"more plastic casks around than wooden ones. Plastic casks are increasing in popularity because they are cheaper to buy and lighter to carry. Though they don't last as long, they are also less likely to be stolen as they have no melt-down value. Beer casks come in a number of sizes, but by far the most common in the pub trade are those of 9 gallons (72 pints or roughly 41 litres) which is known as a Firkin and 18 gallons (144 pints or roughly 83 litres) known as a Kilderkin. (N.B. These are imperial gallons, equal to 1.201 US"
"For CAMRA internal accounting, all are calculated in kilderkins. A kilderkin is a 144 pint container but there is not 144 pints of cask conditioned consumable beer in a kilderkin (see Firkins below for explaination). The ale or beer firkin (from Middle Dutch meaning ""fourth"") is a quarter of an ale or beer barrel or half a kilderkin. This unit is much smaller than the wine firkin. Casks in this size (themselves called firkins) are the most common container for cask ale. A pin is equal to half a firkin (). Plastic versions of these casks are known as ""polypins"""
"Firkin (unit) A firkin is a unit of volume or mass used in several situations. Its etymology is likely to be from the Middle English ""ferdekyn"", probably from the Middle Dutch diminutive of vierde ‘fourth’ (a firkin originally contained a quarter of a barrel). A firkin is an American unit of dry measure. 1 firkin = 9 US gallons = 34 litres. A firkin was a British unit for the sale of butter and cheese. 1 firkin = 56 pounds = 25 kilograms A firkin is also a British unit for the sale of beer. It is one quarter of"
"a barrel and its value depends on the current size of a barrel, but at present: 1 firkin = 0.25 barrel = 9 imperial gallons = 10.8 U.S. gallons = 41 litres Firkin (unit) A firkin is a unit of volume or mass used in several situations. Its etymology is likely to be from the Middle English ""ferdekyn"", probably from the Middle Dutch diminutive of vierde ‘fourth’ (a firkin originally contained a quarter of a barrel). A firkin is an American unit of dry measure. 1 firkin = 9 US gallons = 34 litres. A firkin was a British unit"
"Firkin Brewery The Firkin Brewery was a chain of pubs in the United Kingdom. The original UK chain is now defunct, but a number of pubs operate under the Firkin name in other countries. The chain took its name from the firkin, an old English unit of volume. The chain was established in 1979 by David Bruce as Bruce's Brewery, the Firkin Brewery grew as a chain of mostly brewpubs offering cask ale. It was acquired by Midsummer Leisure in 1988, Stakis Leisure in 1990 and then by Allied Domecq in 1991; by 1995 the chain had 44 pubs, 19"
"was equal to two kilderkins or of a beer or ale hogshead. This is somewhat larger than the wine barrel. The kilderkin (from the Dutch for ""small cask"") is equal to half a barrel or two firkins. The kilderkin is still currently used. It is the unit of choice of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, for calculating beer quantities for beer festivals in the UK. Ales are usually delivered in firkins, cider and other drinks are usually in boxes, bottles or other containers measured in gallons or litres, and all (except wine) are sold in pints or parts thereof."
