Keggers.

Individual beers come in four popular sizes: The 355ml can/bottle, the 710ml tall boy, the 40 oz, and the keg. And while everyone likes being able to partake in their own drinks of choice at parties, sometimes it’s important to step up to the plate and empty a 160lb steel drum of beer.

The cost of a attending kegger is generally $10 for guys and $5 for girls and people who are bringing their own booze. While the value may seem extremely good for all you can drink beer, there are a few things you’re going to need to keep in mind.

1. The only way you’re going to get your money’s worth is to arrive early (and by early I don’t mean 10:30pm). If the kegger starts at 9:00pm, you better be there with cup in hand at 9:00pm. Will it most likely be dead at this time? Yes, of course, but you’ll be able to drink so much, so quickly that you won’t notice it and before long everyone else will start arriving.

2. If there’s fewer than 5 kegs and the whole neighborhood’s invited, plan on having somewhere else to go after 11:00pm. There’s only about 165 beers in a keg and it doesn’t take a few hundred people very long to empty one.

3. Try to make sure you know the person/people having the kegger. This will ensure prompt beer-pouring service later in the night when there are bigger crowds gathered around the kegs.

4. Try to bring your own drinking container; Be it a bigger cup, jug, pitcher, glass shoe, whatever. This will assure fewer trips back to the keg but you may only be able to get away with it if you’ve followed #3.

Happy Keg-Drinking!

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