KegLand Questions and Answers

[Schikitar]

We do have larger immersion chillers that will arrive in stock in about 6-7 weeks so perhaps if you want a larger immersion chiller you should wait a bit longer.

I will talk to the other guys about this and we will look at getting a bundle together.

Awesome, I can wait, I'll have quite the order to go in what with the Fermentasaurus 2, spunding valve and a bunch of other things - hopefully everything will be in stock at once! Have you guys thought about also one day implementing a 'ship together' feature in your shopping cart, kinda like Amazon etc.,? Allow people to pay for everything including a single shipping fee and then dispatch when everything finally turns up - would be very convenient for us as customers, not sure about your end..

 

[laxation]

To be honest I hate conventional garden hose disconnects and I have swapped all my garden hose fittings to camlock fittings that just do not leak like garden hose fittings. So even the stuff to water the lawn is camlock now. If you want to convert other garden hose fittings to camlock you normally need one of these:
https://www.kegland.com.au/stainless-reducing-bush-1-2inch-x-1-4inch-908.html
and one of these:
https://www.kegland.com.au/ss-camlock-type-f-male-x-1-2inch-bsp-male.html

Unfortunately a couple of these parts have sold out but we have more on the way.

please order lots

 

[RRising]

Awesome, grain mill and silicone tubing have arrived, now to get some grain and fire that baby up.

Also, a instruction manual for the mill wouldn't go astray.

 

[Grmblz]

Awesome, grain mill and silicone tubing have arrived, now to get some grain and fire that baby up.

Also, a instruction manual for the mill wouldn't go astray.

Hi RR not much to know mate, set a gap and turn the handle (for malted barley 1mm is a good start, then modify it according to your results/equipment, biab handles a finer grind than a RB etc) different grains need different gaps of course, BUT! if you want to know the "best" gap for a given grain be prepared for an avalanche of opinions, theories etc Google is your friend, glad your weekend was un-ruined, best of luck and enjoy the new toy, although you may have opened a can of worms lol Cheers G

ps, use a 2 speed cordless drill on low speed instead of the handle, 200rpm is generally considered an ideal speed.

 

[tanked84]

Are you going to stock any Weyermann malts?

 

[Nullnvoid]

Are you going to stock any Weyermann malts?

They are running a survey at the moment to see what malts people want them to stock. Check out their Facebook page or their website for the link.

 

[Paulos]

Any plans on releasing a stainless fermenter (ss brewtech style)?

If so, any thoughts or details on when and design features?

Loving your work by the way.

 

[Kev R]

Will you be stocking the Fermentasaurus Gen 1 ? The comprises made to suit your fridge make the gen2 unsuitable for my system.

 

[ShonkytonkBrewer]

Does it matter? Who is Beir Hearder?

No...I am Spartacus

 

[rsmallri]

Is there any advantage to the 8/10L mini kegs over the 9.5L picnic keg? They cost about the same when you factor in the head

 

[Crakkers]

Ugh... i swear Auspost has it out for me. I bought a refractometer yesterday morning, paid for Auspost express, got the shipping email at about 10:30am yesterday morning and as of now they either haven't picked it up or they haven't scanned it anywhere because it still says that its been "approved" and its not on my doorstep and no "we missed you" card in the letterbox.

I am sticking to toll from now on and pray that they don't increase their shipping costs.

I decided to stick with Toll too after how quickly they delivered my Robobrew. Ordered on a Thursday, delivered the next day - Melbourne to Adelaide - very happy with that.
Problem is, now they seem to have lost my 6kg CO2 bottle. It's been sitting in Melbourne all week apparently. I rang them to find out why it's taking so long and they said they'd check & get back to me.
They got back to me alright, but they can't tell me where it is, other than it's not in Adelaide.
They'd better bloody well find it!

 

[HaveFun]

Do you have any Father days special going ?

Cheers Stefan

 

[Mrkook]

Hi Kegland,
First of all I have ordered several time from you various products and haven't been disappointed so thanks! I was hoping you could help, I have purchased a liquid ball lock post bulkhead and I wanted to add the short dip tube to it which I purchased but I can't see how I can connect the two. Could you please instruct me.
Cheers.

 

[RRising]

I decided to stick with Toll too after how quickly they delivered my Robobrew. Ordered on a Thursday, delivered the next day - Melbourne to Adelaide - very happy with that.
Problem is, now they seem to have lost my 6kg CO2 bottle. It's been sitting in Melbourne all week apparently. I rang them to find out why it's taking so long and they said they'd check & get back to me.
They got back to me alright, but they can't tell me where it is, other than it's not in Adelaide.
They'd better bloody well find it!

The only problem i have with toll is that they are a day out with their delivery date estimate, a few times now it has come a day later, other than that they have been awesome, even when i had road works out the front the delivery guy parked a block away and delivered to me, it was my robobrew so props to that guy.

 

[Grmblz]

The only problem i have with toll is that they are a day out with their delivery date estimate, a few times now it has come a day later, other than that they have been awesome, even when i had road works out the front the delivery guy parked a block away and delivered to me, it was my robobrew so props to that guy.

