Who went to keg parties in your younger days?

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Spazecowboy@reddit

Best tasting beer came from a cold keg with friends or people who are future friends.

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So much this. Beer always tasted so much better out of a keg. My buddy's dad got him an ice cold keg of Iron City for his 16th birthday party (usually we settled for cheap stuff like Old Milwaukee or Strohs) and man that stuff was like the nectar of the gods.

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imtoowhiteandnerdy@reddit

This is one of the things I miss about the '80s. I keep wondering to myself "Self? does this generation just not throw parties like we did when we were young, or am I just so old that I don't get invited to parties anymore?" ;-)

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Zipstser257@reddit

Keggers were the BEST, especially if someone busted out a beer bong to take a break from the red plastic cups. God I miss those days!!!

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AldruhnHobo@reddit

Why do they not have them anymore?

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bingcognito@reddit

Smartphones and zero tolerance laws would be my guess.

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HoraceBenbow@reddit

In my college dorm we would start "organizing" around 5 pm. This would involve someone going around the rooms collecting $1 for the night's keg party. There was 300 students living in it so we had no problem getting enough for a $50 keg (this is the mid 90s).

We had a string of 63 nights in a row with a keg in the building. And yes, I did keg stands. One of my poorest moments is when a bunch of frat guys convinced me to do a keg stand at 3pm after a night of solid drinking.

I got up, started chugging, then puked on the keg.

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bingcognito@reddit

Never listen to the frat guys bro.

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Motor_Struggle_3605@reddit

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BMisterGenX@reddit

I don't know why having a keg made it seem so much more fun than just having beer in cans or bottles

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

Pony kegs and Oly Balls

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picasso-enjoyer@reddit

Grew up in NY so none.

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tandem_kayak@reddit

Why? Do they not use kegs there?

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picasso-enjoyer@reddit

They use kegs there. I spent a lot of time going to and working bars and generally only saw kegs in bars and restaurants. Other reasons too. From a space perspective, its just not practical, they’d take up most of bathrooms or kitchens. Everyone would just bring a 6. 40s were the way to go. Disgusting as they were. Great for transporting on foot, cheap, nimble. 40s in an apartment, on a stoop. Parties were smaller because of smaller spaces. Lack of availability. No frat house culture. Neighbors and doormen could spot kegs easily which would cause drama. Lots of reasons.

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vagabondoer@reddit

40s haha some nasty drinks for sure me and my friends got into ironically drinking Cool Colt methylated malt liquor for way too long.

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missbethd@reddit

who didn’t?

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Does a bear shit in the woods?

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imdugud777@reddit

I was the guy that tapped the keg because nobody knew how.

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Own_Fruit_8115@reddit

who didn’t?

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Pretend_Safety@reddit

Anyone remember the Coors Party Balls?

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jondes99@reddit

And smuggling them in to your dorm in a laundry basket? Nope.

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fisherpr@reddit

…duffel bag, on trap day.

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qpv@reddit

We sure did. Many a bush party

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DeaddyRuxpin@reddit

My oldest siblings were legally allowed to drink at 18. They had keg parties their senior year in high school. I was partying with them at 8 years old.

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Soft_Perspective_356@reddit

The guy who owned a tap was always the star

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sunqueen73@reddit

No. There was definitely a difference between urban and suburban party styles. We had a lot of weed, though. More hard liquor than beer served.

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HighSeasArchivist@reddit

I think keg parties died alongside senior beach trips. Constant video recording would definitely change how I acted if I was in my teens right now.

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BlmgtnIN@reddit

We had a keg war at one party. Two teams, two kegs, team that finished last buys the next keg. Good times.

