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Everyone knows that BBQ goes oh-so-well with beer. Having a kegerator around is sure to bring the two together, and in a major way. But when you are out of beer, and don’t have time to brew, there are a number of options to consider to keep that kegerator working for you. It can be used for canned and bottled beer storage, for sure, but also for brining and curing meats of all sorts.
Brining meat is, of course, also known as marinating meat. Brine is a form of marinade. The process can infuse exceedingly savory and sweet flavors into your steak, chicken, lamb or whatever meat you prefer. Often, a delicious marinade can make all the difference in the resultant taste of the meat, turning a pale slab of meat into a flavor sensation. Brining usually takes a longer time to come to fruition than marinating, but also ends up with a product that lasts longer in storage.
Although many marinades are designed to activate flavors with only a few hours of immersion, that time should, for health reasons, be spent in a slightly chilled environment. This will hibernate any potential bacteria that might be present in the meat that cause spoilage. Often, a marinade will also contain alcohol, spices, or vinegar that will be anti-bacterial in one respect or another, as well, but nothing prevents food spoilage as much as keeping the temperature down. Hence, the kegerator is an ideal place to store your brining and marinating meats, especially when your fridge is exceedingly full with the family goods.
Brining meat also moistens cooked meat. Bringing meat hydrates the cells of the muscle tissue before cooking. The process by which the cells are hydrated is osmosis. The surrounding solution of salt and water (brine) causes salt ions to diffuse into the cell, and then absorb water from the surrounding brine as well. This technique is often used in commercial chicken manufacturing to enhance the flavor and the weight of the fowl in question.
Losing moisture in meat is un-avoidable when any type of muscle is cooked. This is why brining is important to cooking and BBQ-ing meats. One problem, which may not be apparent initially, is that the meat may have already been soaked in brine before you even bought it. Always look for any kind of salt or sodium ingredient on your meat. A second brining can make the meat taste way too salty, and actually can be detrimental to the moisture absorbtion of the meat.
When preparing to brine meat in your kegerator, make sure to check the ratio of salt to meat, but also consider the surface area of the meat. Meat with more surface area needs to be brined for a shorter amount of time, because the salt-ion-water-osmosis happens quicker. For example, a 10-pound turkey must be brined for much longer than 10 pounds of shrimp, which have a relatively larger surface area per pound.
Just to give you an idea of what kind of salt ratios and brining times are suitable for brining meats in your kegerator, here is a simple chart of some commonly brined meats:
- Turkey (12-15 pounds) – 2 cups sea salt; 1 gallon water; 14-22 hours depending on size
- Chicken (2-5 pounds) – ½ cup sea salt; 2 quarts water; 3 ½ hours
- Shrimps (1 pound) – 1 cup sea salt; 2 pints water; 40 minutes
- Beef Ribs (3 pounds) – 1 cup sea salt; 1 gallon water; 1 cup sugar; 3 hours
- Smoked Salmon (4 pounds) – ½ cup sea salt; 1 quart water; ¼ cup evaporated can sugar; ¼ cup maple syrup; 2 bay leaves (crumbled); 1 Tablespoon Dill
- Brisket Brine (8-14 pounds)
2 cup warm water
1/4 cup rock or kosher salt
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 onion, diced
2 Tbs. Rosemary, ground
1 Tsp. Bay leaves, ground
1-2 Tbs. of your favorite exotic herb or flavoring (cardamom, caraway, mocha powder)
Also try coriander, powdered lemonade, coffee, chipolte, etc.
Add the following to the brine:
3 cans of beer
3/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup Worcestershire saucePlace the meat in the brine, turning it once every 8 to 12 hours to insure coverage and penetration.
- Pork Shoulder (6-8 pounds)
1 cup sea salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
2 tbsp grains of paradise
8 cloves garlic (peeled and minced)
5 bay leaves, torn
3 carrots, peeled and chopped
2 celery stalks, washed and chopped
1 yellow onion, peeled and chopped
5 cups homebrew, dark style preferred
5 cups water
2 quarts ice
Sea salt is always advised for giving the best results in cooking. The industrial nature of other forms of commercial salt production may leave trace chemicals in the salt that can distract from the taste of a finely cooked meal.
Kegerators can also be modified with temperature controllers to chill above or below the suggested temperatures for serving beer. Thusly, you can modify your kegerator to store frozen meat or other foods that require bulk cold storage. Just make sure that you don’t let your beer freeze. If you are looking for more control of the cooling range of your kegerator, you can investigate a great array of temperature controllers from manufacturers such as Johnson Controls and Ranco. Such controllers are available in analog and digital formats, or even as power plug style regulators.
