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Worth highlighting, and as has been said before, and will again on here:
The list above includes the SS Perlicks, and I would highly recommend springing for them now. I know they are more expensive, but you'll be buying them anyway in a year or two.
You can save the difference in proce between them and the standard faucets by waiting on a good CL deal for a fridge.
 
Worth highlighting, and as has been said before, and will again on here:
The list above includes the SS Perlicks, and I would highly recommend springing for them now. I know they are more expensive, but you'll be buying them anyway in a year or two.
You can save the difference in proce between them and the standard faucets by waiting on a good CL deal for a fridge.

+1 in forward seal faucets. For a taproom they aren't much advantage since beer is poured most of the day.

For homebrewers who pour less often, or might skip a couple of days between pours on a faucet, they really help keep them form sticking.
 
+1 in forward seal faucets. For a taproom they aren't much advantage since beer is poured most of the day.

For homebrewers who pour less often, or might skip a couple of days between pours on a faucet, they really help keep them form sticking.

Agreed. I have forward sealing faucets and my kegerator went unused for months(and yes I am properly ashamed of that fact). No leaking or sticking.
 
You can keg without refrigeration such as a keezer or dedicated refrigerator, however, imo it is a much more pleasurable experience if you have one of those.

For several years when I first started kegging in the mid-90s I used a jockey box I made from a small cooler designed to hold about a 6-pack, a cold plate, some tubing and keg connectors, a 5# CO2 tank and regulator, and a cheapo beer tap I bought at a yard sale.

If I filled the jockey box with ice it would take room temperature beer down to below 40. The whole dispensing setup probably cost me less than $100 with the most expensive parts being the CO2 tank stuff (~$70) and the cold plate (~$20) but you have to have C02 for any kind of kegging. It was nice at the time because I could take it to the lake or other people's houses and serve kegged homebrew.

I still use that jockey box 20 years after I made it and it still works great though I tend to use it now with kegged wine and argon instead of beer and C02.
 
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