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Keg Maintenance, Safety, and Quality
This aggregated playlist of resources will help breweries ensure keg safety and draught quality are met at their facilities and beyond.Read More
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Whether refillable or single use, kegs are an important part of serving and distributing beer. The resources in this section will teach you best practices for the procurement, performance and use of kegs.
This aggregated playlist of resources will help breweries ensure keg safety and draught quality are met at their facilities and beyond.Read More
Educate your team to be aware of the safety risks and precautions when cleaning beer lines with these training resources.Read More
The BA Technical Committee Keg Repatriation working group members believe that education at all levels of the beer supply chain is key to solving the expensive problem of keg repatriation. Here are basic questions and answers about stray kegs to …Read More
All industry stakeholders have a role to play in returning kegs to their owners. This post includes best practices for everyone using kegs.Read More
The Golden Rule KegReturn.com is designed to provide tools to help anyone redirect a keg towards its home brewery. Returning a keg to its owner is the right thing to do—if you lost your wallet you’d hope someone would return it …Read More
Many Brewers Association member breweries have been contacted by their local scrap yards letting them know that someone has tried to sell one or more of their kegs for scrap value. At 30 pounds empty weight, a typical stainless steel …Read More
Keg loss is a big issue for the craft brewing industry. The BA estimates that keg loss costs each brewery between $.46 and $1.37 per barrel of beer they produce. Read More
As we’ve grown, we are seeing an increased handling of full kegs throughout the brewery. One of our crew recently developed a tendon strain in his wrist from moving kegs. We had always been focused on the safety aspects of …Read More