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Apprehensive_Ant4596@reddit

Haha…that’s awesome. When it got close to floating, we’d play “kill the keg”. You form a line and fill your cup and go to the back. If you weren’t done when you got back to the front you were out. Last one in line wins. Worked every time

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Apprehensive_Ant4596@reddit

I used to love keggers. A backwoods lot, a bonfire and word of mouth. You’d make a lot of friends and have s great time no matter what. We always had each others backs and made sure everyone got home safe. Some of the best times ever

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formercotsachick@reddit

In college it was like every weekend. Dancing to It Takes Two and Come Baby Come with my friends and flirting with boys leading to the occasional hookup. The beer was usually Milwaukee's Best, which we called Milwaukee's Beast. There were also kamikaze and/or jello shots for 50 cents each at our preferred frat house.

I met my husband at one and we're happily married 35 years later lol.

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OGyodacaster@reddit

I hosted keg parties in the 90’s. We’d get one, charge $5 a person and when it was almost empty, go get another with the money we made

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IntellectAndEnergy@reddit

I was shocked to recently find out that keg parties and house parties at college are really no longer a thing. Too bad, great times.

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AZPeakBagger@reddit

My brother is a recently retired cop. Said that the last 80’s style house party or outdoor keg party that he busted up was 15 years ago. His patrol area was the same part of town he grew up in and he knows every spot where kids can hide. The consequences of being a minor in possession is a lot harsher now. When he started all he would do is give kids a stern lecture and chase them off. At the end if he found a kid he was forced to write them a very expensive ticket.

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Karadek99@reddit

Yep!

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bigmedallas@reddit

Also I still have good memories of party balls, does anyone remember them costing like 15 bucks? I recently found my keg tap.

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bigmedallas@reddit

I'm 6' 4" and built like a brick 5hit house so I'm college I would always go on the beer runs to pick up the keg. On my 21st birthday I went in to get 2 kegs and the guy behind the counter said someone's having a party, I said yes I turn 21 today to which he replied you've been buying beer here for 2 years, I smiled and said I turned 23 today.

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CaydeTheCat@reddit

I lived off campus my last two years. My school was very aggressive about alcohol on campus so my place was where the keg parties were held. Fun times.

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

Story time! Way back in The Day, I got a “911” page from a friend of mine (yes, on a PAGER, I told you this was a long time ago) on a Sunday morning. One of our mutual friends was looking to get rid of a roughly half-full keg IMMEDIATELY because his parents were due home (I was 19 and this particular friend was a couple years younger, still in high school)

Obviously I said hell yes, immediately picked him up & we went to retrieve the keg. Went in to the trunk of my hatchback, tap still installed.

Enterprising lads that we were, we proceeded to line my trunk in several layers of contractor bags and duct tape; then we bought about 50 pounds of ice. Then, because my car had split fold-down seats in the back, we figured out we had JUST enough of a gap to run the tap hose between the seats and into the passenger cabin.

We proceeded to recruit a third friend to be the official “backseat bartender”, and then spent two days (holiday weekend) driving around visiting everybody we knew, doing mobile draft beer delivery service for $1 a draft!

Didn’t make us rich but it absolutely made us LEGENDARY for a week or two.

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spikerlj@reddit

So many keg parties from college and from us getting a few dollars together once we were "adults". Some of my best blackout memories (filled in days later from bystanders) are from those.

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Out_of_Darkness_mc@reddit

We loved keg parties! This is so extra wrong but one night, we put one in the back of a Dodge Horizon and traveled around with and tapped it a local convenience store, right in the middle of town!

I don’t drink much these days and while I know we were wild, reckless and doing dangerous shit, I don’t regret a thing!

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mikeumm@reddit

I met my first girlfriend because she had the nights recond on the keg stand and I bested her.

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MembershipPretty7595@reddit

Took my keg tap to college. Was a popular guy. Weird thing. 1/4 keg was $18 and a 1/2 keg was $19. We weren’t math majors but duhhh. My buddy could also carry a half keg up three flights of stairs like it was a 12 pack

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Apprehensive_Put4319@reddit

Maybe the question is: who DIDN’T go to keg parties? Lol

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MovingTarget-@reddit

I thought you pretty much had to be able to do a keg stand in order to graduate

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SweaterSteve1966@reddit

Got chased through corn fields by police once. I was so cut up by the end I actually wanted to get caught except I sure didn’t want them taking me home to my dad.

