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What is everyone paying for 5 gallon ball lock kegs?
Once again another nod for sixtels.$30 all day everyday at every BD.Ill chime out now
I bought 2 of those from AIH as well. Not as nice as the ridiculously expensive Italian kegs, but they're working great. The shipping up to Canada hurt though...
I bought 2 of those from AIH as well. Not as nice as the ridiculously expensive Italian kegs, but they're working great. The shipping up to Canada hurt though...
What is sixtels and BD.III???
Sixtel is a 1/6 keg. BD is Beer distributor. There is a $30 deposit on all kegs.Call around and ask if they have any returned kegs you can buy for the deposit price.If not you can always buy a keg(1/6) of your favorite beer,drink it and keep the keg.If you ever get out of brewing return the keg and get your $30 back.Then it cost you nothing the entire time you were using it.Cant loose+1 I cannot find any sixtels for anywhere near $30.
Share your secret?
Sixtel is a 1/6 keg. BD is Beer distributor. There is a $30 deposit on all kegs.Call around and ask if they have any returned kegs you can buy for the deposit price.If not you can always buy a keg(1/6) of your favorite beer,drink it and keep the keg.If you ever get out of brewing return the keg and get your $30 back.Then it cost you nothing the entire time you were using it.Cant loose
A 1/6 (sixtel) holds a 5 gallon batch perfectly.Its basically the same size as a corny
Sixtels at $30 is alluding to the less than honest method of purchasing a full keg from your local shop and not returning the keg for the $30 deposit.
My BD said he wouldn't sell/rent (whatever you want to call it ) a small brewery keg.But he said the BMC "come in like tide and go out like the tide".Sometimes he has a ton of them sometimes he has only a few. Ive drank more BMC over my lifetime than Id like to admit.I will sleep easy "renting" one for a few years. Somehow I think they will survive without it.I to am a small business owner.If this becomes a morel issue and holding onto a keg from a billion dollar company for longer than someone possibly should is the worst thing you've ever done,you must be one hell of a model citizen.Of the endless kegs Ive bought over my lifetime I was never asked once to return it in X amount of days.So whos to say theres anything wrong with it to begin with.
Also the kegs are not damaged in any way and are fully returnable.Of all the endless Keggles out there and all over this site that no one has a problem using and selling that have had saws and torches taken to them,how many do you think were originally purchased new and empty.Im going to say right around zero. My piece has been spoken,time for a homebrew...out of a sixtel.
I have never understood why people are afraid to mix ball and pin locks. I know that they have a different footprint and (pinlocks?) are taller, but it is not too difficult to swap out quick disconnects.
Footprint for me is a major concern. Things are a tight squeeze in my keezer and I'd lose 1 slot even trying to put a single pin lock in. As far as mix and match goes I'd say it's less about the effort of changing the connector (assuming using MFL fittings) and more about the fact that now they would need to go and get a second set of connectors to keep somewhere and pay for. If you're going to pay for something pay for the permanently installed part mounted to the keg and leave your lines in tact. Could even end up in some strange scenario where you are only putting fresh kegs on tap based on the style of keg rather than the contents.
I can only hope this is glitch in the system.The back and forth between myself and others in a discussion regarding kegs vs corneys has been deleted only showing one side? I refreshed 4 times with the same results.Please say this isn't so...
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