Tap into fresh draught beer at home with NEW Tap King Dispenser and refills.
XXXX Gold, Tooheys Extra Dry, Hahn Super Dry, James Boag's Premium Lager, James Squire The Chancer Golden Ale.
For a limited time receive free delivery on any twin pack or dispenser. Plus receive $10 off when you buy both in the one transaction.
And more importantly, WHAT IS THE POINT?
You buy the tap once and then the cartridge style refills, a friend had one of these from a rep about 3 months ago its pretty simple to use. Haven't compared prices tho
Sounds like a bit of a rip off to me. 6.4l is around about $50
If you buy 24 x 330ml bottles that's 7.92l, looking at Squires the price is around the same for 2 x 3.2l bottles as it is for a case. It's an even worse situation if you look at 375ml or 345ml bottles (I cba to look up what Squires actually is)
Plus you have to pay $32 for the dispenser..so not only is it more expensive than normal bottled beer it costs more to drink it.
Plus the selection of beers is crap, James Squire is the only one I'd drink and even then I'm too much of a beer snob for that pretty much.
You kind of win in convenience stakes - no bottles to take to recycling, but then you have to have good beer glasses. Overall, I would not consider this until the price was cheaper and the beers were better. Neither of which will happen.
It's really a novelty purposes thing isn't it?
Yep, Squires are actually 345mL bottles.
$55 for a case (at Liquorland and Vintage Cellars) = $6.64/L
$51.49 for two Squire Tap Kings = $8.05/L, plus the dispenser.
A premium of $1.41/L actually works out at $11.67 more a case.
There are a number of beers that taste better on tap, but I'm not convinced that Tap King offers anything but poor value.
I tried those Heineken kegs back in the day, it's not the same as drinking actual draft in a pub. Nowhere near.
Realistically at those costs you can be drinking a $66-67 case of beer, e.g. one of the Karl Strauss (tower IPA, Red Trolley, Pintail Pale), Stone & Wood, Little Creatures, Vale IPA…all vastly superior beers.
plus they are in PLASTIC bottles… yuck
…all vastly superior beers.
You forgot to mention Foster's…
Foster's ??? What's that then? :)
In a good pub the beer is passed through a sealed cold tube. This adds to the flavour more than actually being in tap or barrel. That said, what adds most flavour is the glass and the temperature.
Cheapest way to get similar to a pub is to buy a case and keep several good beer glasses in the freezer. As long as you pour it right it goes down a treat.
Yeh I'm not buying the concept at this price. Pass on the cost savings that come with less packaging and maybe this can take off. BTW Rep, the youtube instructional video on the Dan Murphys website is set to Private so I can't view it. Might want to get someone to look into that.
I am not great at maths but appears to work out at more than double the cost of buying stubbies.
You really are bad at maths ;-)
It works out at less than 2x the cost of buying stubbies. Bargain!
Oh yeah, but it's more than 1x the cost of buying stubbies.
And you have to buy the tap thing as well.
And the selection of beers is shyte.
So… that's a no from me.
This works out at about 20% more than buying a slab of exactly the same beer…
eg. James Squire The Chancer Golden Ale
$27.49 per 3.2 l bottle = $8.59 per litre
or
$58.99 per slab = $7.12 per litre
and that's not even taking into account buying the dispenser…
It's actually even worse for the cheaper beers.
24x375ml Tooheys New Case = $35.40 = 3.93 per litre
2x 3.2L Tooheys New Tap king = $37.99 = 5.94 per litre (51% more)
mmm beer.
wonder if it can be hacked for my home brew
yes if you jailbreak it.
I had a trial system with a keg of Squires back in June. A few thoughts:
depending on how much of a drinker you are this might not be long enough to get through the entire 3.2 litres
it works out at about 11 285ml glasses in 3 weeks…
approx a glass of beer every 2 days…
Maybe Dans should try discounting actual beer every now and again instead of crappy offers like this one?
yeah, you'd think buying the same beer in one large bottle would be cheaper to manufacture and transport than a case of 24 bottles…
I would be more interested in my local Dan Murphey's did a rental on the Tap King system.
If they could get in a more durable one, rent it out for say 48 hours for $10 with an additional deposit.
I like the concept but I'm not going to spend $30 or so dollars ($20 or so with this coupon) for a keg system that will hardly be used for a gimmick around grand final time.
I hear Dan's are trialing growler fills - surely a much better use of floor space…but then growlers is for the little guys who don't have the marketing budget and middle management resources of Lion Nathan.
Hang on:
So I'm buying a whole system that's more expensive and more complicated then buying a case of any of these beers and putting them in the fridge?
I'm sorry, what's the bargain?