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That would be interesting... Does anyone know of local vendors around here doing this? I bet they put a lot of added pressure on the corny keg market in Eastern Canada... be interesting to see if it catches on...

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That seems like an interesting (er... strange) way to do it. A corny keg only holds 40 pints, so if they're even moderately busy that means there's a lot of keg changing going on. Keg changing is time not spent keeping customers happy.

benwedge wrote:That seems like an interesting (er... strange) way to do it. A corny keg only holds 40 pints, so if they're even moderately busy that means there's a lot of keg changing going on. Keg changing is time not spent keeping customers happy.

Scratch that. Re-read the article. They're selling the beer in corny kegs expressly for the home market, with regular kegs (and growlers) to come soon.

benwedge wrote:That seems like an interesting (er... strange) way to do it. A corny keg only holds 40 pints, so if they're even moderately busy that means there's a lot of keg changing going on. Keg changing is time not spent keeping customers happy.

It does say they're planning Sankes for bars. Once that happens, I bet the cornys come right back on the market...

It's very common for start-up breweries to use cornies, or it used to be since they were more readily available and a lot cheaper to source than sankey kegs. An awful local microbrewery I used to be affiliated with still had 400 of them in service to pubs in 2008. Oh and they had a brand new $22,000 keg washer that would only wash sankeys

derek wrote:

benwedge wrote:That seems like an interesting (er... strange) way to do it. A corny keg only holds 40 pints, so if they're even moderately busy that means there's a lot of keg changing going on. Keg changing is time not spent keeping customers happy.

It does say they're planning Sankes for bars. Once that happens, I bet the cornys come right back on the market...

I bet they go right back into the owner's garages where they came from. It says the brewery was founded by 4 homebrewers. I wouldn't be surprised if this started as a way to legally sell 'homebrew' to their buddies.