Kegs, New vs second hand.

[pist]

Ive recently gone through this...and my 2c is for the cost of a new keg king corny (new rubberised top and bottom ones) i wouldn't bother with second hand. Cost to buy second hand is going up and up...then you have to buy seals etc to rebuild them it all starts adding up. The new keg king ones i picked up today are just as good as genuine cornies and everything is new ready to go

 

[Bribie G]

I was in my LHBS today for the first time since I'd posted on this thread so I went over the new kegs with a fine toothed comb. I honestly can't tell any difference between them and my second hand ball locks except that they are Noiiice.

If I were starting off now I'd go the new ones, let's face it for an extra thirty bucks or whatever per keg, it's a good deal.

 

[dannymars]

Plus, when you get the old ones they're quite often filthy and filled with old soft-drink, sticky horrible **** that you need to completely scrub out... New ones are shiny as ****, and look awesome compared to ****** 2nd hand ones. new for me from now on...

 

[Crusty]

Been covered to Death Part II. You buy the beer in the keg. Add on a Euro 85 per keg purchase. If you were the Coogee Bay Hotel which does 500 kegs a week in peak, what would you do with all those kegs? Ahhh ... ummm ...

There is no purchase/rental agreement, drink the beer, send back the keg. Been covered to death Part III ...

I think you might be right.
A while back, I remember that they used to have an invoiced inventory system in place & the guy that collected the kegs would fill out how many A or D type kegs were going back. Your next keg order was credited against the returned number of kegs back to the brewery. Gone are those days & the guy picking them up now just loads up whats there for the taking & I'm certain the breweries have no idea of who has what. I think any losses are absorbed by the owners & finding a particular keg against a serial number would be almost impossible. The pubs & places here have no lock up facilities for empty kegs & I'm sure if they were losing money for non returned kegs, they'd be locked away. They remain the property of the brewery but it's certainly not policed around these parts. If there was a hold fee on non returned kegs, there would be a lot less stainless bling furniture at most of our local watering holes. The darn things are everywhere & there's some good looking pub furniture made from empties at a couple of places here.
As for new or second hand, I'd be going new for sure.

 

[MastersBrewery]

And if you left a case of beer on the foot path overnight and it was not there the next morning a complaint to the police would be met with laughter, go figure. I've stated before and still believe the responsibility for securing the property of the brewery lies with the pub, if said pub is not looking after that property....... I believe all due care is not being taken, and the end cost falls on the price at the tap.

 

[Grott]

Just to stir up a bit, the SA famous pick axe beer bottles have embossed at the base "property of the Adelaide Bottling Co P/L". Now when that actually applied how many were used for home brew, tomatoes sauce etc?
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