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If you have the money to keg, and you don't mind only having as many varieties as you have kegs, I think kegging sounds wonderful.

For me, I'd rather spend my beer money on more ingredients, and I love having a ton of variety on hand at any given time. I'll be bottling for the foreseeable future.
 
I move to kegging after doing 5 extract batches. I was pushed along by getting a 20# co2 tank and a regulator for free. The only downsides? Of kegging is I go through beer faster than bottles, and giving away beers makes me bottle off the keg sometimes. Not having a beer gun or counter pressure filler makes it more of a chore, but not really that bad. I bottled a batch without kegging first, and ended up with a crazy gusher bug. I'm thinking the beer gods were punishing me.
 
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