"every 6 months, keeping the overall number of open pubs around 15. Typically the demographic ranges from parents with children during the day to an older drinking crowd in the evenings and late night. Although the menu is somewhat limited, the food is on pace with other more well known bar & grill restaurants. A number of independent English-style pubs in Australia use ""Firkin"" in their names, such as the Firkin and Hound in Alice Springs. Firkin Brewery The Firkin Brewery was a chain of pubs in the United Kingdom. The original UK chain is now defunct, but a number"
"chain (fifteen pubs) in 1991; Allied Lyons became Allied Domecq in 1994. In 1996 Allied Domecq opened 40 sites, taking the number of Firkin pubs to 160, turning over £100m. The chain would grow to 170 sites under a succession of owners until it was bought by Punch Taverns in 1999 and disbanded. Many former Firkins became O'Neill's, owned by Mitchells & Butlers, and have a similar sparse décor to the original Firkin pubs. The Firkin chain had a steep decline after October 1999, when all on-site brewing was discontinued. The chain had been effectively bought by Bass Brewery (which"
"York"". By 1986 he had six Firkin pubs and ten by 1988, turning over £3m; at the time Britain had 75,000 pubs. The pubs sold their own beer, Dogbolter. Each pub cost around £250,000. The Firkin motto was ""Usque ad Mortem Bibendum."" In February 1988 he put his eleven Firkin pubs up for sale, selling them for £6.6m in May 1988 to Midsummer Leisure, who were taken over by European Leisure. After the sale the pubs were run under the company Bruce's Brewery. In July 1990, European Leisure put the 18 pubs up for sale. Allied Lyons bought the Firkin"
"in Whitby, Ontario), and many Firkin Group pubs in fact share their names with former UK Firkin Brewery pubs. In the United States, the franchise pubs are named with ""Firkin"" first, as in ""The Firkin & Fox"" as opposed to ""The Fox & Firkin"". The pub chain once credited itself as being the ""largest and fastest growing"" group of pubs in North America. Lately the claim is ""largest & most dominant chain of traditional English pubs"" in North America. About 10 pubs have closed out of the about 25 pubs that have opened since 2005. New pubs have opened about"
"to Stonegate Pub Company in 2010. Some of the Punch Taverns-owned Firkins were rebranded as Mr Q's or Bar Room Bar pubs. A small handful of establishments still retain the Firkin branding, distinctive because they all followed the same naming convention. The format was always ""The ---- and Firkin"", where ---- was a word, beginning with either ""F"" or ""Ph"", which had some connection to the pub building or to the local area. The Firkin Brewery also gave out T-shirts for anyone who managed at least 12 pubs in the Firkin Crawl. A ""passport"", issued by the Brewery, would be"
"has grown significantly. The location attracts a lot more passing trade than the football ground. The festival is now the second largest in country in terms of visitors (behind the Great British Beer Festival). In 2006 it had over 170 real ales, 50 ciders and perries as well as a large range of foreign beers and country wines. 2007 was another record-breaking year, with 30,384 visitors, who drank 494 kilderkins (about 70,000 pints) of beer and 194 tubs (about 7,700 pints) of cider and perry. The 39th festival in 2012 set another new record, with around 41,000 visitors drinking around"
"doorways. The gallery was held up by a series of cast iron columns with decorative capitals, and was the only 19th-century feature to survive during the Elim congregation's occupancy. The pulpit had stood in the centre of three arches in the north wall. Pews were arranged in a semicircle facing it. After the Elim congregation vacated the building, it was converted into a large pub, the Font & Firkin—part of the former Firkin Brewery chain. This was later disestablished, all of its pubs were sold and all in-pub brewing was stopped; the Font & Firkin was the last ex-Firkin pub"
"filled with a stamp from each pub visited, and public transport directions to the nearest pub in the crawl would also be in the ""passport"". Although there was no stipulation in the rules that the 12 pubs had to be completed on the same day, this was often the goal of participants. Firkin pubs in Canada and the United States operate under the Firkin Group of Pubs franchise, a chain of English theme pubs founded in southern Ontario in 1987. The naming scheme for the pubs is similar to that of the UK chain (for example, ""The Crown and Firkin"","
"though adaptations such as fruits and coffee beans amongst others have also been used. The alcohol in the beer lifts oils off the raw hops and imparts even more hop flavor and aroma to beers that were already hoppy to begin with. The 75 Minute IPA was developed in 2008, and has been produced in very limited quantities, and typically distributed to vendors in firkins. The beer—nicknamed ""Johnny Cask"" and featuring a mascot resembling a young Johnny Cash tapping a firkin with a mallet—is made from a mixture of the 60 and 90 Minutes IPAs, and undergoes a separate cask"
