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a steel heart that beats foam, dispensing courage one questionable decision at a time
means A small barrel, typically made of metal or wood, used to store and dispense liquids — most famously beer.
from From Middle English 'cag,' borrowed from Old Norse 'kaggi,' meaning a cask or small barrel. The Norse seafarers who gave English so much of its salt-and-storage vocabulary likely handed this one over too; the exact older roots beyond Old Norse are uncertain. The 'cag' spelling lingered for centuries before softening into the modern 'keg.'
- capacity
- Standard half-barrel holds about 165 twelve-ounce beers
- the float
- Buoyancy makes empties feel deceptively, dangerously light
- pressure
- Pressurized CO2 pushes beer up the tap line
- keg stands
- Inversion drinking turned a container into a competition
- deposit
- That refundable fee fuels countless party returns
oktoberfest keg tapping — munich's annual festival opens with the mayor tapping the first keg of beer each september
heineken keg size 20l — standard commercial keg holding 20 liters, most common size in european bars
miller high life keg — american domestic beer brand famous for selling kegs since 1905