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Greg Nolan
New Member
Username: Greg
Post Number: 106
Registered: 06-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 02:11 am: | 
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Where is the best internet outlet for 5 gallon cornies? Seems like a guy should be able to find cornies for under 20 bucks. |
Gerry Pflepsen
New Member
Username: Gpflepsen
Post Number: 3
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 02:44 am: |
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Believe it or not, I have bought them direct from Pepsico bottling, my local distibutor. They come full of soda, and cost $17. No deposit, no need to return them. I quiz them every time, and it's always the same, "It's yours, you can have it. You don't need to bring it back." I leave kind of slack jawed every time.
And you know they are good and hold pressure. |
George Schmidt
Junior Member
Username: Gschmidt
Post Number: 41
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 02:49 am: |
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I wish my local Pepsi would do that. I've asked both 7-up and pepsi here in Indy and neither one has pre-mix available. |
Gerry Pflepsen
New Member
Username: Gpflepsen
Post Number: 4
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 03:20 am: |
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That's the deal, they are phasing out pre-mix cornies and going with boxes of syrup. Neither Coke or 7UP carry the cornies anymore. It must cost them more to handle and recondition returns than to just let them go. |
Paul Muth
New Member
Username: Pjmuth
Post Number: 17
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 04:13 am: |
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Greg,
My LHBS has them for $14.62 each or $13.29 in lots of 4. It is ebrew.com .. Yea, I am affiliated, It's my LHBS.. You know, the place where I buy stuff? lol...
I know there are other places that have inexpensive deals too.
HTH
PJ |
Carl McCoy
Junior Member
Username: Ib4it
Post Number: 51
Registered: 08-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 09:46 am: |
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http://www.homebrewing.org/item2.htm
Check this thread out.
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi |
Joseph Listan
Member
Username: Poonstab
Post Number: 153
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 10:52 am: |
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Everyone but homebrewers is phasing them out. How hard is it going to be to find parts in ten years? Will poppets be $18 each? |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1060
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 01:12 pm: |
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"Will poppets be $18 each?"
I'm not taking any chances - that's why I own ~20 of them.
PTA |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 419
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 01:29 pm: |
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Right now 5 gallon corny kegs are relatively cheap, although the price has edged up in the past year as the Chinese have greatly increased purchases of scrap stainless. Joseph, you may be correct that the cost will be considerably higher in ten years when the soda bottlers have entirely phased them out. But that's no reason not to buy them now at a good price and keep some around for spare parts. |
Connie
Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 206
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 02:57 pm: |
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Is rcbequip.com still in business, I can't get their site to come up. |
Greg Nolan
Junior Member
Username: Greg
Post Number: 107
Registered: 06-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 02:13 am: |
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Thanks for the help guys. I went to Pepsi today and purchased 20 gallons of pop for 90 bucks. They didn't ask for name or deposit and didn't care if I brought them back. |
Gerry Pflepsen
New Member
Username: Gpflepsen
Post Number: 7
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 02:48 am: |
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What flavor? I've been getting root beer. The neighbor kids think I'm cool. 
I had to replace the lid o-ring on one, but the others cleaned (smell too) up with PBW soaking.
(Message edited by gpflepsen on September 01, 2004) |
Jared Cook
Intermediate Member
Username: Jared
Post Number: 399
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 04:03 am: |
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That sounds like a good way to get kegs, but how the hell do you drink that much soda? If I'm putting any fattening, cold, carbonated liquid in me, it better be beer... |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1063
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 04:53 am: |
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"but how the hell do you drink that much soda?"
I, on the average, drink almost 5 liters of soda a day - granted it is all diet - but wrong none the less. The place I work at has free soda as a "benefit".
I only drink water as an ingredient. I need to get liquids some how.