A custom temperature controller can be especially useful if you intend to cure meats in your kegerator, because you can keep the curing meats at an ideal, slightly cool temperature – 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. This will help you to cure the meats without as much trouble from food spoiling bacterium, although certain molds are highly desired to add flavor to specific types of salami and other cured meats.
Keep your keg fridge working for you when the beer runs out and enjoy delicious kegerator brined meats on the grill or in a smoker.
There are a variety of beer cocktails existent in the world, from the Guinness and Blackcurrant served in pubs in Ireland to the Michelada of Mexico. A whole new wave of beer cocktails has been developed in recent years. Many of these may prove to be fads, but currently beer cocktails are being developed by many bartenders across the country.
First, let’s get some definitions straight. A beer that is mixed with liquor is a beer cocktail. A drink that consists of beer that is mixed with other non-liquor mixers is technically referred to as a shandy. Let’s start with a list of common beer cocktails that are served today:
Irish Car Bomb – This was probably the first beer cocktail I had ever heard of. The Irish Car Bomb is the classic mixture of Guinness and a shot that consists of either Irish Whiskey, Irish Cream, or a combination of both that is dropped into the pint of Guinness.
Boilermaker – This is more of a drink combo, but one that is often enough ordered that it is considered a type of drink. Boilermakers usually are beers served with a shot of whiskey, vodka, or tequila.
Sake Bomb – This is a beer drink in which a shot of Sake is poured into a pint of beer.
There are a lot of beer and beer combinations that border the line between shandy and beer cocktail. These are sometimes called blended beers.
Black and Tan – a blend of stout or porter with a lighter amber or brown ale (Guinness and Newcastle being the most common blend, in my experience).
Snakebite – an equal part mix of beer and cider.
Diesel or Snakebite and Black, a relative of the snakebite, which is a half pint of beer mixed with a half-pint of cider and then topped off with a dash of blackcurrant cordial.
Shandy – Beer that is mixed with some sort of lemonade or lemon flavored soda.
Shandys are often very sweet, and the type of citrus mixers vary slightly from country to country. For example, a shandy in the UK is mixed with carbonated lemonade, and in Australia, is mixed with citrus-flavored soda, like lemon-lime or 7-UP. This is what such sodas are called in Australia, while lemonade as Untied Staters think of it is called Lemon Squash.
Shandygaff – mixture of beer and ginger ale or ginger beer, coming again from the UK.
The Brass Monkey is one United States beer cocktail that gained some amount of fame from the Beastie Boys song named after it.
Brass Monkey – made by drinking the top off of a fo-tee (40 oz. Malt Liquor), and then filling that with orange juice. This drink could be referred to as the Po’ Man’s Mimosa, or Ghetto Mimosa.
One of the most famous beer cocktails in all the world is the Michelada. I am most familiar with the Micheladas made in Southern and Eastern Mexico, although the drink is made in most Latin-Speaking countries. Like the Shandy, the recipe varies from port to port.
Michelada – Beer, clamato, lime juice, salt, Worcestershire, and hot sauce, chile powder, or peppers.
The drink can end up tasting a lot like a bloody mary, but made with beer instead of vodka. This drink should always be made fresh. Although there are many commercially-produced micheladas these days, they pale in comparison to the flavors and customability of a freshly made michelada. Country by country, there are versions of this drink that also enter into the mix Fanta or other orange sodas, making those micheladas similar in a way to the shandy with its mix of citrus flavors.
Other interesting beer cocktails
Lychela – half a pint of Mexican beer mixed with 6 oz lychee juice, a whole lychee, and 1 oz lime juice with salt on the rim. Truly a taste sensation!
Fruit Stripes – Boulevard Tank 7, Rogers and Winters Apricot, lemon juice, and simple syrup to produce a complicated and sweet beverage.
Beer Fashioned – a play on the old fashioned, but with Avery White Rascal, Bulleit Rye, and orange juice.
Zeus’ Brother – a powerful beer cocktail that includes Great Divide’s Hades Ale, Broker’s gin, Pimms, lavender simple syrup, and lemon juice.
Hop-a-rita or IPA-a-rita – this drink blends a shot of reposado tequila with half a pint of IPA or Pale Ale, an ounce of lime juice, ice, and agave nectar to taste.
