As I was walking through River North recently I saw the remains of a pony keg on a porch and it brought back some foggy memories. At college for whatever reason we started to figure that if we had 4 or so people it made sense to just get a pony keg (half keg) rather than to drag around cases of beer. I can't verify if we really drained it down to the end but I think we certainly dented it. Oh and this is a Friday afternoon before we went out.
Thanks to the ol' Intertubes you can instantly look up the answer to "how many beers are in a pony keg" without having to do any math. And the answer is...
A "quarter barrel" or Pony Keg is about 7.5 US gallons (Pony kegs are half the normal sized beer keg and a quarter of a barrel), and will provide approximately 80 12 oz. glasses or beer mug of your favorite beer.OK, that seems about right for back in the day, 10-15 beers / person to prep on going out to drink more. 20 if there are 4 and it is drunk to the bone but that probably wasn't usually the case we'd get distracted and wander out.
And the other memory is sitting on the deck with one speaker outside and one speaker inside and getting the "one channel" version of stuff like AC/DC. Or you'd just hear the high hat cymbal "tish, tish, tish" (and then weird stuff) for "Back in Black". That means just rhythm guitar, for example. Pretty annoying and funny.
2 comments:
HAHA this is awesome. Yes the rule of thumb especially during senior year was to hit the pony keg for economic reasons if the gathering hit the magic number of 4. If we expected people later we would just get the full keg. If I recall correctly the "high end" Miller products were around $30/keg back then - you can see the savings and even better if you suffer through something of less "quality" such as Old Style or whatever was on sale.
Wow I am amazed that you remember the one speaker on the deck deal too, I was shocked to recall that one.
I think $30 is about right on pricing and this picture definitely brought back thoughts of fun times, although I don't really remember why only one speaker made it out on the porch and not two. I never considered whether the neighbors liked hearing one speaker AC/DC (left channel?) until whenever in the AM but then again no one cared about that sort of stuff back then.
Not shown - Burger King we used to visit 3 times in the same day (pre drinking, while drinking, post drinking). That place was vile.
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