PTA |
Jared Cook
Intermediate Member
Username: Jared
Post Number: 401
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 05:03 am: |
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That's funny. The place I work has the same benefit. I just completely forgot that I drink a rediculous ammount of Diet DrPepper every day. Not near 5 liters, but I guess I CAN see how you could drink that much soda. I wouldn't drink soda at home though. I have to drink beer at night to balance out the coffee and Diet DP I drink all day.  |
Vance Barnes
Advanced Member
Username: Vancebarnes
Post Number: 967
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 01:45 pm: |
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Did you see the recent study that said that 1 soda a day (not diet of course) doubles your risk of diabetes? Not sure your "benefits" are really good for you. Hope the medical insurance is good! |
Gerry Pflepsen
New Member
Username: Gpflepsen
Post Number: 8
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 03:37 pm: |
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The root beer gets drank, but I have dumped out 4 gallons of Sierra Mist before. |
Hornbrau
Junior Member
Username: Hornbrau
Post Number: 244
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 06:39 pm: |
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Damn, my kids would love it if we had root beer on tap, and free kegs as a benefit? I'm going to have to call my local pepsi shop! |
Chumley
Senior Member
Username: Chumley
Post Number: 2199
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 08:02 pm: |
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Five liters of diet soda a day ?!? This explains a lot, PTA. You shouldn't worry about getting Alzheimer's from brewing in aluminum pots, because the time you get to be 60, there won't be any thing left in your brain left to infect.  |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1066
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 02:31 am: |
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I also have the bladder of a water buffalo. I bet my brother once I could fill up a 32 oz soda cup - I won, with a couple extra oz that overflowed... ahhh good times, good times.
PTA |
Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 3434
Registered: 01-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 06:50 pm: |
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PTA, TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!!
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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Hophead
Advanced Member
Username: Hophead
Post Number: 969
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 08:41 pm: |
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Great, now I'm going to have to try that, thanks.
I drink about 3 stupor big gulps of diet coke a day, which would be about a gallon, so I'm under 5 litres too, barely... |
Richard Nye
Member
Username: Yeasty_boy
Post Number: 227
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 12:41 am: |
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PTA - Impressive...but how FAR can you go??
I once knew a guy that could pee over a stop sign. |
Jared Cook
Intermediate Member
Username: Jared
Post Number: 404
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 01:16 am: |
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when I was in kindergarten, we used to try to pee on the ceiling of the restroom. The boys' restroom was wild because it was the one place our teacher couldn't follow us in. Oh yeah, we often made it. It's amazing how far a young kid can pee. |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1071
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 02:29 am: |
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I'm afraid I'm no longer a distance "runner", I go for volume now.
I do, however, have fond memories of trying to pee over the stall dividers in grade school and into the next urinal...
mophead - Let me know how you do!
PTA |
Jared Cook
Intermediate Member
Username: Jared
Post Number: 405
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 03:36 am: |
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LMAO! Such good memories. |
Bill Walton
Junior Member
Username: Vladie
Post Number: 27
Registered: 06-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 04:19 am: |
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Since this is officially out of hand, I have a friend who can stand at the foul line on a basketball court and pee through the hoop. I didn't believe it either until I witnessed it. |
Richard Nye
Member
Username: Yeasty_boy
Post Number: 231
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 10:21 am: |
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Did he do that at halftime? |
Hophead
Advanced Member
Username: Hophead
Post Number: 970
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 04:21 pm: |
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Bill, step away from the mushrooms...
I'm going to have to call foul on the hoop dream, not w/o some kind of additional hardware...
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tim roth
Member
Username: Hopdude
Post Number: 135
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 08:34 pm: |
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PTA- Next time you are in town, we do have outdoor hoops! Hmmmmm........I wonder. Cheers, Tim |
Bill Walton
Junior Member
Username: Vladie
Post Number: 29
Registered: 06-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 - 03:31 pm: |
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Sorry Hophead, no mushrooms. Also, it depends on whether you count about 14 beers as additional hardware...
By the way, I ran halftime show idea past my buddy and he's willing to give it a shot (so to speak), you have any bookings for him Richard? |
Bill Walton
Junior Member
Username: Vladie
Post Number: 30
Registered: 06-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 - 03:33 pm: |
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Oh yeah, sorry Greg. I hope you find your Cornies some day. |
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