PerfectDraft costs compared to the pub. How much does the PerfectDraft really cost?

The PerfectDraft gives you access to draft beer at home. There's not much better than that. But how does the PerfectDraft costs compare to pub prices for your favorite draft beer.
So how much does the PerfectDraft machine cost? How much do the Kegs cost? And how much are the running costs for the PerfectDraft?
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[@SennaMadeF1]

Living in York I can say that’s not a bad estimate of cost! Good craic you fella, enjoy your videos and would slurp a cold one with you 👍🏼

[@BigBaldReviews]

Good stuff! 👍 Thanks! Well, at least hopefully soon we'll all soon be able to start slurping again in our local! 👍🍺

[@imamario]

Well Done. A really thoughtful cost comparing tool.

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thank you! 👍

[@pcxcado]

Well done on this. You have really put a lot of work in!

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thank you!

[@adamgronow13]

Another great video and thanks for the website cost calculator. I look forward to the Spaten Oktoberfest review, keep up the good work 👏

[@BigBaldReviews]

Cheers Adam! 👍🍻

[@jnmmoore]

Bloody great work mate.

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thanks Jon 👍🍻

[@LeonSh4dow]

One important thing I think you may have missed and I found out from my experience, is the fact that at the pub, you are generally only paying for your own personnal consumption. Wheras as soon as you invite a couple of mates over for a beer or two, your beer price calculations go off the charts. You easily get through a keg within one sitting. So either 1) It's gonna be an very expensive experience owning the machine 2) You convince your mates to get a PD too, so you take it in turns and share the price 3) Be a tight git and charge your mates for each beer 😅 or 4) Hide your PD from your guests and get some back up bottles/tins in the fridge lol

[@bazzab44]

Mine is turning up tomorrow so this is really helpful. 👍

[@BigBaldReviews]

Good stuff! Enjoy fella! 👍🍻

[@rob8540]

Great video on the Philips PD. If you are on holidays in The Netherlands you can get the Jupiler and Hertog Jan kegs for around 19,70 pounds in the supermarkets (including deposit of 5 euro). BTW i have the basic Philips PD 3600

[@stevegray8038]

I bought my perfect draft early December 2019. It cost £170. I have bought 50 kegs (34 different types of beers therefore different cost per keg) but allowing for the beer tokens I'm averaging £22.57 per 10.5 pint keg. Filter in running costs this adds 84p per keg and initial purchase £3.40 per keg (though this is obviously reducing with every keg purchased). Total so far £26.81 per 10.5 pints. Bet you can't get Lowenbrau Oktoberfest at £2.55 a pint! It does not compare well to cheap supermarket beers and lagers such as Carling etc. but I'm paying £2.55 for very good quality beers. I ruled out the Krupps Blade - I can't fit the kegs in the fridge to chill down and not yet much choice of beers. And the 2 litre torps are simply too expensive per pint and too small.

[@martinfox341]

Great vlog, you are one of the best on here ! And as for £5.19 a pint in London, im just outside London, in Wokingham and its £5.89 a pint , keep it up mate

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thanks Martin! What type of beer does your £5.89 get you? Cheers! 👍🍻

[@glenoxman7904]

I never imagined it was going to be cheap, I bought it to get good quality beerage, however I will go to the website now and have a go on the calculator 😁👍🏻

[@darronvine4387]

I’m seriously considering the PD as an alternative to the beer engine and bag in box setup I have in the shed. I have an old hand pump which holds half a pint of beer at ambient temperature to drink before the cold drink reaches the glass 🤦🏼‍♂️. The second pint is then getting warm while you drink the first.

[@Dmacca2489]

Awesome tool to use 👍🍺

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thanks for trying it out! 👍🍻

[@arthurhughes42]

I plugged my PD into a power meter for a few weeks and at Jan2023 electricity costs, it worked out at about £150 per annum just for electricity.