"pints. These pints are divided into two cups (though the imperial cup is rarely used now), which in turn are divided into two gills (gills are also rarely used). Thus a gallon is equal to four quarts, eight pints, sixteen cups or thirty-two gills. The imperial gill is further divided into five fluid ounces, whereas the US gill is divided into four fluid ounces. Thus an imperial fluid ounce is of an imperial pint or of an imperial gallon, while a US fluid ounce is of a US pint or of a US gallon. The imperial gallon, quart, pint, cup"
"back of the pub, were bought out by larger breweries and ceased brewing on the premises. By the mid-1970s only four brewpubs remained, All Nations, The Old Swan, the Three Tuns and the Blue Anchor. Brewpubs subsequently resurged, particularly with the rise of the Firkin pub chain, most of whose pubs brewed on the premises, running to over one hundred at peak. However, that chain was sold and eventually its pubs ceased brewing their own beer. The resulting decline in brewpubs was something of a boon to other forms of microbrewing, as it led to an availability of trained craft"
"of Scotland of 1617, the commissioners' firlot of Linlithgow was made the standard for the whole of Scotland, but, in fact, two units were defined for different commodities. The first, which “contained 21 pints and a mutchkin of the water of Leith,” (approximately 35 litres) was for wheat, pease, beans, rye, and white salt, commodities which had been sold by striken, or level measure. The second firlot, which contained 31 pints of water, about 50 litres, was for oats, barley and malt, which had been sold by heaped measure. The pint mentioned is the Scottish Sterling jug. The measure became"
"with food and decor to match, Belgian and Bavarian themes being the most common. In 1979, Tim Martin opened the first Wetherspoons pub, in Muswell Hill, north London. This was the basis of a national chain of pubs, (over 900 as of 2016) which were to prove influential on the English beer scene, because of their low prices, large premises, and championing of cask ale. Also in 1979 David Bruce established the first ""Firkin"" brewpub. The Firkin chain consisted of pubs offering cask ale brewed on the premises, or at another brewpub in the chain. The chain expanded to over"
"of which brewed beer on site. In 1999, Punch Taverns bought the entire chain and the rights to the Firkin brand, and then sold 110 of the pubs to Bass, leaving 60 Firkin pubs under Punch ownership. The brewery side of the chain was wound up, and in March 2001 Punch announced that the Firkin brand was to be discontinued. After several corporate restructurings, most of the Bass sites ended up in the Mitchells and Butlers pub company formed in 2003. Many have been rebranded as O'Neill's, Scream, or Goose pubs; the Scream and Goose sites were among those sold"
"Latin ""pincta"" meaning ""painted"", for marks painted on the side of a container to show capacity. In the United States, the liquid pint is legally defined as one-eighth of a liquid gallon of precisely 231 cubic inches. In the United States, the dry pint is one-eighth of a dry gallon. The United States dry pint is equal to one-eighth of a United States dry gallon. It is used in the United States, but is not as common as the liquid pint. A now-obsolete unit of measurement in Scotland known as the ""Scottish pint"" or ""joug"" equals three imperial pints. It"
"standard rulings. Starting in 2006, the NSAI ""pint"" mark, a circle featuring two wavy lines, between which ""PINT"" is written, with a year mark (last two digits), and a three digit batch code either side; has begun to be phased out with a European standard ""PINT""/CE logo stamp . Smaller Pint glasses have been used in pubs and nightclubs though. In Israel, although officially defined as 568ml, pubs use the term rather arbitrarily and the ""pints"" served constitute a wide range of volumes (360ml–440ml). In the past, the custom was to serve beer in 330ml or 500ml in the original"
"560 kilderkins (80,000 pints) of beer and 330 tubs (13,000 pints) of cider. The 43rd festival in 2016 was also a record year with around 41,000 visitors drinking 86,000 pints of beer, 13,000 pints of cider, 9,300 pints of foreign beer and 1,600 bottles of wine and mead. The beer festival is also famous for its cheese stall which, unlike many food stalls at beer festivals, is run by the CAMRA branch themselves. The stall sells a wide range of traditional cheeses and breads as well as olives, pickled eggs, pork pies, scotch eggs, etc. One tonne of cheese was"
"beer manufacture's glass. After the reform in the alcohol taxes in July 2012 the tax rate doubled. Each liter of beer is charged with 4.2nis tax. In order to avoid raising prices at the pubs, and as a result, the loss of customers, a new ""magic"" appeared, called ""pint"". The customers don't really know the vague term of a pint, and it varies from place to place. Some of the places didn't even change the menu, and it's served as 500 ml. In the United States, a pint is 16 US fluid ounces (473 mL). However, the typical conical ""pint"""
