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Dye in drip trays?

Can someone please clarify the comment about using dye in drip trays? Reactor12 (talk) 09:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC) There are rumours (urban legends?) about drip tray contents being poured back into beer barrels by unscrupulous landlords, may be relevant? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.85.137.195 (talk) 11:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC) I don't know about putting it back in the barrel - that seems impossible - but when I worked as a barman back in ye olde days the owner used to make us pour the drip tray contents into glasses and have it ready to start the next punters pint. We hated to do it, but we got told off if we were caught throwing it out! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.45.254 (talk) 15:35, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

A keg was formerly something else?

Kegs are still used for many things besides beer. Pickled herring, wine, olives, industrial chemicals and many other things. I think the article too specifically focuses on beer kegs.Landroo (talk) 04:03, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Deleted improbable "history" section.

In these two edits [1], Special:Contributions/214.13.163.133 inserted a "history of the keg" which suggests that it was invented by Texan bootleggers in the 1920s, and named as an acronym of the inventor's initials.

This is nonsense; the word "keg" has described a small barrel, including one used to store beer, since at least the 17th century if not earlier, and is derived from the Old Norse word for "barrel" [2]. The user (or at least IP) has been 7 times warned and once blocked for more than a dozen acts of vandalism in the space of a few months. Several of the vandalistic edits consisting of inserting false "historical facts."

Hence, I have deleted this edit. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 16:30, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Initial description (<40L)

I can't see any real justification for the initial description qualifier "usually with a capacity of less than 40 L". This isn't supported by the rest of the article, which includes more plausible statements like "In European countries the most common keg size is 50 liters" and the most referred to size of US key is "half-barrel" which is 15.5 US gallon or 58.67 liters.

The citation on "less than 40 L" doesn't point directly to useful text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.98.81.79 (talk) 08:47, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Aluminium Kegs in the UK

The section "UK and Irish keg supply structure" refers to the increasing use of aluminium kegs. No citation that I can see. I was talking today to Liam Morrow at Morrow Brothers, a leading keg supply company in the UK (http://www.morrow-brothers.co.uk/) and he was telling me the exact opposite. He told me that aliminium kegs was a thing of the past, that production stopped around 15 years ago. Downsides were that they needed to be coated on the inside to be suitable as a beer container (so if the keg got dented this coating was supposed to be checked), plus metal thieves would steal them and melt them down! He says that most kegs made today are stainless steel, which has neither of these problems.

I'm the one who made the last comment in this section. I've gone ahead and removed the unsupported assertion that aluminium is being increasingly used to make beer kegs. At the same time I removed the assertion that aluminium kegs are more lightweight: if you have a stronger material you make it thinner, and I have not felt any obvious weight difference. My wording is intended to be neutral— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.45.254 (talk) 15:47, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Partial paragraph duplication at "There are two different types of tapping equipment that are available …"

Looks like some copy-pasta issues with the paragraph that starts off "There are two different types of tapping equipment that are available …".

Probably best to resolve it via a side-by-side diff of the two portions of the paragraph, but requires someone with more knowledge of the topic to resolve any factual discrepancies and output a single clean paragraph.

107.203.255.170 (talk) 20:28, 3 May 2021 (UTC) VirtualJMills