[@BigBaldReviews]

Tonight's video is on this fella! 👍🍻

[@raymondtrainor3426]

I live in Stockholm and bought one of these 6 months ago. Buying the kegs online can be a bit expensive for me with the shipping costs. Although the kegs are a bit more expensive, it's still a lot cheaper than drinking in the bars over here. Once got hit with €11 for a pint!

[@BigBaldReviews]

€11 a pint! 😳 Hope it was good! 🍻

[@gavinjames1800]

Hello big bald reviewer. Please review the Kwak on perfect draft. Might I recommend twiglets and bombay mix for snackage. Keep up the stellar work

[@BigBaldReviews]

I want to review Kwak. Just don't want it to be the last review I ever do! 🤣 I will though! And I reckon I'd go for a Bombay mix, good call! 👍🍻

[@GustavoGarufi]

Hey yo, I'm Venezuelan, trust me, you don't want to go to Venezuela jajjajaj. Love your videos dude

[@BigBaldReviews]

😂 Cheers fella! 👍🍻

[@eddymintball1950]

Congrats on getting the website up and running pal 👍.. have had a look and all looks good but I can’t get the little pic of u in the corner no matter what I click 😂👍

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thanks Eddy! 🤣 Think that's probably for the best, might put more people off! 👍🍻

[@hadesvondoom6501]

Love the website might cost me a bit as I like the stronger ones

[@BigBaldReviews]

Yeah, they are a bit tasty! 😉

[@stravinskymusic]

If you turn it off, either to save power or to stop drinking (haha!) does it reset the timer to 30 days? Just ordered mine this morning thanks for the channel it's awesome!

[@BigBaldReviews]

Good question! To be honest I'm not sure! I'll have to try it out and let you know! Cheers 👍🍻

[@tonydunphy4962]

The biggest thing for me is that the beers aren’t as carbonated as they are in pubs. The beers are a little flat for me but I still enjoy them but they’re just not quite as good as a pub pint. Keep up the good videos mate

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thanks Tony! 🍻👍

[@nsoper19]

I do like the idea of one of these machines, but I also really want to support local pubs. My wife won't allow me to do both sadly.

[@BigBaldReviews]

Support local pubs all the way! 👍🍻

[@mbarker1958]

It really is a no-brainier. In Wiltshire a Stella is £4.30 and Stella is now ABV 4.6% down from 5.2 a few years ago, so Interbrew are saving the tax, giving you cheaper beer for the same price. I lived in Germany until 2020, price of 1 can of Hosten Pils ABV 5.0% .79/.89€, franziskaner weisßbier .89 - .99€ per bottle or can, supermarket beer .39 to .59€ per can, all ABV 5.0%. British people are being overcharged for watery beer like Carling when there are so many good beers out there. Pure draft is not cheap but it is less expensive than the supermarket or pub. One compelling reason for me is I do not end up with loads of cans or bottles to recycle or throw away. At least in Germany the supermarket is obliged to take them back and you can reclaim the tax as cash. In Britain they are thrown in the bin or thrown on the side of the road. We are missing a trick in this country. At a bar in Hamburg a 500ml glass is €4.30, Hamburg is a major city. BTW, the situation in Venezuela is so dire, they do not make beer there any more. They cannot afford the ingredients

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thanks Mark! Good insights there fella! 👍🍻

[@nalamisseb4305]

I've got a krupps sub, but I'm grabbing the oktoberfest deal on pay day 👍

[@BigBaldReviews]

Thinking of getting a Krupp's at some point as well. Has some good torps available 👍🍻

[@nalamisseb4305]

@@BigBaldReviews they're expanding the range all the time, the Affligem, lagunitas IPA and the birra morreti baffo d'Oro were my faves, might be best waiting till black Friday to get a decent deal hopefully

[@BigBaldReviews]

Good thinking! Cheers! 🍻

[@christoph1246]

I only miss pub beer for a good real ale. Most lagers are disappointing.

[@BigBaldReviews]

I agree. I'm lucky to have a great local brewery where I can get some great real ales 👍🍻

[@KermitKeir]

I’d watch the rest of this, but am off to Caracas...

