Keg Hire in Melbourne?

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  rokoz on 31/12/2014 - 12:12

  You could try ringing around a few local pubs.

  When I worked in a pub a few years a go and we had a couple of portable temprite/ice box dispensers on hand that we would provide with kegs. Didn't charge a hire price for the gear per se if they bought the kegs from us, just needed a bond.

  If you do get one, don't adjust the gas - I used to dread hiring them out as they'd often call up complaining of frothy beer - always the same story - Uncle Numbnuts thought it was a bit flat so adjusted it. Hard thing to unf*ck without lots of wastage.

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  wheeliekegman on 01/01/2015 - 07:01

  +1

  So I do Keg Hire on the Gold Coast…

  Prices to buy a keg of beer (and dispense it i.e. the equipment hire) are not cheaper than cans or stubbies. The reason for this is, in the past, like @rokoz mentioned, pubs used to lend, or hire cheap the dispense equipment to people who bought a keg from their pub. The purchase of the keg was enough of a profit for them to do this for free or cheap! The volume of beer in a keg (50L) is equivalent to 5.5 cartons of 375ml stubs, so that is how the maths is done.

  But Uncle Numbnuts and his mates at the party would do exactly as above and eventually the gear would be just shit…..The customer had no skin in the game because they paid nothing for the gear. The hotel would get the shits because they spent more time on the phone dealing with Uncle than was worth it. So they stopped hiring gear.

  In comes the keg hire businesses…

  In Melbourne, there are a few. And they all charge about the same. Usually in two parts….1. The price of the keg and 2. the price of hiring the gear to dispense the beer.

  An average price for a Aussie Local Heavy Beer (VB, Tooheys New, XXXX Bitter etc) is about $280 to $300
  The average price for hiring gear to dispense it is about $80 - $130

  So the cheapest you'll get 50 L of the amber gold to be poured at home is about $360

  Unless you hunt down the "brew on premises" type places.

  On the Gold Coast I use aardvarkandarrow.com.au or gcbrewery.com.au

  Use these webpages as examples of what you are looking for in Mel.

  They will usually sell you a better beer IMO with no chemicals and no preservatives and charge you less for the gear, because, like the pubs in the old days, their profit is in the beer.

  My customers cheapest option when using these guys as a keg supplier is $305 for everything you need, keg and gear. So about, $2.29 a Stubbie equivalent. Still not cheaper than Dans or First choice or insert fav bottlo here. BUT you do have to get esky, ice, rubbish removal (bottles, and bottle caps and Uncle Numbnuts removing sticky beer labels and repurposing them as wallpaper in the dunny when he's pissed)

  Feel free to PM me - I can talk you through ut over the phone if you want…

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  Tuttle on 06/01/2015 - 15:56

  Thanks for the help mate, went through kegs on legs, pretty helpful guys and girls there- really think there is a market for a wheelie bin keg hire business in Melbs though..