Kegging supplies in Canada

Anyone have a good supplier up here in the Great White North? What do orders from the States end up costing with shipping and duty? I live on the west coast, so if anyone knows a good shop in Vancouver, that would be a bonus.

I'm looking for a tower kegerator kit, I've got an old Danby fridge and need everything else.

Thanks!

I got into brewing about three years ago and couldn't find a good supplier in Canada. I wound up buying a keg kit from the US. The only real problem was that the kegs were pressurized with CO2 and the border guards didn't want to allow them to pass. I can't remember what the shipping charges were, but since it was the only show in town I had no choice but to pay it. Since then I've found a place that has some stuff, but it's so expensive that it's still cheaper to order from the south even with shipping, duty, exchange, etc.

I originally bought from Alternative Beverage. http://www.alternativebeverage.com/cornelius_kegging_system_ball_lock/cornelius_ball_lock_system.htm

I bought the three keg system. I'm up to 14 kegs now.

kegconnection will ship via usps so you don't have to pay any duty! Just give them a call or send them an e-mail. You would be better off calling them, they are good guys.

I had to pay $90 duty (forgot to ask for USPS shipping), if it wasn't for that I would have gotten the whole kit for around $400 shipped.

RichardWhittaker here on the site also sells Kegs, he is in Ontario.

Has anyone bought from PN Tech or Simgo?

Yes, bought from Simgo, great to deal with.

like already said, RichardWhittaker on here has a post in the classifieds for some for sale. Also, before you go anywhere, do you have a local Princess Auto? they had them for sale but not sure if there's any left. Check there first as the kegs were $25 each.

Anybody had any luck getting surplus kegs off of Pepsi?

rrmiller said:

Has anyone bought from PN Tech or Simgo?

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I will second Simgo, great to deal with and resonably priced. They supply all of the retail wine and beer stores in my area with their kegging equipment.

Guinness said:

Anybody had any luck getting surplus kegs off of Pepsi?

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It'd be worth a try, but not sure how much luck you'd have. Pepsi has recently switched to bag in a box for their pop mixtures, so you may have some success getting some. good luck..

Dan's on Hastings in Vancouver has most of the supplies for kegging (cornys). See http://www.beermaking.ca/ , although he doesn't have an online store.

They have a really good fresh grain selection too

I bought from http://homebrew-supplies.ca
Randy has been awesome. The store is in Ontario, shipping to Saskatchewan was by Canada post and was quite cheap. He has an fairly extensive amount of parts and supplies.

I still have some kegs left. I had the same problem with finding kegs for a reasonable price in Canada and ended up buying out a guy who used to service the kegs for coke and pepsi. I got about 30 kegs for a decent price however they were missing parts such as the quick connect posts. I have been putting kegs together and selling them to try and recover my costs and fund my transition to all grain brewing. SWMBO would like to see them move a little faster than they have been I think she wants some of the space back .

Richard