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April 11, 2006 by Dirk Watkins

Beer was not sold in bottles until 1850. Before that, beer drinkers took their buckets to the neighborhood tavern and had them filled up.

Author: Dirk Watkins

Dirk Watkins was born in Door County. He studied computer science and art at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Dirk now works as a web developer in Milwaukee programming mostly in C#, Javascript, T-SQL and the occasional regular expression. For design he likes to utilize as much standard CSS (positioning and styles) as possible. In his spare time Dirk brews beer, plays guitar, reads, listens to NPR, works on his house, and sleeps on quiet beaches.

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  1. Kevin & Michelle
    April 15, 2006 at 8:40 am

    My dad (Krystals granddad) use to tell us his Mom would give him a wooden bucket to fill at the tavern, on the way home he would hide behind the house (or barn) and drink the foam.

  2. Amanda
    April 11, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    Sweet. The bucket could serve dual purposes after you drank the bucket of beer.