Bee Sting – Concoct this beer-cocktail version of the classic Screwdriver by mixing dark beer with orange juice.
Summer Ale – Mix frozen pink lemonade from concentrate with water, vodka, and beer. Serve over ice with a lemon or lime wedge. Pump up the flavor by using lime-infused beer and lemon-infused vodka.
Of course there are many more kinds of beer cocktail in the world, but really there are too many to go over here, such as the Refajo of Colombia, Panache of France, or the Tango of Belgium. Ultimately, the course of experimentation will guide the field of beer cocktails to great heights of flavor, I am assured.
If you’re heading to a retirement party in the near future, you may be at a loss for what to buy as a gift for the retiree. Often people that reach retirement age have most of what they want, or are very particular about what they like and don’t like.
So, if you don’t want to get a gift certificate to a local restaurant because you’re at a loss for something more personal, and if the person who is retiring is someone who enjoys drinking beer, why not consider getting them the rather unique gift of a full sized or portable keg dispenser?
Why a portable kegerator or beer cooler, you might ask? What is your retired friend going to do with that? Well, it’s simple. Many people who are retired love to spend their time traveling and going around doing all the things they might never have had the time to do while they were working the 9 – 5 grind. Once retired, they are free to pick themselves up to go wherever the wind may take them. If the person enjoys activities such as tailgating at sporting events, enjoying a picnic or fishing by the lake, or one of many other outdoor activities that can’t take place right in their own backyard, then they may enjoy having a portable kegerator or a portable beer cooler with them so they can take a bit of their favorite beverage along wherever they are headed.
What’s the difference between a portable kegerator and a portable beer cooler, and how would I know which one to buy? , you might ask. Well, of course, you first want to make sure the person likes beer before you buy them a gift like either one of them, or you’ll be wasting your money. But, if they do, then deciding between the two appliances is simple – it’s the difference between having draft beer or drinking beer from cans or bottles.
Portable kegerators provide the option of putting a small mini keg of beer inside which is kept cold and can be dispensed right from the tap, wherever you may be. This is a rather unique option that the person wouldn’t otherwise have. Portable beer coolers, on the other hand, are coolers that can be plugged into a car or truck to provide cooling space for cans or bottles of beer. They are similar to other types of coolers, except that if you are traveling somewhere far, you can actually keep the inside of the cooler cold for long periods of time because it is plugged into an energy source.
The nice thing about buying any type of portable beer dispenser for someone who is about to retire (assuming they like beer) is that it gives them the flexibility to take the beer with them wherever they want to go. If they like to travel or go camping, they can bring along some cold beer for the trip. If they like to spend the day on the beach or by a lake, there’s still cold beer to be had. If their preference is simply to go spend the afternoon visiting with other retired friends, they can bring along some beer to add to a relaxing afternoon or evening. No matter where the person may want to spend their time, they can bring along beer that will stay good and cold, so they can enjoy drinking it while savoring time with friends and favorite activities.
So, instead of getting stuck for a gift idea next time you know of someone having a retirement party, find out if they like drinking beer, and if so, consider the fun and flexibility that you can offer by giving them the gift of a portable kegerator or portable beer cooler. Even if these small appliances cost more than you’d like to spend, they are the perfect type of gift to split among a few friends or co-workers – and if you wind up with a few extra dollars in the pot, you can even throw in a bit of beer to get their retirement off on the right foot!
Every home bar needs a kegerator. There are many approaches to obtaining a kegerator, but making it your own requires some imagination and a willingness to apply yourself to the modification of the inner workings of your home draft system. Designing a unique and functional draft beer tower modification can be as simple as gluing fabric or fur to the draft tower, or as complicated as creating a LED light-up Plexiglas tube. When my home brewing friends and speakeasy acquaintances ask me what they can to do spice up their home bar, my first answer usually has to do with modifying the draft tower on their home draft system. I tell them what I will tell you – the only limit is your imagination.
There are many out of the box options for replacing your draft tower. Some companies offer kits that can add taps to the tower you already have, and others offer a stylish chrome plated alternative to the thicker tower that is stock on most kegerators. There are also the towers that allow for multiple taps: Single column double, triple, or even quadruple faucets are available, “T” Style, Mushroom style, Column, Elbow, and even Ceramic Draft towers are available commercially.
These draft towers can be good starting points, especially if you are interested in having multiple types of beers available at the same time. Many of these designs can stand alone to make your draft beer set-up unique while maintaining function, especially if you do not have a well developed theme for your home bar.