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GutsMVP@reddit

In college we hosted "keg races". Your team of six had to show you with a full 1/4 barrel and the first team to finish won the keg deposits (usually a couple of hundred dollars).

Fun times if I remember.

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Particular_Spirit_75@reddit

Keg races were so much fun (and so much vomiting)…..the key to winning was a quality tap.

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Practically_Hip@reddit

Best Days of my life. 😂🙄😂🙄😂

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Phish_2000@reddit

In College, we had 4-5-6 kegs every Friday and Saturday night.

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Krismo679@reddit

all the time

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Hedonistic_Yinzer@reddit

I hosted a few at the house when when the folks were out.

Pro tip.. I owned a tap. Always guaranteed an invite and free admission. A keg is no good without a tap. I can't for the life of me figure out how I acquired it, I'm sure it wasn't by legal means, or whatever happened to it over the years.

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cropguru357@reddit

What do you mean “younger days?” Went to one yesterday.

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Bubbly_Following7930@reddit

Have never been to one. That was not my crowd.

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sdsupersean@reddit

For my 21st birthday I filled the bathtub up with ice and threw a keg of MGD in there. At the time my friend group mainly preferred mixed drinks so after the party my best friend and I spent the entire weekend getting pickled from that keg. The first of many kegs for sure.

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CrumblinEmpire@reddit

Gen Z has the internet. We had kegs.

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JasterMereel42@reddit

And we didn't have cell phones recording everything.

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old_namewasnt_best@reddit

I think the smart phone killed a lot of mostly harmless fun. I did a bunch of dumb shit that I wouldn't have wanted preserved for posterity. I probably wouldn't have done as much stupid shit, but it didn't kill me and I look back on most of it fondly.

Oh, and when that asshole pulled out the Polaroid... nope, get that thing a long way from me.

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fifilachat@reddit

My college had keggers in the basement of the dining hall every Friday night my freshman and sophomore year. Like school sponsored! I think they stopped when a kid died :( of alcohol poisoning. Or else just because it was the time of increasing general awareness that it maybe wasn’t a great idea to encourage binge drinking. This was mid/late 80s.

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HoraceBenbow@reddit

Official college drinking disappeared when they raised the drinking age to 21. Before that at my college the student government would hold fundraises with kegs in the quad. After the drinking age change that went away.

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fifilachat@reddit

Drinking age was 21 when I was in college, but that didn’t stop anyone from going to these keggers. Had on the under age wristband. All you have to do was ask an upper classmen to get you a beer.

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ChrisBourbon27@reddit

I lived in a fraternity house for 3.5 years. I went to one twice a week whether I wanted to or not.

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rab-byte@reddit

Similarly I grew up on one of the last residential homes near a college campus. Weekends in HS I would just walk a block in any direction and find a party. 90% of the time if I had a red cup and a sharpie I would be drinking for free.

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

Only every single one that I could find.

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jfdonohoe@reddit

$36 in college was a keg of natty light, bag of ice and a bag of cups.

Kill it, pass the hat, repeat.

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HoraceBenbow@reddit

For $50 in the mid-90s we got a keg of Milwaukee's Best (affectionally called "The Beast"), deposit, two sleeves of red cups, and a bag of ice we just left on top of the keg.

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tez_zer55@reddit

Pasture Parties!

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Tropisueno@reddit

Gen z haven't figured this out yet.

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HoraceBenbow@reddit

College kids today can't get kegs. Or if they can, they're insanely expensive. So most go with bottles or smoke weed instead.

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space_usa@reddit

Here here! Nothing like a foamy keg party 🎉

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Several-Music9151@reddit

Is that not a thing anymore?

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kent_eh@reddit

Today's youts don't drink nearly as much as previous generations.

