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

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In the Frasier episode, "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name", Frasier Crane and his new friends sing "Roll Out the Barrel" in a British-style pub as a frustrated, and bewildered Daphne Moon looks on. [ citation needed] Yeah. Best time to do it. After that last do, they’ll never be expecting a second one, same night. Don’t worry. I’ll look after yer.” Source for notated version: - the 1960 recording by Paddy Canney and P.J. Hayes [O’Malley]; a 1963 Radio Eireann recording of Clare musicians Paddy Canny (fiddle) and Peadar O’Loughlin (flute) [Breathnach]; fiddler Willie Kelly via New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. An instrumental version is featured in the 1985 Argentine film Esperando la carroza. [ citation needed]

Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers plays a variation of this song in the 1939 movie At the Circus and later reprised it in 1946’s A Night in Casablanca. [ citation needed]The owner was stubborn. Dad came away barrelless and angry, at what he considered a mean injustice. It wasn’t just the money. There was a lot of pride, principle at stake now. The rather flexible moral code of that time and area demanded that barrels must now be pinched. It’s a double celebration for Cornwall’s largest independent brewer as they mark Cask Ale Week, celebrating the best of British Beer. In the 1946 movie The Captive Heart, the song was sung by the POWs to drown out the camp speakers and by the repatriated troops as they arrive home. [ citation needed] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.330. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

The standard size for cask beer is a firkin, meaning forth of a barrel ( middle dutch) and contains 9 gallons. The next size is a kilderkin, meaning half a barrel ( middle dutch) and contains 18 gallons. Next up is a barrel which is 36 gallons and then you have a hogshead, (originally called an oxhead due to the fact that they were branded with the sign of an ox head) and these contain 54 gallons. Two sizes that you never see in pubs are a butt which is two hogsheads, 108 gallons and a tun which is two butts or 216 gallons. In fact some brewers have gone the other way into smaller containers and send their beer out in a pin which is half a firkin or 4.5 gallons. These can also be made of plastic and if they are they are called polypins. https://www.ipscuba.net/archivo-espacios/nuestra-america/memoria/voces-mexicanas-triunfan-en-la-habana-entre-1938-y-1958/Barrelman: “Yeah, can ‘ave a couple. Ten bob each.” (Translated into 2003, fifty pence. A trivial amount now. But quite a large one in 1940). John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the polka for accordion and ensemble for RCA Thesaurus (1954). [ citation needed]