+1 for Toll, but Auspost has been good here too, my previous house a couple of things went "missing" I jumped through all their hoops to no avail, the problem is they use contractors and if your local guy is a thief there doesn't seem to be much they can (or are willing) to do about it. I'm rural now (was ACT before) and our guys are brilliant, maybe it's the old city v country thing.

 

[RRising]

+1 for Toll, but Auspost has been good here too, my previous house a couple of things went "missing" I jumped through all their hoops to no avail, the problem is they use contractors and if your local guy is a thief there doesn't seem to be much they can (or are willing) to do about it. I'm rural now (was ACT before) and our guys are brilliant, maybe it's the old city v country thing.

My Auspost guy is quite good, but its the in between stuff from leaving the warehouse to being on board with the driver is what im having trouble with. But in saying that i do choose Auspost if i am not in a hurry to get my items.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

please order lots

No worries. We have lots more on the way.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

Hi Kegland,
First of all I have ordered several time from you various products and haven't been disappointed so thanks! I was hoping you could help, I have purchased a liquid ball lock post bulkhead and I wanted to add the short dip tube to it which I purchased but I can't see how I can connect the two. Could you please instruct me.
Cheers.

Thanks for that. You have a couple options to solve this problem.

You can use this part to convert the thread to female:
https://www.kegland.com.au/1-4-inch-bsp-stainless-internal-threaded-socket.html

Then use a barb like this one:
https://www.kegland.com.au/6mm-hosebarb-1-4-inch-male-bsp.html

So this will allow you to attach some beer line as a dip tube.

We will also have some 1/4 female to 8mm duotight fittings in the future too so this might be another option but this larger range of Duotight fittings doesnt arrive for another 6 weeks.

Alternatively you can just remove the very short dip tube that comes with that fitting and replace with a long stainless dip tube like this one:
https://www.kegland.com.au/stainless-keg-dip-tube-long-liquid.html

So you have various different options to complete this task.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

Do you have any Father days special going ?

Cheers Stefan

Yes but you would have to join our Facebook page to know what our fathers day special is.
https://www.facebook.com/kegland.com.au/

 

[Pik000]

I was watching your minikeg video and you were talking about ball lock disconnect flow controllers are coming out. Do you have any information about time frame?

 

[enoch]

As opposed to the whiners like me that, when they get a notification, find the stock is gone before they can order?

Whining no more.
Got in stock notification this morning and ordered. Still in stock. Yey.

 

[Indian Giver]

Why are your kegereators so cheap?

 

[KegLand-com-au]

I was watching your minikeg video and you were talking about ball lock disconnect flow controllers are coming out. Do you have any information about time frame?

We have already made some and we have been doing testing on this product. I am pretty sure they will be quite popular and they have several benefits over flow control taps.

We have found a couple small ways that we can make improvements to them so we are making some new designs which have minor alterations. I think the release date on these should be about November.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

Why are your kegereators so cheap?

Are you going to stock any Weyermann malts?

Yes after the survey we got quite a few people say that wanted a large selection of Weyermann so this is something we are going to do.

We will probably hardly stock any Joe White. The Joe White stuff is really cheap but it's just not quite as good and this was really demonstrated in the survey that we recently did.

 

[Indian Giver]

Didn't quote

 

[altone]

Why are your kegereators so cheap?

Probably a more useful answer than the other

I'd suspect Kegland have committed to buying a LOT of kegerators and are selling them at a low profit margin
to move some numbers.
Although I have no insight as to whether that's the real reason or not - just based on business economics I studied a while back.

cheers

 

[KegLand-com-au]

They save money by spelling it kegerator

The reasons why our kegerators/kegereators are so cheap are:
1. We have larger purchasing power on the kegerators so we purchase them cheaper than anyone else.
2. We have very low margins.
3. We are quite efficient at importing and moving stock and have fairly good staff to turnover ratio.

In addition to this we use superior beer line to some other importers. Some other importers use cheaper polyethylene beer line which can crack, doesn't work well with push in fittings, and also is a poor gas barrier so you get CO2 loss and O2 ingress through the beer line. A lot of people think plastic is a perfect gas barrier but this is far from the truth and PE is very porous and has extremely high gas transmission rates. The gas transmission rates are orders of magnitude higher than our EVABarrier tubing. We also no longer stock vinyl beer line either as vinyl has potential issues to human health. All vinyl beer line contains plasticisers. We already know of many plasticises that have negative effect on human health. Also almost all of these plasticisers gradually are released from the beer line over time. So it's something that just doesn't sit very well with me using food contact plastics like this that leech chemicals into the beverage.

We use excellent quality taps and fonts.

So by all means I think the overall kegerators are great value given all these factors and you probably will not find a better value kegerator anywhere in Australia.

 

[Half-baked]

I see you’ve put up the malts on your website, great prices. Do you have an ETA for stocking them?

Looking to buy some other gear and am torn. On one hand want to save on postage, on the other keen to get the new gear ASAP!

 

[altone]

What half-baked said - need some ale malt now - hanging off hoping you get stock soon.

 

[sbowler]

Any chance of being able to source some honey malt?