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perigee@reddit

High school teacher here - unless someone invents a way for Gen Z to vape keg beer, they're not interested.

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lovebeinganasshole@reddit

I don’t even think it was a thing for the millennials.

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JJQuantum@reddit

Are there any of us who didn’t?

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kent_eh@reddit

Are there any of us who didn’t?

Since kegs weren't available for sale to individuals in my province, quite a lot of us didn't.

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Throw8976m@reddit

yeah we did

sorority girl here. I can chug a beer

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Vandilbg@reddit

I had all the different tap types. They may have walked off on their own from a bar I bussed tables at. Hoff-Stevens, American sankey, Euro sankey, German sliders, Trilobe. So I attended my fair share of keg parties.

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Maleficent_State7033@reddit

Of course! Best one I remember was in an abandoned quarry, cops rolled in & my bestie (who didn’t drink) drove us out the back through the woods & we got away. Good times 😎

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itgoesineasy@reddit

That is what 99% of parties were back in the ‘80’s.

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Canuck_75@reddit

Ya man. Couple kegs and a gravel pit.

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KyotiKill@reddit

My parents (& their friends) had keg parties all the time. So I grew up around them, it was normal for me.

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opus_4_vp@reddit

Sometimes when I was in the Navy. Usually it was just cases and cases of beer cans.

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BadAtExisting@reddit

We threw them in college

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Pho_King_A@reddit

I own my own tap.

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Tag82@reddit

So did I. It was basically a golden ticket to every kegger.

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zoppaTheDim@reddit

I’d say everyone who had a circle big enough to throw parties or a tailgate.

And a lot of those people grew into craft beer drinkers who always know where to get kegs.

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coopnjaxdad@reddit

We would have keggers in an old industrial park and bury the kegs in the ground. That way if the cops showed up we could just grab the tap and starburst!

I am sure there are still some buried out there.

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andyraylan@reddit

We would buy a keg, transport it to the bottom of a huge hill, drag it up and party in the woods. Now? If the beer is in the garage, I’m probably not having one.

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Smoking0311@reddit

Last keg party my friends and I hosted we had 13 kegs and over 1500 pounds of ice ……….we were in our early 30’s and this was one of our last ones . Awesome time for sure

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highonnuggs@reddit (OP)

That sounds like some really cold beer.

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Smoking0311@reddit

😂 oh it was we didn’t order that much but the kids at the distributor loaded us up with extra free ice and cups and a oh by the way what’s your guys’s address we told them . They showed up 😂

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oldschool_potato@reddit

In HS, College , post college and now my kids college (on parents weekends).

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Sea_Ganache620@reddit

Hand Stand Tap Hit!!!!

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tanhauser_gates_@reddit

Who didn't.

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Frequent-Builder-585@reddit

I remember seeing all you can drink parties advertised with 99 kegs for $3. That was in 1979 when the drinking age was 18. Good times!!!

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HillbillyEEOLawyer@reddit

Younger days? If you count 30s and 40s block parties with neighbors.

(Oh, we had many in college as well.)

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Warm-Discipline5136@reddit

Went to, hosted, crashed, ran from cops, all of it.

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Ike_In_Rochester@reddit

I threw keg parties. They were actually Beer Balls.

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dugmartin@reddit

Attended many of them in college, helped throw quite a few as well. The one downside - some jerks started thinking it was funny to steal the taps when nobody was looking (usually very late into the night). It became so rampant that all the liquor stores starting adding a huge deposit for taps.

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meezls714@reddit

Ain't no party without kegs!!

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UpstairsCommittee894@reddit

House/field party kegs were the king. Driving around though the beer ball was the best.

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Extension-Rabbit3654@reddit

We had a party in College at the end of the semester with 17 kegs

It lasted almost three days and most of us had to stop on day two

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Life_of1103@reddit

Joined a fraternity…keg always present. We’d go through 16 during our Saturday night house parties.

