Roll Out the Barrel: The British Pub on Film (2-DVD)

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It is useful to remember these sizes, it’s very common for landlords to talk about selling 10 barrels a week when they actually mean 10 firkins. The difference between 2880 pints and 720 pints is a lot! Roll Out the Barrel' composer Jaromír Vejvoda". Radio Prague International. 2014-04-13 . Retrieved 2022-09-23.

No.” the owner agreed. He casually touched the nearest one. Then stared at his fingers, which were now bright red. “No. We don’t have any red ones.” German accordionist Will Glahe recorded a popular cover titled "Rosamunde" in 1936; three years later, it topped the US Hit Parade as "Beer Barrel Polka" and became a popular jukebox spin throughout World War II, especially after it was covered by the Andrews Sisters. The vocal trio sang English lyrics from Lew Brown (" Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)") and Wladimir Timm about a garden party that livens up when the beer starts flowing. Their version was a #4 hit and spawned a polka craze throughout the country. Once they’d gone, Dad got one of the mad ideas he sometimes did. “Hey! Bet old Bill’s indoors now having kittens. Yeah! Yeah, I'll burst in on him. Gee him up a bit.” In the Girl Genius comic and webcomic, the titular inventor Agatha Heterodyne creates a fleet of defensive robots from carnival wagons and one from a barrel; that robot plays the polka while wielding a pair of axes. [ citation needed] I only heard about their conversation at secondhand. It seems to have gone rather upon these lines:Printed sources: - Breathnach ( Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. V), 1999; No. 111, p. 57. Harker ( 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 58, p. 18. O’Malley ( Luke O’Malley’s Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 41, p. 21. Greene, Victor. A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. University of California Press, 1992, p. 131. It is sung in the final scene of the Rumpole of the Bailey television episode, "Rumpole and the Alternative Society" (1977). [ citation needed]

In the Hogan's Heroes season 1 episode "Papa Schultz - Top Hat, White Tie and Bomb Sights", Colonel Hogan convinces the Luftwaffe that he knows the details of the Norden Bombsight and has pro-Nazi leanings. To firm up the subterfuge, Colonel Hogan describes a vacuum cleaner named "The Norden" in front of a wiretap with the prisoner crew singing "Beer Barrel Polka" loudly, interrupting lines of dialog. Commandant Klink believes the performance because the various details not covered up by singing appear to describe a bombsight. [ citation needed] As a landlord you spend many hours rolling those metal beer containers around your cellar but have you ever stopped to think about why they are that shape and size. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.330. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Joe said: “I went to meet some friends recently, and they've all got jobs, but everyone's most excited that I'm brewing and the fact that I've got a beer in Wetherspoons is the talk of the town.” It’s a double celebration for Cornwall’s largest independent brewer as they mark Cask Ale Week, celebrating the best of British Beer.

What Is Semantic Scholar?

The first point to make is that a barrel is a measure, 36 gallons of beer, not a type of container and a cask is just a name for a container the beer comes in. The following names are specific to the volume of beer in the container.