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  • Matt Dog

    says:

    If I had to construct a “Blast Cage” to wash plastic kegs, I’d just as soon not use them at all. What happens when a bartender somewhere over pressurizes one of these things?

  • pete

    says:

    Just my opinion, but a max 60-90 psi rating is completely inadequate for this industry. We have no control over how much pressure is pumped into these vessels once they leave our breweries. That’s probably why they specified the stainless keg standard at 600 psi, then specified max psi at 1/10th of that. Kind of hard to get a keg up to 600 psi, isn’t it? But 60 -120 psi? Not hard at all.

    This industry has had one recent tragedy and a handful of near misses at the bottom tier. What happens if and when there is a serious incident, or worse yet, another tragedy at the distributor or retail level? If I owned plastic kegs I would take that last question under serious consideration. If a keg goes out with a brewery’s keg collar/name/chime on it and explodes for whatever reason, who is liable? None of us want to be part of the answer to that question.

  • wailingguitar

    says:

    pete wrote: Just my opinion, but a max 60-90 psi rating is completely inadequate for this industry. We have no control over how much pressure is pumped into these vessels once they leave our breweries. That’s probably why they specified the stainless keg standard at 600 psi, then specified max psi at 1/10th of that. Kind of hard to get a keg up to 600 psi, isn’t it? But 60 -120 psi? Not hard at all.

    This industry has had one recent tragedy and a handful of near misses at the bottom tier. What happens if and when there is a serious incident, or worse yet, another tragedy at the distributor or retail level? If I owned plastic kegs I would take that last question under serious consideration. If a keg goes out with a brewery’s keg collar/name/chime on it and explodes for whatever reason, who is liable? None of us want to be part of the answer to that question.

    you make some excellent points…. there is a huge can of worms here

  • Rob Creighton

    says:

    I’m a bit baffled by the evolution of the plastic keg. The Chicago conference really showed me that this technology was coming but the PETkeg made complete sense to me and I believe is the future of kegging – see the KHS Petainer video on Youtube (Europe is always 5 years ahead of us)

    Despite examining the PKA lineup and buying 5 pins to get us into the game, the logic of trying to clean a plastic keg wall with caustic in a non inspectable environment…and…plastic seams just is not logical to me. I am curious what the British do differently to prevent this or do they simply have better regs and controls that won’t allow it. It’s seems unlikely it is that simple.

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