freebeer247
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We own a large marina with a substantial live-a-aboard community. In our Yacht Club room we offer free beer for customers, 7 days a week. The Club is open from 8am until midnight all week long.
I purchased a "Nostalgia KRS2100 Kegorator Black Draft Beer Dispenser" for the Yacht Club when we first started offering the free beer it was on the weekends only. Of course we had the typical problems I've read that most people have with them. I removed the back cover, adjusted the temp so it could get colder, purchased a tower cooler, and added +/- 5 feet to the beer hose in order to combat the foam issues. These all seemed to work great.
After very successful free beer on weekends, we decided to offer free beer all week long. The problem we found was that once the keg ran out, we only had a room temperature keg to load into the kegerator (which everyone knows takes a considerable amount of time to get to operating temperature). So we bought a second Nostalgia KRS2100 Kegorator Black Draft Beer Dispenser.
We didn't fully assemble the second Kegorater, we just used it to store the "on deck" keg so that when the first one ran out, we could easily swap them with minimal downtime. We are currently averaging about 3 kegs per week. This has been working pretty good until one of the kegorators simply quit cooling. The compressor is still running but inside it's not cooling at all. So now, we are back to the situation we were in before we purchased the second keg, dealing with a room temp keg. I have to mention that we ended up getting the first kegorater for free after complaining about it getting damaged in shipping so the option of returning it is not available to us.
I'm here asking for help. I'm trying to get my boss to purchase a commercial keg cooler like they have in bars that can keep two kegs cool at once, but costing $1800+, he's not going for it. The quick fix is obviously to purchase a 3rd Nostalgia KRS2100, but I'm afraid that it will meet the same demise as the other one sooner rather than later.
I'm currently trying to find single keg coolers for commercial applications that have good ratings. The units I'm looking at are Danby DKC5811BSL, IGLOO FRB200, or a Versonel VSL155TDSS.
I think I can probably get him to spend $600-$800 but not much more than that. Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do? I'd really love to get an old draft dispenser from a bar that has closed but my efforts have been fruitless thus far.
Thanks in advance everyone!
I purchased a "Nostalgia KRS2100 Kegorator Black Draft Beer Dispenser" for the Yacht Club when we first started offering the free beer it was on the weekends only. Of course we had the typical problems I've read that most people have with them. I removed the back cover, adjusted the temp so it could get colder, purchased a tower cooler, and added +/- 5 feet to the beer hose in order to combat the foam issues. These all seemed to work great.
After very successful free beer on weekends, we decided to offer free beer all week long. The problem we found was that once the keg ran out, we only had a room temperature keg to load into the kegerator (which everyone knows takes a considerable amount of time to get to operating temperature). So we bought a second Nostalgia KRS2100 Kegorator Black Draft Beer Dispenser.
We didn't fully assemble the second Kegorater, we just used it to store the "on deck" keg so that when the first one ran out, we could easily swap them with minimal downtime. We are currently averaging about 3 kegs per week. This has been working pretty good until one of the kegorators simply quit cooling. The compressor is still running but inside it's not cooling at all. So now, we are back to the situation we were in before we purchased the second keg, dealing with a room temp keg. I have to mention that we ended up getting the first kegorater for free after complaining about it getting damaged in shipping so the option of returning it is not available to us.
I'm here asking for help. I'm trying to get my boss to purchase a commercial keg cooler like they have in bars that can keep two kegs cool at once, but costing $1800+, he's not going for it. The quick fix is obviously to purchase a 3rd Nostalgia KRS2100, but I'm afraid that it will meet the same demise as the other one sooner rather than later.
I'm currently trying to find single keg coolers for commercial applications that have good ratings. The units I'm looking at are Danby DKC5811BSL, IGLOO FRB200, or a Versonel VSL155TDSS.
I think I can probably get him to spend $600-$800 but not much more than that. Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do? I'd really love to get an old draft dispenser from a bar that has closed but my efforts have been fruitless thus far.
Thanks in advance everyone!