Used Keg (cleaning) vs New Keg

[Robert65]

another thing to consider about used kegs, a lot of them come with a sticker telling you accepting them is willfully receiving stolen property.... i have to look at that threat on 2 out of my 6 kegs, but i got them from morebeer? lol.

Back when the original owners (Coke, Pepsi etc.) actually owned and used them, yeah, it was the same as it still is with Sanke kegs. A deposit was paid, but it was stolen if not returned. But the soda industry has long since relinquished them, and they have all been legitimately sold through multiple salvage/wholesale /retail distributors on the way to us. You can stop looking over your shoulder (as if you were anyway! [emoji57] )

 

[kh54s10]

I was able to finally get the smell out of it but it took like a week of repeated cleaning and rests before I could not smell anything any more.

I am pretty sure all rubber was replaced early on in the cleaning process, could be I am just a lousy keg cleaner.

I don't know what would hold onto any smell. Stainless steel will not. I have had things go bad in stainless containers with a terrible rotten smell. A quick clean and the smell is gone.

 

[Robert65]

I don't think soda companies use kegs any more.

The last Pepsi bottling plant to use cornies was in Florida, and closed down in 2015 IIRC. Chi Company bought the entire contents of the plant, kegs, dispensing equipment, everything, and you can now buy kegs from them by the 40' shipping container for dirt cheap if you want!

 

[bracconiere]

those stickers aren't easy to remove.....lol, the only problem with them, is when i was 20. i actually did steal one...which if there was a way to do it, now that i'm 41 and a responsible adult, i'd gladly give them $100 for.....(but i scraped the sticker off the stolen one so i don't even know which one it is)

 

[kh54s10]

those stickers aren't easy to remove.....lol, the only problem with them, is when i was 20. i actually did steal one...which if there was a way to do it, now that i'm 41 and a responsible adult, i'd gladly give them $100 for.....(but i scraped the sticker off the stolen one so i don't even know which one it is)

Are you talking about corney kegs? If so why would you want to pay $100 for a used one. They go for between $45 and $60 depending on where they are being sold.

 

[Robert65]

Are you talking about corney kegs? If so why would you want to pay $100 for a used one. They go for between $45 and $60 depending on where they are being sold.

$100 or thereabouts may well have been the value placed on them by the soda distributor when they let them out with a security deposit. Just like Sanke kegs for brewers, the value they needed to secure was replacement value.

 

[bracconiere]

Are you talking about corney kegs? If so why would you want to pay $100 for a used one. They go for between $45 and $60 depending on where they are being sold.

$100 or thereabouts may well have been the value placed on them by the soda distributor when they let them out with a security deposit. Just like Sanke kegs for brewers, the value they needed to secure was replacement value.

i'm with robert65....because that's what they cost new....and yes, corny keg, there was a small shop that left them out back...i was actually driving, and unconscious at the time of theft.....but i woke up with a new keg, and a story from my then heroin addicted girl friend telling me what happened....

 

[hezagenius]

I buy new AEB kegs now for 2 reasons:
1) The last used keg I bought looked like a tank ran over it in WW2. And the website said "gently used" or "almost new" or something. Last time I bought a used one.
2) All my replacement parts are identical. I don't have to worry about which lids fit which kegs and which posts have which threads.

 

[bleme]

The last Pepsi bottling plant to use cornies was in Florida, and closed down in 2015 IIRC. Chi Company bought the entire contents of the plant, kegs, dispensing equipment, everything, and you can now buy kegs from them by the 40' shipping container for dirt cheap if you want!

How cheap are we talking here?

 

[day_trippr]

Looks like singles are $40 plus shipping, a bit cheaper by the four-pack...

https://www.chicompany.net/ball-lock-kegs-c-376_1_44/

They also have a pallet price...

Cheers!

 

[Robert65]

Looks like singles are $40 plus shipping, a bit cheaper by the four-pack...

https://www.chicompany.net/ball-lock-kegs-c-376_1_44/

They also have a pallet price...

Cheers!

Aww, it looks like the pallet is the largest quantity now. Until recently they listed an option for a 40' container, "loose fill." Probably how they cleared them out of the plant they liquidated, before palletizing them. See, the end really is coming... very slowly.

 

[balrog]

Looks like singles are $40 plus shipping, a bit cheaper by the four-pack...

https://www.chicompany.net/ball-lock-kegs-c-376_1_44/

They also have a pallet price...

Cheers!

Ouch. $23 buh to ship to MA.

 

[day_trippr]

That's how they all get you
I can't remember the shipping cost for the four-pack I got from AIH a few years ago but I don't recall it being punitive. Might have been around $20...

Cheers!