Dry gallon (exactly ). Dry gallon The dry gallon, also known as the corn gallon or grain gallon, is a historic British dry measure of volume that was used to measure grain and other dry commodities and whose earliest recorded official definition, in 1303, was the volume of 8 pounds of wheat. It is not used in the US customary system – though it implicitly exists since the US dry measures of bushel, peck, quart, and pint are still used – and is not included in the handbook that many states recognize as the authority on measurement law. The fluid gallon is
Keg UK and Ireland is quite different, whilst the couplers for kegs have been largely standardised to sankey, grundy and interbrew, a couple of others exist such as UEC and U-Type; however these are much less common. The kegs themselves are made from stainless steel or aluminium. The standard keg size is 11 imperial gallons (50 litre/88 imperial pints approx) and the vast majority of keg beers are supplied in this keg size. There are also smaller 30 liters (52.76 imperial pints) kegs usually reserved for more specialist and/or premium European beers. A number of manufacturers also produce 18 imperial gallon