well done Keg Watch!

[Growler]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16560677

 

[dennisking]

:clap: Scumbags, lets hope they get a proper sentence.

 

[BigYin]

so the suspects were arrested and then bailed - in my view, especially given the value of the goods involved, they should still be in jail, until their trial, and then if they are found guilty, they should have the full weight of the law thrown at them. Oxygen theives. :evil:

 

[BeerEagle]

I just emailed these guys about 100-odd kegs sitting in the garden of a closed-down pub near me.

I wonder if they pay a bounty?

 

[Vossy1]

Well done indeed

 

[Frisp]

so the suspects were arrested and then bailed - in my view, especially given the value of the goods involved,

I agree but unfortunately the law of the land says that everyone is entitled to bail except where the offence is Murder of Rape ( might include Kidnap but I cant quite rememebr) . All other Bail can only only be refused for some very specific reasons clearly those reasons weren't there on this one.. And value generally isnt one of them,

But good job Kegwatch,, Smelting beer kegs is costing the beer drinking public a flippin fortune each year.. We are the ones that ultimately pay for these thefts.

 

[Springer]

Scrap yard transactions need urgently updating. I weighed in a bit of lead and stainless just before Christmas at a reputable yard and was shocked at the money I recieved . The guy took down the van reg and then I had to sign to say who I was and where I lived. :)
Not a lot of checking has to be done.

S

 

[Frisp]

The guy took down the van reg and then I had to sign to say who I was and where I lived.

Not all yards are so fastidious in their record keeping, that why metal theft is so rife...

 

[Springer]

Reputable yard F, but I could have bought the van yesterday at auction or out of the paper, and turned into Mr. Mouse , Cheese Lane , Clink. Chesire. (Clink is a real place :shock: )
S

 

[shocker]

There was a spate of photo ID and address checking.....until the prices of metals started to fluctuate by as much as 400%....just now even the big , big concerns like Siimms are not too fastidious.....somethings going to give and soon .

 

[Frisp]

Clink. Chesire. (Clink is a real place )

Its also an area of Frome In Somerset ( Where Jensen Button comes from)

 

[jimw86]

First worth while thing they have done. It costs the the brewery about £5 per cask to get them back from keg watch and a majority of their work is picking up casks from tradeteam depots or pubs when, legally they have no right to do so. A cask can only be uplifted by the owner.

And the guys that do pick them up are not regulated or licensed, just some dodgy looking bloke in a white van.

Everyone in the trade despises keg watch, so if you ever find a cask, do the right thing and ring the brewery first.

 

[critch]

its £7.50 each now, and they were taken from pub cellars(from pubs we go to each bloody week i might add) by other draymen, just had to pick up 50 before christmas!

 

[Stone Cold]

it will all be plastic casks in a few years anyway.

 

[johnnyboy1965]

it will all be plastic casks in a few years anyway.

Ive often wondered how long it will te for breweries change over to disposable plastic barrels

 

[Vossy1]

They're already out there, gaining popularity by all accounts, though splits seem frequent :shock:

 

[shocker]

Thus...

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/30968 ... r_keg.html


or

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/44896 ... r_keg.html

and

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/44482 ... ith_M.html

the last one , plastic cornies from germany ?? :hmm:

 

[johnnyboy1965]

Maybe oak barrels will make a come back...but then again no.
How about disposable metal barrels?

 

[shocker]

There are thin metal kegs with plastic ends and poly bag liners out there ......

Soooo......not so far fetched really , just like a can of beer on a larger scale . I imagine some decades ago people were saying that metal tinnies could never take over from bottles . :hmm:

 

[jimw86]

its £7.50 each now, and they were taken from pub cellars(from pubs we go to each bloody week i might add) by other draymen, just had to pick up 50 before christmas!

I thought I was £7.50 but wasnt sure...We were talking about this at work and given the location of where these were found they more than likely came from a trade team depot that closed down last year. Keg watch were propably the ones who put them in the containers!

Critch, there is a big thing going on through our SIBA branch at them moment in relation to this. We think its only fair we should be able to charge Waverly, trade team ect if a cask is uplifted by them and then gets taken away by keg watch. We are also planning on setting up a central yard so that when any local brewery delivers to a pub they pick up each others casks and get dropped off in one place, rather than the filthy keg watch of the big companies uplifting them. We are down a good 75 on last year and most of them have ended up in depots.