If your home bar does have a well-developed theme, you will need to go one step further with your draft tower to ensure that it stands out. Having a rotating seasonal theme on your home bar adds some added interest. This is where experience with set design and things like Halloween decorations can come in handy. What follows are a few examples of some of my favorite unique draft beer tower modifications.
The Orcish Mead Hall
One great home bar theme that is very unique is the Orcish Mead Hall. This room was outfitted with a large variety of weapons on the wall – swords, clubs, axes, and shields. There were grisly battle standards adorned with fake severed limbs and the tables and stools were made of rough-hewn wood and stumps. Naturally, a stainless steel draft tower did not fit in with the theme of the bar. It was a simple modification to make it fit in, however.
The first thing was to make a bar top that obscured view of the kegerator’s main body. The top from an old dining room table was cut down and a U shaped notch hole was cut and fitted over the kegerator. The draft tower was removed and disassembled. A large Styrofoam rock, or “Fake Boulder” was carved to allow the draft tower to fit into it, giving the impression of a natural spring spewing beer, mead, etc. The tap handle was removed and a cow bone was fitted with the properly threaded bolt to be mounted onto the tap as the new handle. The end result was very Orcish indeed.
The Boxing Ring
The Boxing Ring is a speakeasy that had a lot of old boxing memorabilia lining the walls. The tables had reproductions of old boxing posters from the 1800s through 1950s, stories of various boxers, all laminated with resin to make a smooth and easy to clean table top. The person who built the bar was a real fan of using that plastic resin to encapsulate different objects for artistic purposes. So what did she do? She made a resin cast block with gold painted beer lines and golden painted boxing gloves encased inside. The block looked for all the world like a huge block of ice with boxing gloves and beer lines frozen into place. The area immediately surrounding the end of the block was molded hollow with enough room to attach the beer faucet, which was screwed into the epoxy resin.
The Workshop
The Workshop was a home bar that was built into a wood and metal working shop. It was utilitarian and had a unique function as well – the kegerator, when beer wasn’t being dispensed, looked for all the world like a rolling tool chest with other tool boxes stacked on top. It wasn’t until the top tool box was opened that the beer faucet was revealed! Perfect for keeping visiting clients and newbies in the dark about the consumption and location of alcoholic beverages in the work site.
The Rolling Crypt
The Rolling Crypt was a parade float that was pulled by a bicycle and resembled a crypt. This was no ordinary parade float, however. The rolling Crypt had four soda kegs hidden inside it, and a variety of black and green tentacles dangling from the rear crypt door. Inside one of these tentacles was a beer spigot dispensing the Dead Horse Ale from within. While this was not technically a draft beer tower modification, the same principles of construction could certainly be applied to a draft beer tower, especially if your home bar has a gothic motif. A tombstone draft beer tower would be fairly easy to present – just make sure to stock up on Halloween decorations in the fall. Also, stone fountain statues may be easily converted into beer fountains – or at least dispensers.
LED Plexiglass Draft Tower
This project works well in a technological or futuristic environment. The LED draft tower acts as a kind of new wave lava lamp, and can be programmed to strobe, gently cycle through different colors, or maintain one color. Your local electronics shop can help you with the circuitry, and the Plexiglass and all the tools needed to build the basis of this draft tower can be had at TAP Plastics or a similar retail plastics outlet.
I hope this article has given you all the ideas you need to come up with your own unique draft beer tower modifications. Remember, there is no shame in using hot glue!
Let’s face it – bachelor and bachelorette parties are a time to have fun, let loose a little and enjoy a last wild night before the wedding. There are many options of what to do during bachelor and bachelorette parties, but most options include drinking, in some shape or form.
One way to really get a bachelor or bachelorete party rolling is to break out the draft beer dispenser! Because of its small size, you can take it with you just about anywhere you go (assuming it is legal to do so!) That means you and your buddies will have cold tasty beer with you, available at a moment’s notice, to keep your spirits high throughout the night.
So, what’s the point of bringing a mini portable kegerator with you during a bachelor party? Well, the answer is simple – you can have access to beer wherever you are. Many guys opt to rent a limo for the evening to take them to their destination (or destinations) during the bachelor party so they can live it up, and drink it up, without having to worry about who’s driving or how they’re getting home.
If you’re driving around in a limo, then chances are that you want to have a few beers along the way – and what better way to do that than to bring along a mini kegerator with you so you can dispense the beer yourself as you head to your intended destination.
