The annual Christmas get-together was held in Messy Towers on the 26th December this year, along with the Pineapple and Cheese Hedgehogs and the Ferrero Rocher we planned to spoil the guests even further by investing in a Heineken 5L Keg. I’ve had real kegs in the house before complete with gas and coolers but this is a party fellow that you can pop in the fridge with no extra setup needed. It is sizeable enough but should fit into the fridge with a little forward planning. However it will probably be at the expense of something less important, like the children’s food.
The time had come to crack it open. The tap just clicks into the top, you press down and pour. Very easy so far. We got a glass of foam. Tried again. More foam. Five litres later all it would do was pour foam. Five litres of foam and a lot of thirsty guests. If the same thing hadn’t happened last year I would have thought it was bad luck or maybe pilot-error but these things are a true nightmare. Luckily we had backup tins of beer. Never buy one.
15/01/2009 at 3:07 pm Permalink
I think it’s down to particular batches of these little kegs. I opened one for my brother on 27th Dec, having left it outside the family home in the cold for the previous few days and it poured llike a dream. In fact if was great up until he finished it before he headed back to the UK on 01 Jan! I’ve used one in my own house after chilling in the fridge and it also was a foamer. They are gimmicky and probably lead to all sorts of alcoholism.
FYI I saw them for sale in a Spar in Lanzarote last March and priced at EUR34 for 5 litres. . . .lucky stars, eh?!