Craft brewers are anxious to solve the theft problem because as much as 40 percent of their business is tied up in keg sales, triple the industry average, said Ken Grossman, founder and owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
His company, based in Chico, Calif., expects to lose at least 3 percent of its kegs each year and often must wait months for replacements because it orders in smaller batches.
While only about 12 percent of the nations beer is sold in kegs each year, it costs brewers as much as $150 to replace each keg, so the thefts have a big impact. In the past few years, breweries have collectively lost about 300,000 kegs a year, Becker said, out of an estimated 10.7 million in circulation.
olllllo said:A couple of telling points here.
Quoted for the intellectually/morally lazy:
Orpheus said:So we're agreed then! We must all 'appropriate' our kegs from BMC and leave the craft brewer's kegs alone!:cross:
Cheesefood said:No one blasts pot smokers, music stealers, or hooch makers. Hell, we even let Packer fans speak openly. Why is this issue so near and dear to some of your hearts?
Bobby_M said:If we have one more long drawn out debate about keg ethics...
Cheesefood said:Why is this issue so near and dear to some of your hearts?
Orpheus said:Let's be honest though, the article never once even mentions homebrewers. The problem is not homebrewers using these kegs, it's shady characters exploiting a situation to earn a quick buck.
CNN said:In the past few years, breweries have collectively lost about 300,000 kegs a year[/CNN]
There are 500,000 homebrewers (est'd) in the U.S. A homebrewer uses at most 3, maybe 4-5 max if they keg in sankes. And only a small portion will use any at all.
Problem isn't us. We can still give the keggle back to the brewery and they will end up recouping about 1/2 the cost, between deposit and resale.
Cheesefood said:CNN said:In the past few years, breweries have collectively lost about 300,000 kegs a year[/CNN]
There are 500,000 homebrewers (est'd) in the U.S. A homebrewer uses at most 3, maybe 4-5 max if they keg in sankes. And only a small portion will use any at all.
Problem isn't us. We can still give the keggle back to the brewery and they will end up recouping about 1/2 the cost, between deposit and resale.
Problem is anyone that steals a keg, or anything else for that matter, for any reason.
Cheesefood said:CNN said:In the past few years, breweries have collectively lost about 300,000 kegs a year[/CNN]
There are 500,000 homebrewers (est'd) in the U.S. A homebrewer uses at most 3, maybe 4-5 max if they keg in sankes. And only a small portion will use any at all.
Problem isn't us. We can still give the keggle back to the brewery and they will end up recouping about 1/2 the cost, between deposit and resale.
Only a few more years and we will all have a three keg set-up!!!!
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