Any advice on acquiring a keg to convert?

[ggltd]

Dear God please don’t visit this topic again.. you will only start a big riff. On the one hand the belief that if you find an empty keg on the side of the road with an animal skeleton laying across it, you have to take it back to AB. Then there is the other belief that the monster big 3 or 4 deserve to be “robbed” (the cost of the keg deposit) because they are evil and making it too hard for the great micro breweries to eck out a living. Also they have corrupted the American taste buds by spending billions on promoting a crappy product. I lay some where in the middle. I live in Pittsburgh. Anyone remember when AB came in and bought Rolling Rock- a good brewery that supported the local community with good jobs and benefits? AB closed the brewery and put all those people out of work. Where do you think RR is made now? Not in Latrobe, so I say if it has AB stamped in the stainless try to do the right thing but don’t feel guilty if the source is questionable. Can we leave this topic be now?

[Mylo]

So, what you are saying is that we adopt the same "don't ask, don't tell" policy that the military has on gays? Eh?


Mylo

[BadRock]

Then there is the other belief that the monster big 3 or 4 deserve to be “robbed” (the cost of the keg deposit)

They are not robbed of the $10-$25 deposit. They are robbed of the retail value of $120-$180.

Bottom line is that there are plenty of ways to legally obtain a keg. Either purchase one from one of the several retailers that offer them. Barter or buy one from a brewery. But to just outright steal one is ridiculous.

You are not fucking over AB, Miller, Coors, etc. This just becomes a line item loss that they work into their budget. These losses are then past to the consumer and their employees. They can't raise the price of the product to much or it will impact sales. But they can eliminate a couple dozen $45k jobs.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2 ... heft_N.htm

[Hammer]

+1

Stealing is stealing.

Try your local beer distributer. I have gotten half a dozen from mine. He gets the ok by going up the food chain to the manufacturers. It can take a while but the price is reasonable.

[ApresSkiBrewer]

So, what you are saying is that we adopt the same "don't ask, don't tell" policy that the military has on gays? Eh?


Mylo

I think that stealing the kegs is wrong... but at the same time I dig this.

[ggltd]

Gentlemen: AGAIN I go back to my first post. In all the years of reading all the blogs on various sites I can recall no topic that ever causes such venom, dropping of the F bomb, putting words in other people’s mouths and general nastiness as this topic. I don’t get it. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but you will not change some one else to your belief in what is right or wrong- only God can do that. Can we get back to “relax don’t worry drink a homebrew”?

[BadRock]

Everyone is entitled to an opinion but you will not change some one else to your belief in what is right or wrong- only God can do that. Can we get back to “relax don’t worry drink a homebrew”?

Or my fist in your mouth! - spoken in the dialect of JP.

J/K - I agree. You're either gonna be a douche bag or not. I don't plan to persuade anyones thoughts, more just want to lay my ideas on the table in hopes that others may find them useful.

[meisterofpuppets]