99 Bottles of Beer (a milestone)
Posted on April 14, 2004 in Interesting“It’s a Haier!!”
Sounds exciting doesn’t it? Well it is! The newest addition to the house is the almighty Keg-a-rator. She stands about 33¼" tall and keeps kegs of beer kept at a refreshing 33 degrees. (baby photos coming soon)
You may be asking yourself.
“A keg-a-rator? Eric, I’ve often sat pondering for many hours wondering if buying kegs of beer had any benefits over just buying beers 12 at a time from a liquor store.”
Very good question. Yes there are many advantages. For starters there is a lot less of a mess to clean up. No bottles, boxes or bottle caps littering the house and trash.
Secondly you make a lot less beer runs, an average full keg (1/2 barrel) holds 15.5 gallons of beer. That is enough to keep 25 beer drinking hooligans happy for an entire night.
The talented accounts here have locked themselves in the bathroom and crunched all the numbers. They inform me that 15.5 gallons of beer translates into 6 ¾ cases of beer or 162 Beers. Good work fellas, but seriously, crack open a window in there would ya .. it stanks!
With a decent keg of lets say Sam Adams selling for about $120 (average price) that means each beer would cost about .74 cents. That exact same beer would cost you $1.50 (in a 12-pack) at a liquor store or $4.00 plus a tip at a bar. Now that’s a friggin deal!
There mere fact that Pabst Blue Ribbon cost about 35$ for the same 15.5 gallons translates to about .21 cents a beer. Almost cheaper than tap water.
Side Note:
This is the 100th post to this website, a milestone indeed. But I have been creating webpages on the internet as early back as 1996 (thats like 30 years in internet time). A time before Moveable Type, Dreamweaver, CSS, Flash and Photoshop 5.
This is also known as the 5th version of my site, I will post versions 1 - 4 here later for your enjoyment.
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Dood, your math is flawed.
`Very good question. Yes there are many advantages. For starters there is a lot less of a mess to clean up. No bottles boxes or bottle caps littering the house and trash.'
What about the plastic cups? Those become something to clean up!
You failed to include the cost of cups into the cost of the beer coming from a keg. When you buy the beer at the store, part of the cost is the bottle. It's not a fair comparision to not include the plastic cup in the cost of a keg-beer vs the already included price of the bottle in a store-beer.
I won't even get into the fact that you still get $0.05 deposit on the bottle -- man that in itself is a GOLD MINE.
God dammit, this is a perfect example of why Chinese people are getting our American jobs! Hope your happy with yourself.
I have plenty of frosted mugs to contain the beer .. so I don't need plastic cups, hence it was not placed into the equation. I have fired all the accountants that worked on this project for shits and giggles anyways.
You're Fired
The deposit was placed into consideration, but the effort is clearly not there. I currently. nor have I ever, collected bottles and recycled them for the deposit money.
Although I have caught somebody else emptying out our 3 full recycling bins into the trunk of his car on numerous occasions. I think he was wearing one of Jesse's old shirts at the time.
/baa-leted
I move out of the house, suddenly theres a dog, a hot tub, and a now a kegerator. The fine line of practicality and fantasy have been blurred by my sudden detachment. Good luck fellas! I will, of course, enjoy each one of the new additions as I dub necessary. Probably in this order: beer, hot tub, beer, hot tub, beer. (all whilst the dog is running around the yard)
Peace
The advantages of beer that cometh from a keg are numerous.
However, the headache I have the next day SO sucks.
That headache will arrive weather you were drinking from a keg all night or a bottle of Jagermeister.
I understand its a lot cheaper and easier to do when there is a full keg available.
"I won’t even get into the fact that you still get $0.05 deposit on the bottle — man that in itself is a GOLD MINE."
Don't forget, you get the depost back from the keg. That should be equal to the .05 cent refund per bottle.
Great point.
I must say that through my years of research on the subject, I found that it is in fact only keg beer that gives me a headache.
But being the professional that I am, I continue to gather research on the subject.
Last night we had the first beer out of the new device. I admit that it is too much fun easy to drink draft beer on a couch. I accidently drank 7 beers in a 3 hours.
I must have been thirsty. Headache on!