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Status_Entrepreneur4@reddit

They were a rite of passage!

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19Bronco93@reddit

“We floated a keg last night”

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temerairevm@reddit

My town didn’t even have a movie theater. Every weekend was a keg party out in a field somewhere.

My friends’ kids don’t seem to do this.

We definitely had some problems with alcohol: sexual assault, teen pregnancy, drunk driving, and I even knew a couple kids who died in drunk driving accidents. So it’s probably for the best that it’s gone. According to my friends kids just vape weed now.

Overall though they seem less happy and self reliant than we were.

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nice--marmot@reddit

I worked in a liquor store through college and grad school. You’d be surprised how many kegs are returned with beer still in them. It wasn’t at all unusual for them to come back untapped, especially around graduation. We did our best to make sure those kegs were as light as possible when the distributor came to pick them up.

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Spazecowboy@reddit

Doing the lords work has its rewards.

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CryptographerOk3814@reddit

I went, but I just stood around all night holding a cup. I took a sip every once in a while. I thought it tasted like shit. Looking back now though it was most likely Old Milwaukee. 😂

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Spazecowboy@reddit

It got better tasting once you drank a few cups. Everything became better for a few hours.

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RevolutionaryLaw8854@reddit

My friend had a van. We would get a keg and a tub of ice most weekends and went to parties or made our own on a vacant dead end street.

Fucking nuts if you think about now

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seigezunt@reddit

Generally it was people who made beer their entire personality

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Chitown_mountain_boy@reddit

Or… you know… people who liked to have fun.

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seigezunt@reddit

Okay

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fridayimatwork@reddit

All the time

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chillinwithabeer29@reddit

All the time. Always great fun!

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LayerNo3634@reddit

The thing about keggers was, even if you were unpopular, if it was your party, you were "in" for that weekend.

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Abpoe77@reddit

We don't talk about Tucson.

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Equivalent_Yogurt_58@reddit

Never did.

I only had 3 friends in school, I hung with them when they were not at the keggers.

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realityguy1@reddit

Nope. I must have been a loser…..never did the alcohol thing. Still don’t.

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M52_MA@reddit

Keepers were the bomb, but they almost always produced a few fights.🤣

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ThrowingAbundance@reddit

Where are his legs? Something is unnerving about the composition of this photo.

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Catskillschick@reddit

He is doing a kegstand lol

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PoetFelon@reddit

Well, if its like the keg parties I went to, someone's holding him upside by his legs.

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Physical-Ad-3798@reddit

I wasn't cool enough to get invited to keg parties.

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Numerous-Relation-17@reddit

Kegs on ice in the bathtub.

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Smoking0311@reddit

Where are we going to do gravity bongs then

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Ray_The_Engineer@reddit

I'm the weirdo that didn't drink until I was 35yo. My parents were raging alcoholics, it had profound negative effects on me as a kid, so I skipped that part of adolescence.

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LeslieH8@reddit

Yes.

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Idontfeelold-much@reddit

My parents went out of town the weekend after my brother graduated high school. We threw a pool party. Went through an entire roast pig, 25lbs of potato salad and 5 kegs of beer. Our parents never knew. Narrator: They absolutely knew.

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Smoking0311@reddit

25 pounds of potato salad 😂

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NoAbbreviations290@reddit

I’m at one right now

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lowfreq33@reddit

I worked in bars/restaurants, so I could get kegs at wholesale price. Used to throw keg parties to make rent. $5 a head, two kegs of Natty Light. Sometimes we’d do two nights in a row. Had this huge apartment in a run down building, sometimes we’d have around 150 people in there. Somehow nobody ever called the cops. Probably because all our neighbors were in there too.

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Smoking0311@reddit

Always invite the neighbors

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Dependent_Pipe3268@reddit

I could never do a keg stand. We used to get Party Balls. I think it was a couple cases of beer in a box? Budweiser?

