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Using natural air to move beer from the bladder to the tap, BrewLock benefits the bar owner’s bottom line by saving on costly gas tanks while also improving eco-friendly initiatives on-premise at various levels. putting a glass under it. You get good, fresh beer immediately.” With limited space in his existing walk-in cold room at Formerly Crow’s, Mintz worked around the issue by putting a Kegerator in the basement that he uses solely for BrewLock kegs. An independent line runs from the Kegerator (which can hold three BrewLock kegs) up to the bar to a solo Heineken tower. The size and weight of the BrewLock kegs also make it a very efficient system for all sizes and weights of employees. The standard steel Sankey half-barrel is a 15.5-gallon keg, 23” high and 17” in diameter, and when full weighs approximately 160 lbs (around 30 lbs when empty). It takes a strong 30
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individual to lift and maneuver one. The 20-liter BrewLock keg can be easily handled and changed by most anyone on staff. And for those employees (or customers) who have been pushing you to “go green,” BrewLock kegs are 100% recyclable. “Many of our distributors pick up empty BrewLock PET kegs and properly recycle them, and we work with other distributors to identify alternative options if their current recycling partner is not equipped to dismantle and recycle the PET keg,” says Lang. “BrewLock also reduces the account’s carbon footprint by eliminating the need for expensive CO2 or nitrogen gas blends to move the beer from keg to customer.” Ray Butler, owner of The
Banshee, an Irish pub in Dorchester, Massachusetts, had the BrewLock system installed in his bar just prior to the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament last year. As the premier soccer bar in the Boston area, it was a good time to push Heineken draught and his new tap system; but he also appreciates Lang’s notion of benefiting the environment as well as the beer business on whole. “For what it’s worth, I can imagine that this is the future,” says Butler about BrewLock. “They say — whoever ‘they’ are — that for every steel keg The Banshee has in its cold room, there are seven or eight kegs in the process, meaning there is maybe one in customs, one on a boat someplace, www.barbizmag.com