180 Beers on the Wall

Though it’s waiting for official confirmation from the Guinness Book of World Records, the Yard House in Long Beach boasts what’s thought to be the globe’s largest selection of summer’s favorite libation: draft beer. It’s either served by the pint or in specialty glasses one yard high (yes, dude, that’s 3 feet). When it opened in 1996, someone said it would take a 200-pound person 65 years to drink the kegs dry.

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* 180 beers on tap.

* 250 tap handles (some beers have several taps).

* 5 miles of beer lines run under the floor from kegs to taps.

* 200 kegs consumed on average week, which translates approximately into 24,800 pints, or 396,800 fluid ounces of beer.

* 100 yard glasses served on average Friday night.

* Coors Light is top-selling brew, with seven kegs consumed a week, or 13,888 fluid ounces.

* Widmer Hefeweisen, made in the Pacific Northwest, is most popular summer beer, with four kegs consumed a week, or 7,936 fluid ounces.

* Lost Coast Apricot Wheat, Humboldt Hemp Ale and the Kosher He’Brew from San Francisco-based Shmaltz Brewing Co. are most unusual beer offerings.

* Long Beach Ice Dogs hockey players favor Canada’s Labatt’s Blue.

* Belgian ales Abbey de Leffe Blonde, Maredsous Abbey, Piraat and Gulden Draake have highest alcohol content, at 10% to 12%.

* Least expensive pints are Coors Light and Bud Light, at $3.75 per pint (or $14 per yard glass).

* Most expensive is Lindeman’s Framboise from Belgium, at $5.50 per glass (or $27 per yard glass).

* Yard glass made in Mexico, distributed by a Washington state company.

* Goat Hill Tavern in Costa Mesa, with 141 tap handles and 131 types of beer, is Yard House’s closest competitor in tap offerings.

The Yard House, (562) 628-0455.