Beer gas for home brewers and for dispense within home bars has become something of an issue in some areas and, as it happens, the Fylde Coast where we are is one of those areas.
Beer gas is kind of the under appreciated component in home bars or home brewing setups but when we get down to it it’s a critical component. Without gas all of the home bars we install, every single one of them, stops dispensing beer. Similarly, if you carbonate beer in your brewing setup as we do over here in’t shed, or ferment under pressure as some do, then without CO2 your process comes to a halt.
As ever with these problems we’ve looked for a solution and whilst we don’t always find a solution we have in this case; we’ve done a deal with Hobby Brew and are now their appointed agent for beer gas on the Fylde Coast and surrounding area. We can supply C02, 30/70 and 60/40 beer gas.
The deal is a £70 bottle deposit with refills (cylinder exchanges actually) priced ay £36 for mixed gas and £35 for CO2.
This is definitely a step away from finding a bottle on Freebay and then exchanging it for a full with the gas company or getting a cylinder from a pal who has a pub, we get that completely, but it is a guarantee of supply locally and you won’t be stuck for beer gas.
We supply and fit home bar equipment across the Fylde Coast. If you want one beer or half a dozen beers on your home bar we can help.
Single Moretti
Cracking Home Bar
Moretti, San Miguel and Stella
I’m generally reluctant to share images of people’s private spaces but there’s some amazing creativity out there. These jobs are usually the same setup, a two product cooler with whatever product font the customer specifies and new gauges throughout. Sometimes they are new fonts, other times we might have some really nice used ones and we can adjust the price according to what we fit.
Badges can be a little bit bonkers so those Moretti ones can cost £25 if they need to be bought separately! We can usually supply those from stock though at no extra charge.
The expensive item is the cooler. Our ‘go to’ is the new two product hydrocarbon unit for home bar installs. These are compact, so perfect in a home bar setting where space is normally at a premium, and amazingly efficient at getting down to temperature. The downside of these is the lead time, the manufacturer is currently giving us a lead time of 12 weeks which is an awful long time to wait. Our workaround for that is to install one of our rental units and switch it out when the new cooler arrives; again we never look to charge for that.
We always specify a two product cooler even when the customer is only looking for a single product setup for their home bar. There are a couple of very good reasons for this. Firstly, the single product unit only develops 2.2kg of ice whereas the two out produces 5kg. A 5kg ice bank is going to keep up with most home bar settings, 2.2kg might start to struggle with prolonged use or warm weather. It’s also future proofing; it’s very simple to add a second product to your home bar if the cooler has a second coil.
There’s no compromise right through our home bar setups. We always fit secondary regulators as well as primaries, we never fit used regulators, and we warranty everything for 12 months.
If the customer is trying to work to a price then we will try to work with them, if we have a good used cooler available for instance, but even when we fit a used cooler we put a 12 month warranty on it ourselves.
Price wise, we are looking at £1200 or so for a full home bar setup. There are cheaper options out there and if price is your only criteria then we are probably not the right supplier for you. If you want a local company that will do what they say they’re going to do and will stand behind their work then maybe that’s us.
