keg beer

Tapped barrel ale

Keg beer is draft beer stored in and served from a keg—a pressurized metal barrel that keeps the beer carbonated and fresh.

The term distinguishes it from bottled or canned beer, and from cask-conditioned ales that undergo secondary fermentation.

At parties, keg beer flows from a tap, often into red plastic cups: We got a keg for the cookout.

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cask · party foul · malt · tap · hops · barrel · coupler · fermentation · foam · carbonation · regulator · pressure valve · half barrel · wort · pour · chug · cold one · ice cold

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packaging/container format

keg beerbottled beer

Brew sold in glass

six-pack · longneck · tallboy · stubby · growler

freshness and production scale

keg beerreal ale

Unpasteurized, naturally carbonated beer

production scale/commercialization

keg beerhomebrew

Self-made alcoholic beverage

craft beer

Family

keg, beer, kegs, beers, beery

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG