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Old 01-28-2009, 11:39 AM   #39 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kfisherx View Post
LOL! I have never heard of a sixtel but I can imagine how tiny that is. No. Def a half here.
It is. A sixtel = 1/6 of a barrel and holds just over 5 gallons of your favorite beer mmmm beer... (or 1/3 of the size of a 1/2 barrel, which holds 15.5 gallons). Its more vernacular names are the torpedo or the log, since that's what it resembles (long and cylindrical).
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