A mini kegerator is sized to fit one of those small 5-liter mini kegs of beer. This size is probably perfect for you and your buddies for the night (or if not, you can bring a few) and provides the same great tasting, draft beer that you would get at the bar you’re headed to, for a lot less money. This means that you can have a few beers along the way and save some cash when you hit your destination, since individual beers at bars and clubs will cost way more than the price of the beer in your mini kegerator. If you’re headed somewhere rather far away, such as a casino, it also means that you can get the party started before you get to where you’re going.
If someone attending the bachelor party doesn’t already have a mini kegerator to bring along to the party, buying one for the groom-to-be can be a great gift. You can buy a mini kegerator for around $100 – $300 and fill it with a 5 liter mini keg for the bachelor party. The guys at the party can even each chip in a few bucks and make it a group gift that the groom will surely appreciate. The guest of honor will have a great gift to start his new married life with – and you will have a reason to head over and visit! Mini kegerators are a great addition to any home bar, and because they are portable, they can be taken to parties, can be used out by the pool or on the deck, or can be the centerpiece at tailgating parties.
Girls can get the same benefits from using a mini kegerator at the bachelorette party as guys can. Just as during the bachelor party, girls can take a mini kegerator with them in the limo while heading out for a night on the town so they can enjoy some great tasting beer along the way. Some mini kegerators even dispense wine. The nice thing about having a mini kegerator is that wherever the bachelorette party may go, there is some free-flowing fun along for the ride.
So, when planning your next bachelor or bachelorette party for a friend, think about bringing along a mini kegerator to add to the fun – and to lower the cost of buying drinks at the bar. It’ll be an addition to the party that all participants should truly appreciate!
Wings. Chips. Hot dogs. Beer. There’s nothing like the fun – and the food – involved in tailgating before the big game. Tailgating parties are not only a prelude to the football frenzy, they are part of the football frenzy. If you love to tailgate, then having a portable beer cooler or a mini beer kegerator is an added bonus that will surely make you one of the most sought after attendees at your next tailgating party.
This is for the professional tailgater – $4,999.99 from Poplin FabricationBeer is almost always a big component of the tailgating tradition. Whether in bottles or cans, football fans want their beer cold and they want their beer fresh – no matter how low the temperature may drop outside. Even when the windchill starts to dip, no one wants to drink warm beer. That’s why having a portable beer cooler can make you lots of friends at your next tailgating extravaganza. Portable beer coolers come in a variety of different sizes to house different quantities of beer. They work by plugging their 12V cord into the car’s cigarette lighter or alternate power source so the interior contents can stay cool. Portable beer coolers are versatile because they not only chill cans and bottles of beer, they can chill snacks as well.
If you really want to be a hit at your next tailgating party, consider bringing a mini kegerator instead. There’s nothing like the taste of genuine draft beer when you’re celebrating before the big game, and no matter how many cans or bottles of beer a portable beer cooler may hold, nothing beats the taste of beer on tap. It’s pretty hard to bring a full keg to the parking lot outside of the football stadium, so bringing a mini kegerator can do the trick instead. Mini beer kegerators fit the mini-sized, 5 liter kegs of beer, such as those sold by Heineken and other brands. The kegerator keeps the beer cold and dispenses the contents of the mini keg from a tap, just like a larger keg of beer. This gives you all the benefits of draft beer taste, in a convenient ‘take-it-with-you’ package.
If you are having a large gathering of people at your football tailgating party, you may need more beer than what is housed in one 5 liter mini keg, so you can simply bring along extra mini kegs to put into your mini kegerator so that you can keep dispensing great tasting draft beer throughout the duration of your tailgating party, rather than running short. That makes it easy to transport the amount of beer necessary to satisfy all participants at the tailgating party, without having to lug a heavy keg or tons of cans and bottles.
The good news about opting for a mini kegerator filled with a 5 liter mini keg of beer for your tailgating party is that it is environmentally responsible way to drink your beer before the big game. Using the mini keg saves on the many cans and bottles that would otherwise wind up in the trash or in the recycling system otherwise. With a mini keg, all you need is a cup for each person, which can be refilled.
So, the next time you’re heading to the field for a tailgating party, don’t forget your mini kegerator or portable beer cooler. You’ll be the hit of the party!
