Brewery catapults keg to new Guinness World Record
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March 12 (UPI) -- A California brewery broke a Guinness World Record when they used a catapult to launch a keg a distance of 438 feet.
The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company said it took on the Guinness record for the farthest distance thrown by a trebuchet, a type of catapult that features an extra long arm, and they selected a "Big Little Thing" keg to comply with the record's requirement that the projectile weigh at least 44 pounds.
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"They are not full of any beer," said Terance Sullivan, brand manager and official lever-puller for the trebuchet, told KHSL-TL. "We didn't want to sacrifice any beer. Beer is for drinking so we loaded them up with water."