The month of April was a low post month for me (wow only 2?) I’m sure you all thought I was gone. Well, I’m here to say I haven’t gone anywhere and, I’m not promising anything but, I should post more in the coming month. Now on to the tutorial portion of this post so you can also learn how to lower your number of monthly posts.
First take work, and make it more workier (or busier). It’s true work has been busier (which is great!) and when you get to the end of the day it’s real easy to slip into to super relax-o mode (especially when you DVR as much crap as I do!)
Mr. Kegs and not only do they have a decent inventory they can order a wide variety of beers. I got the tap handle off of ebay to enhance the Keg-R-Rator experience! According to google, a full European Keg (13.2 US gallons) will provide roughly 105.6 US pints (always serve your beer a pint at a time!). Man, that is a lot of beer and I need help! Now you don’t have to purchase a full sized (1/2) keg there are also 1/4 kegs and pony kegs. I’m not sure which I will choose next, I may narrow it down to a few choices and put up a poll, or I may end up brewing a batch (thanks to Jason) of that ever so tasty Scottish Ale we made a few months back and put it into an old 5 gallon soda keg, allow it to ferment and use the C02 as propellant/carbonation. I’m sure whatever I choose I’ll keep you updated.
<justification>Now I realize this is excess (pure gluttony) but I feel I’ve been responsible with it and I try to get on the treadmill to walk off some of the extra carbs. Also my wife approves of it and I love her!!</justification>
Very cool. How does the cost come out? Does it make it a lot cheaper than buying 6 packs at the market?
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If you were to buy 6 packs of newcastle in the bottle (avg price of 1.33 per bottle) you’d need about 141 bottles equate to a full (half barrel) keg, your price would be:
187.53
A keg of Newcastle costs:
142.95
So you end up saving about 23.77% (depending on how you pour) if you buy a keg (no taxes were included in the calculations and 6 packs of newcastle can range plus or minus 1 or 2, depending on sales).
So you don’t save much, but you do end up with very cold fresh tasting beer, and you don’t have all the bottles (AHHH CRV, I’m not going to calculate that..) you don’t have the countless trips you’d have to make to buy the beer, and you have a KEG of Newcastle!!! That’s cool!!!
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