当一个酒吧订单吃水啤酒通常供应,交付是一卡车的标准桶被称为“半桶”。The half-barrel is also the garden-variety keg commonly nestled in a big bucket of ice at a兄弟会聚会。它叫做half-barrel因为“桶”是一个法定计量单位用于进出口统计数据。在美国,a barrel, by definition, is 31 gallons (117 liters) of fermented beverage. So, as you might have guessed, a half-barrel holds half that amount -- somewhere between 14 and 16 gallons (53-60 liters), or by a more agreeable measure, 124 pints (117 metric pints). This is slightly larger than the 50 liter (13 gallon) standard European keg. Fill either kind of keg with beer, and you've got an object weighing about 160 pounds (73 kilograms). By contrast, an empty half keg is a lonesome but hardly insubstantial object that weighs approximately 30 pounds (14 kilograms) [source:卫兰德的作品]。
如果你在一个更小的政党,人们不跳裸体入池和喷涂剃须膏在某人的车,那么您可能会遇到一个更文明的船——第二季度桶,又称“小马桶”。It's called a pony because, like ponies, the quarter keg is small -- but it can still hold 90 pounds (41 kilograms) of beer. [sources:卫兰德的作品,词的侦探]。
稳重的晚宴,精炼和空气动力“鱼雷桶”(或“第六桶”)拥有多一点的5加仑(升)19日。和朋友一个晚上,有非常克制“mini-keg”,亲切地称为“布巴,”提供了一个愉快的10个半品脱(10度规品脱)来消磨的足球比赛。最后但不是最少是啤酒球,一个塑料抱着5加仑(升)19日在其苗条的室内[来源:Micromatic]。
有其他更神秘的船只潜伏在啤酒文化的边缘。科尼利厄斯,或者“毫无新意”桶,是基本的汽水罐在快餐店,服务器总是改变。能够持有5加仑(升)19日的液体,老掉牙的桶是很久以前被home-brewers是理想的船的目的。【来源:酿造制品]。
所有桶,无论大小或风格,必须处理相同的至关重要的问题:如何让啤酒。18新利最新登入在下一个页面上我们会讲到这个看似简单的问题呈现复杂的挑战。