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Originally Posted by cubby_swans
If you buy tapping equipment, you can keep it for several months on tap without it going bad. With a party pump, you're looking at about a 24 hour window before the beer is oxidized and starts getting infected by the bacteria in the air you pump into it. I've seen where a keg of Guinness cost someone in Canada something ridiculous, like $270.
Guinness is pasteurized, and it comes warm from across the pond, on a container ship, so there's no reason you can't keep it at room temp until you're ready to tap it.
The tapping kit is somewhat expensive, if you're only looking at one keg, but if you think you might get one of these here and there, it might be a worthy investment. Just have your 10 buddies kick in a few bucks whenever they're going to be drinking one of these kegs, and put it towards the tapping equipment. Just make sure you can get the beer gas somewhere in your area before you buy anything.
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58L keg of Alexander Keith is nearly $300 at TheBeerStore. I've checked Budwieser as well, seems $290 so I'd say $270 for Guinness would be a fair price as it doesn't sell at TheBeerStore. Canada eh AYYY
Thanks for your help, I'll call Draught Services hopefully they have for rent. If others who live near me they can rent their gear to me as well
Thanks for your help, I'll be probably buying if they don't have what we need like the faucet or something.