Eco Kegs Soon To Be Available To Hbrs

[Thirsty Boy]

Just finished reading this thread now I was wondering would it be possible to have an inflatable bladder something like a wine cask so if you were into real ale the bladder shrinks with the diminishing beer so no oxidising occurs am I making sense?I usually dont

Yes... there are new/trial/experimental draught beer systems in the market place that use a "Bag in a Box" system. There is a doovalacky installed in the on-premise that is essentially a fancy arsed postmix machine. Unpressurized beer is sucked from the big wine cask style bag in a box, gassed up on the fly and served.

LOTS cheaper than kegs, lots more space efficient for warehousing purposes, ditto the space efficiency and add less weight for transportability, recyclable, maybe refillable, and no reason the beer should be any worse than standard mega lager.

Enviro friendly... well, it takes a lot of energy to wash out a stainless keg. Lots of energy to transport one, especially because you have to do more trips because the don't stack into trucks very well.... If the boxes are re-cycled cardboard and the bags are re-cycled/re-recyclable... probably be splitting hairs on an enviro friendly front.

Thirsty

 

[kenworthy]

Yes... there are new/trial/experimental draught beer systems in the market place that use a "Bag in a Box" system. There is a doovalacky installed in the on-premise that is essentially a fancy arsed postmix machine. Unpressurized beer is sucked from the big wine cask style bag in a box, gassed up on the fly and served.

LOTS cheaper than kegs, lots more space efficient for warehousing purposes, ditto the space efficiency and add less weight for transportability, recyclable, maybe refillable, and no reason the beer should be any worse than standard mega lager.

Enviro friendly... well, it takes a lot of energy to wash out a stainless keg. Lots of energy to transport one, especially because you have to do more trips because the don't stack into trucks very well.... If the boxes are re-cycled cardboard and the bags are re-cycled/re-recyclable... probably be splitting hairs on an enviro friendly front.

Thirsty

 

[Lukes]

Bit of a bump...
Anyone tried them yet or got any news on the Eco plastic keg front?

- Luke

 

[KGB]

Isn't it just as easy to make a party keg from a pressure sprayer? (If people are after a small ~10L keg)

 

[Uncle Fester]

Another bump - Richard, and developments on this?

Fess.