"Pint The pint (, ; symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as ""p"") is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is traditionally one-eighth of a gallon. The British imperial pint is about 20% larger than the American pint because the two systems are defined differently. Almost all other countries have standardized on the metric system, so the size of what may be called a pint varies depending on local custom. The imperial pint (≈ 568 ml) is used in the United Kingdom and Ireland and to"
"in height. Older can numbers are often expressed as single digits, their contents being calculated for room-temperature water as approximately eleven ounces (#1 ""picnic"" can), twenty ounces (#2), thirty-two ounces (#3) fifty-eight ounces (#5) and one-hundred-ten ounces (#10 ""coffee"" can). In parts of the world using the metric system, tins are made in 250, 500, 750 mL (millilitre) and 1 L (litre) sizes (250 mL is approximately 1 cup or 8 ounces). Cans imported from the USA often have odd sizes such as 3.8 L (1 US gallon), 1.9 L (1/2 US gallon), and 946 mL (2 US pints /"
"installed, increasing yield by 220% (a total output of 80 barrels per week). The Frilsham plant ceased operations in April 2007. In 2005, the brewery acquired their first pub, the Rising Sun at Stockcross. In 2007, the pub won West Berkshire CAMRA's pub of the year award. David Bruce, founder of the Firkin pub chain, became a director in 2013 and is chairman of the company. The company produces a range of beers, including Maggs Magnificent Mild. The company has received a number of SIBA and CAMRA local beer festival awards. West Berkshire Brewery West Berkshire Brewery is a microbrewery"
"in two sizes, colloquially known as ""quarts"" and ""pints"". They were 22 and 12 imperial ounces (625 and 341 ml), respectively, which were much smaller than the British units. Some provinces banned the sale of beer in the larger bottle. For example, in Ontario in the 1950s only the smaller size could be sold, but in Quebec both sizes were about equally common. The numerous incompatibilities between traditional Canadian, British, French, and American unit systems was one of the driving forces behind metrication in Canada. Draft beer in Canada, when advertised as a ""pint"", is legally required to be 568"
"splashed with a sudden rush of beer towards the end of the feat. The fastest drinking of a yard of ale (1.42 litres) in the ""Guinness Book of Records"" is five seconds. The former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke once held the world record for drinking a yard. Beer is now generally sold in pint and half-pint glasses (Half-pint glasses are generally smaller versions of pint glasses.). The common shapes of pint glass are: The most celebrated English hop varieties are Fuggles and Goldings, although commercial pressures may incline brewers to use higher-yielding modern varieties. Modern brewers also sometimes make"
"Gin bucket A gin bucket is an American mixed drink consisting of gin and typically Fresca placed in a suitably sized bucket, with ice and chopped fruit added. Traditionally, the gin is drunk by means of a turkey baster, eliminating the need for glasses. The gin bucket is an Indiana University tailgating tradition. A specially themed gin bucket is used during the annual Indiana v. Purdue football game, Old Oaken Bucket, using a wooden bucket, appropriately called the ""Old Oaken Bucket O'Gin."" Indiana has served as a spawning spot for the Gin Bucket which has since been brought to many"
"ounces). With the allowed margin of error of 0.5 fluid ounces, a ""pint"" which is less than 554 ml of beer is an offence, though - to the detriment of consumers - this regulation is often violated and rarely enforced. In several provinces, draft beer can also be purchased by individuals in kegs. In Ontario, for example, The Beer Store offers 70 different brands in three keg sizes, 20 liters, 30 liters and 58.6 liters. Prior to 1961, Canadian beer was sold, and served, in two sizes, colloquially known as ""quarts"" and ""pints"", or ""large"" and ""small"". They were 22"
"(approximately 82 liters/144 imperial pints) and 22 imperial gallon (approximately 100 liters/172 imperial pints) kegs, however owing to their size they are not so popular as manual handling is seen by some to be difficult, and as a result they tend to be used only for large-scale events and bars with high throughput. For bars that sell an excessive volume of beer there is the 36 imperial gallon (150 liter/260 imperial pint) keg, however due to its very large size few people can move them making it an impractical choice. In the U.S. as of 2005, there are 21 states"
"de bière"". In Flanders, the word ""pintje"", meaning 'little pint', refers only to a 250 ml glass of lager. Some West- and East-Flemish dialects use it as a word for beaker. The equivalent word in German, ""Pintchen"", refers to a glass of a third of a litre in Cologne and the Rhineland. In South Australia, ordering ""a pint of beer"" results in 425 ml (15 fl oz) being served. Customers must specifically request ""an Imperial pint of beer"" to get 570 ml (20 fl oz). Australians from other states often contest the size of their beers in Adelaide. One US"