[@BigBaldReviews]

😂

[@paulpeirson65]

what are the keg dimensions mate, be looking to buy a fridge to suit when I purchase a PD? thanks

[@BigBaldReviews]

Hi Paul, you're looking at 27cm hight and 20cm in diameter 👍🍻

[@paulpeirson65]

@@BigBaldReviews thanks mate 👍

[@user-sd9es4ws9i]

Any chance of putting Derby in the price comparison? Cool video 🍻

[@BigBaldReviews]

No worries, I'll take a look. Any idea on the ave prices in Derby pubs? Say for a Stella? 🍻

[@user-sd9es4ws9i]

I’d say about £4ish

[@BigBaldReviews]

Derby is now in the list 👍

[@user-sd9es4ws9i]

Cheers 🍻

[@totscelticforever5400]

What’s would you recommend the best lager on the PD cheers 🍻

[@BigBaldReviews]

Spaten as standard. Seasonal Lowenbrau Oktoberfest 👍🍻

[@ojay1992]

Will Guinness ever do a keg for this ?

[@BigBaldReviews]

There's always a chance. But until recently with the launch of Dark Arts, there was no stout at all. My guess is that this would be more likely if a new PerfectDraft machine came out with a variable temperature control. Guinness are incredibly protective of the quality, which is fair play. And I don't think they would want people serving it up from a keg at a temperature that isn't optimal. Guinness should be more like 6 degrees c so a standard fridge would be about spot on for cans and bottles. When/if it comes to PD, it has to taste better than bottles and cans otherwise no one would bother with it.

[@paulmallon9292]

@@BigBaldReviews I think with Guinness they have to have proper gas regulation for the 2 part pour. The tap would have to be pressurised for a normal pour and to push the tap forward for the slow pour to top up the pint. Guinness would never hand this over to a third party company such as Phillips or beer hawk in my opinion. They would basically see that as giving over intellectual property for free as the pour of Guinness is actively used in their advertising campaigns. Apart from anything I don't think the perfect pint even would work for Guinness on even a physical level as the tap isnt sufficient for Guinness and it would need gas I think to work properly. Otherwise it would just pour boot black instantly and not go through the settling process. It would hugely negatively impact the quality. And yes, I'm Irish..... can you tell?

[@paulmallon9292]

@@BigBaldReviews unless they would do their 'Extra Stout' range on a keg which they actually have done in the past. They had it in the pub i worked in for a brief time. But the usual draft Guinness would be as described i think.

[@Dmacca2489]

How many pints do you try and have a week? So hard to stay off it lol

[@BigBaldReviews]

I save it to enjoy over the weekends mostly, apart from a few in the week 😉 🍻👍

[@Dmacca2489]

@@BigBaldReviews think I have about 8 pints a week atm 😬🍺

[@tortozza]

And local pubs will go out of business as everyone drinks at home alone. Sad.

[@BigBaldReviews]

Sad indeed. I hope it doesn't happen, but I think it's inevitable that some will will go out of business 😔 Nothing compares to the standard British pub.

[@Danny-qq5nr]

Frosty jack 7.4 vol 74p a pint 🍺

[@stevegray8038]

I bought my perfect draft early December 2019. It cost £170. I have bought 50 kegs (34 different types of beers therefore different cost per keg) but allowing for the beer tokens I'm averaging £22.57 per 10.5 pint keg. Filter in running costs this adds 84p per keg and initial purchase £3.40 per keg (though this is obviously reducing with every keg purchased). Total so far £26.81 per 10.5 pints. Bet you can't get Lowenbrau Oktoberfest at £2.55 a pint! It does not compare well to cheap supermarket beers and lagers such as Carling etc. but I'm paying £2.55 for very good quality beers. I ruled out the Krupps Blade - I can't fit the kegs in the fridge to chill down and not yet much choice of beers. And the 2 litre torps are simply too expensive per pint and too small.