Birthdays. They come around year after year and are always met with celebration – and gifts. The good news is that birthdays deserve to be celebrated. After all, each new birthday means that another year has successfully been completed and the birthday recipient is embarking on a fresh new year in their life. The bad news, however, is that after awhile, people run out of birthday gift ideas for friends and family members, and rather than birthday gift giving being something enjoyable, it can turn into a chore.
If you’re looking for an interesting gift idea for the people in your life, how about getting them a mini draft beer dispenser or a beer tube? Of course, it would make sense that you would only get this type of gift for those who enjoy drinking beer, but for those that do, mini kegerators can be a great and fun gift that will be met with lots of “ooohs” and “aaahs”.
A mini kegerator is a very small refrigerator that houses a 5 liter size mini keg of beer. The refrigerated portion keeps the beer cold and tasting fresh, and there is a beer tap on the exterior of the appliance that dispenses the beer, much in the same way you would have a draught beer dispensed at a bar. These small appliances are reasonably priced (in the neighborhood of $100 – $300 or so) and are an attractive addition to any home bar, family room, game room or even kitchen counter. Most mini kegerator models come in a sleek stainless steel design and resemble the looks of an upscale coffee maker or espresso machine.
The great thing about buying a mini kegerator as a birthday gift is that unless your friend or family member is a huge beer enthusiast that is always seeking out the newest gadgets, the chances are probably pretty good that they don’t already own a mini kegerator of their own. So, rather than them trying to look appreciative even though the gift you bought them is something they already have or aren’t really interested in, the gift of a mini kegerator is sure to please. If you combine the purchase with a 5 liter mini keg, not only does the kegerator serve as a gift, but it can be part of the birthday celebration as well!
For those that are looking for a birthday gift that is even more unique, a beer tube may fit the bill. Beer tubes are fun and interesting looking “tubes” that can be filled with beer and have a themed or decorative bottom with a small tap on them. They are a great conversation piece on a bar or in a family room and can be filled with up to 100 ounces of beer (or around eight 12oz glasses) to be shared with friends or imbibed alone. Beer tubes come in a selection of popular themes, such as baseball or bowling for sports enthusiasts, or in more subtle designs made of wood or stainless steel. These quirky beer dispensers add a festive mood to any get-together and are truly a conversation starter.
So, the next time you are at a loss for what to get as a birthday gift for friends and family, assuming they enjoy drinking beer, consider buying a mini kegerator or a beer tube for a birthday gift they won’t soon forget.
There’s nothing like a reunion. Whether you are attending a family reunion, where you get together with members of your extended family that you don’t often see, or a school reunion, where you can meet up again with old school friends that you have lost touch with, a reunion is a once in a lifetime chance to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice.
Reunions are much anticipated events and often take lots of care and planning – and they often are accompanied by a good deal of food and drink as well, as everyone takes the time to catch up with one another. So, with that in mind, it’s easy to see why reunions are the perfect occasion for using draft beer dispensers.
Unless the reunion that’s been organized is for a bunch of school-aged friends, most reunions are rather large events that are well planned in the food and beverage department. Alcoholic beverages are typically a part of the festivities, and in some cases only beer and wine, or only beer are served to cut down on expenses.
Since everyone loves to have a few drinks while catching up with old friends or family members that have travelled from near and far, having a keg and keg dispenser on hand can be the most efficient and cost effective option for serving beer at a reunion.
Kegerators can be rented if you don’t already own one and are basically the refrigerated compartment that houses a keg or half keg of beer. You may wonder why you would need the kegerator and can’t just get away with the keg, and the answer is simple – kegs of beer need to be kept cold or the beer tastes lousy and starts to go bad.
Back in your younger days, you may have been okay with just throwing a keg into a bucket full of ice and hoping that it would stay somewhat cold before the keg was emptied, but you can remember how lousy most of that beer tasted. If you’re serving beer to a crowd of anything other than college aged frat boys, chances are that you at least want to make sure the beer tastes good – and that means you’ll need to keep it good and cold. A kegerator will do that for you – and will also make an eyesore of a keg look more attractive if it’s being left out in clear view for people to help themselves.
So, if planning a reunion is on your list of things to do in the near future, make sure that someone is taking care of ensuring there’s a kegerator for the beer. If no one owns a keg refrigerator, or the place you are holding the reunion does not supply one, you can easily rent a kegerator for the night or weekend to use at your event.
By having a kegerator on hand, you can focus on catching up with old friends and finding out what they’ve been doing since you’ve seen them last, rather than reminiscing about what it was like the last time you were drinking warm, lousy beer together.
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