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    Hello,
    I am about to place an order for kegs and am looking for a little guidance on numbers. We are a 3 barrel brewhouse with 4x 3 barrel fermenters and 2x 6 barrel fermenters and a 2 head keg washer. We will not be distributing, only selling in house. My goal for year 1 is 250 barrels.
    With that said, what is a realistic mix of half barrel and 1/4 barrel slims would you say we should start out with based on the above numbers?
    Thank you!

  • #2
    I would recommend pouring from serving tanks. So much easier and less labor cleaning. But if you can’t do that I would say around 45 half barrel kegs and around 20 Sixtels....and a lot of keg washing. Just that amount of kegs will take a lot of storage space. Plan accordingly.

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    • #3
      I am a 3bbl system serving all through our taproom. Somewhere around 84 1/2bbl kegs and 12 1/6bbl kegs. I couldn't do it with any less on the halls but could get by with just a few sixtels.

      But serving tanks would be way way easier

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      • #4
        For me I based the number of kegs on how many beers I wanted on tap. I have 10 on tap so I got enough 1/2 bbl kegs to hold a batch for each faucet (so if you had 10 on tap for 3 bbl system, 60 1/2 bbl kegs). Plus an additional set for 1 batch (6 more). I also purchased a small amount of 1/4 bbl and 1/6 bbl for taking to shows and very limited distribution. This has worked great for us. There's always enough kegs empty in rotation to keg the next batch.

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        • #5
          We are a 7 bbl brew pub with virtually everything served in house, upgraded from 4 bbl brewhouse December 2017. Approximately 350 bbl a year. 12 beers on tap most of the time. 2 head manual keg washer. We have roughly 150 larger kegs (mix of 1/2 bbl and 50L) and 12 1/4 bbl kegs that we use for festivals, special events, etc. 1/2 bbl kegs save time on cleaning and filling over 1/4 bbls if it is all in house anyway.

          Washing kegs is not that terrible. I wash kegs for less than 1/2 a day per week, and usually I'm washing and filling kegs at the same time, so it is actually a pretty efficient use of time.

          Good luck.

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          • #6
            We're a 5BBL brewpub and have been open about a year and a half. We did 370BBL our first year and currently have 21 house-brewed beers on tap. We serve our fast-moving beers out of brites (we have six, 3 5BBL and 3 10BBL) and the rest out of kegs. We currently have 144 1/2 BBL and 70 1/6 BBL kegs. So far, we've been able to keep up with these kegs but I'm thinking we'll add some more by the end of summer for the barrel-aged and sour beers I currently have in production. I didn't find that the price breaks per keg were all that great at my level so I ordered them as I needed them and this is where I ended up.

            Cheers,
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            Don
            Idyllwild Brewpub
            Last edited by idylldon; 07-02-2018, 09:05 AM.

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            • #7
              I brew at a brewpub with a 3bbl system, and 3x 6bbl fermenters. We have 10 draft lines. I have around 140 1/2bbl kegs and a dozen 1/4bbl tall kegs.

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              • #8
                G4 Kegs chiming in here.

                As Don mentioned, the price breaks are usually around 200 kegs (for G4 Kegs and other suppliers). If you know you aren't going to need 200+ kegs, we would recommend starting small and getting more as you need. G4 offers really quick shipping turnarounds, so you can get kegs pretty much on demand.

                Email us at hello@g4kegs.com or give us a call at 541-508-5218

                -G4 Kegs

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