz., or 124 lbs....but Del Strandburg at Spartanburg Stainless (where they make the kegs that A-B uses) told me that the full weight of a 1/2 bbl. keg of beer (beer weight plus keg weight) is 162 lbs., and I don't think the empty keg weighs

38 lbs. So now I'm not sure what's going on here.

Okay, let's take it metric. For a 50 liter keg of beer at a final gravity of

1.012, the beer weighs 50.6 kilos. That same 50 liter keg full of WATER at a gravity of 1 weighs 50 kilos. So you'd need to know the final gravity of the beer to be really precise...and the weight of the empty (truly empty) keg.

Lew

Back in days when I went to school a quart was 32 oz. (2 16oz. pints) and 4 quarts made a gallon...32*48

Maybe things have changed since then.

Are there still only 50 states or is it up to 52 now?

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54, counting Aghanistan and Iraq Joris

Well, you know...I was just wondering....I know a barrel of beer is 31 gallons of beer. But is that a U.S gallon made up of 8 pints (128 oz.) or is it an imperial gallon made of 8 imperial pints (160 oz.)? Anyone know FOR SURE? Please, guys...I'm perfectly capable of my own speculation! Does anyone actually KNOW?

Just answered my own question: the 1/2 bbl. kegs made by Spartanburg Stainless are 58.666 liters, which makes a full barrel 117.33 liters, or 31 U.S. gallons. Okay, settled.

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Has anybody of you considered the advantages of going metrical? SI? JorisP

It was considered in the seventies, but we got distracted by some shiny things and disregarded it.

Phil

Of course, you big bing-bong, but what am I going to do about it? Insist that the gas station measure MY gas in liters? Tell the deli counter guy that he's weighing kilos for me today? Only buy beer that comes in 50 liter kegs? "The metric system" is a deadly issue in American politics. I could go metric tomorrow...but what would it get me? Nothing. The rest of the country's got their head up their SAE ass.

Hey, don't include me in that "rest of the country" stuff. I'm with ya bud. Let's go metric tomorrow. :-) Oh, wait, we did that already...

Hey, it's dark in here! :-)

-Howard