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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by baron816 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:23PM (#22980068)
> My son in college...could easily take care of one before it expired. Hell, we could too.

I'm calling bullshit. Went through this in college. There's 165 12oz beers in a standard keg. If you don't refrigerate it (which you probably can't), that beer is going to go bad well within a week once it's tapped. That means to finish a keg between 2 people you're drinking 11+ beers per person every day. I mean, yeah that's doable, but if you're a normal human being, it's not that fun.

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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by xendo on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:34PM (#22980168)
11 small beers is not something I would recommend, but its fairly easy if you start in the morning. After a couple or weeks it will probably ruin your immune system which is not a great idea considering current circumstance.
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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by donogh on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:41PM (#22980243)
Irishman here. Not to further a cultural stereotype but.. I know plenty of binge drinkers who could put away 20-30 pints[1] over the course of a day-long drinking session. Get a couple of them together and they'd finish a keg that size in 2-3 days.

[1] Imperial pints: 568 ml / 19.2 US fl oz

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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by lsllc on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:41PM (#22981276)
Not if you use CO2! For less than $100 you can get a regulator, keg tap and pouring spigot -- it'll last for several weeks.

... so I've been told by a "friend".

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