Cost & pricing
Draft Beer & Keg Calculator
How many pints do I actually get out of this keg, and what does each one cost me?
Kegs are sold by volume but poured by glass, and foam eats the difference. Enter what the keg costs and what you pour, and this gives you real pints and real cost per pint.
Your numbers
Pre-filled with a worked example so you can see how it behaves. Type over any field with your own figures. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
The answer
How this is calculated
Servable ounces = keg ounces × (1 − loss %)
Sellable pours = servable ounces ÷ glass pour, rounded down
Cost per pour = keg cost ÷ sellable pours
Pour cost % = cost per pour ÷ menu price × 100
What this does not tell you
- Keg volumes are exact conversions of the nominal barrel and metric sizes. Actual fill can vary slightly by brewery.
- Enter the beer that reaches the glass, not the glass capacity. A 16 oz shaker glass poured with a proper head delivers closer to 14 oz.
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