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Smoking0311@reddit

I believe a party ball held 2.5 cases of beer

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OkTouch5699@reddit

I never did a keg stand, but my favorite fact about my uptight, perfect sister, is that she held the female keg stand record at a very large, popular university for a month.

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Dependent_Pipe3268@reddit

LoL. So she's a low key party girl.

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RiffRandellsBF@reddit

All hail the Pony Keg:

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highonnuggs@reddit (OP)

Ah yes, the Pony Keg, another classic. Reminds me of their little brother the Party Ball.

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PuffDiesel1138@reddit

We used to get one of these close to every evening circa early 90s

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vitoforever99@reddit

People don’t keg party anymore?

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Whirlwind_AK@reddit

They peg nowadays…..

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1Pip1Der@reddit

I drank for free when I carried the keg, so I drank free a lot

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thenoid42@reddit

Never did a keg stand but we threw more than our share of keg parties.

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Fit-Narwhal-3989@reddit

Never. We thought those people were losers. We weren’t wrong.

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RealityDependency@reddit

We went to booze parties, rarely saw beer. GenX knew how to party. We were very troubled. 😆

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sevnthcrow@reddit

With a jager ice luge if you found a fancy ass party!

Bunch of kids in my area got seriously hurt after they threw a keg into a bonfire & it exploded. That always came up when someone mentioned a keg for a while, probably shifted some party plans.

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Hyperocean@reddit

On one good keg party memory involves the first guy in the high school crew that got married. We had two kegs with a cabinet tap in the back of a 5 ton U-Haul for a stag party trip to the big city a couple hours away.

The city cops eventually had a roadblock just for us. We had finished the first keg and we stuffed the full one in one of the couches, and were told if we were seen in the truck again we’d all wind up jail. So we did a big walk around and eventually wound up back at the truck for the loud ride home..

Another good keg local party was the local NHL’ers training camp going away bash that happened a few times. One of these was combined with a house wrecker (house was coming down on lot he bought)…

The good old days….

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Solid-Wish-1724@reddit

Pony keg in the dorm bathtub, keg stands at the parties. 1989 UCSB.

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2wt4u@reddit

I had 2 kegs of Michelob Dry at my 21st birthday party. Ran em both empty by midnight. Had to go back for more before last call.

I knew a few people back in those days.

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dafuqizzis@reddit

Dude! We had a keg of Michelob dry on my 21st birthday, as well! The other keg was MGD or something. We also had jungle juice and a couple random bottles handy. Gawd bless the early 90s.

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PorcelainTorpedo@reddit

All the time, 25 years ago. Saw a girl lose all of her front teeth when one of the guys dropped her while she was doing a keg stand…don’t do those.

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vindicatorx1@reddit

Went to? I had keggers every weekend during school the one summer we had a new keg every night. Kegs were super cheap in 1997-2002 you could get a keg of bud light for around $50. Most of the people I was friends with were all in some way related to the restaurant most of us worked at either directly or were friends of people who worked there. So the one summer those of us who’ve stayed at college for the summer hung out almost every night and we were going through a keg a night.

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CaptainZeroDark30@reddit

I took the spare tire out of my ‘62 valiant and installed a pony keg for my graduation. Rolling party. Didn’t get caught or hurt anyone but fuck I was stupid.

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sits_with_cats@reddit

Everyone!

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External_Side_7063@reddit

Is this a kid asking this to confirm what they’ve seen in the old movies and not believing that we actually did these things😄

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highonnuggs@reddit (OP)

Nah, just an old guy watching Back To School with Rodney Dangerfield. The party scene got me thinking about how many keg parties we threw back in the day.

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External_Side_7063@reddit

Well what I said is real you wouldn’t believe how many of these kids believe that all the 80s movies were just make-believe and they don’t believe us when we tell them that’s how it was. We would get high have sex and party in the woods the way teenagers are supposed to.🤣

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voytek707@reddit

My greatest college glory was when we snuck a keg of Honey Brown into our 3rd floor dorm room.