Undoubtedly, the Philips is the best investment by far. The equipment is as good as the Krups B90, but it is in the details here and there (eg, metal tap, side-opening takes charge from above, much simpler and cheaper beer procurement ...) a little better designed, a bit more practical in handling, more flexible and, although somewhat more complex built cheaper in the beers, and finally even cheaper.
Lt. total approx. 160 reviews in Germany and the USA is the Philips reliable than the Krups.
I can not confirm because I have tapped the Philips only 4 barrels that.
The Biermaxx to be the best cooling-dispensing system for party-cans, so I have them too. Since I have to shake their heads, all plastic and plastic only, no temperature display, a lot of parts for the assembly but no guidance ...
Handling is also bad ... Since the Beer splashing everywhere when Connector Connect, the plastic tap is shaky and the CO² consumption into perspective the costs. It is a low cost system, the only advantage is the very low prices and the variety barrels.
If that is the winner, then it can only be horrible on all remaining dispensers ...
Finally, more recently, the company provides. Saveur beers in Frankreih an (expensive) universal home Zapf cooling system on, with a little less equipment than the Philips. Lt advertising text can thus connect all the barrels. I can not say anything because I do not have this facility and also did not intend to buy.
My Conclusion:
Those looking for a very good, comfortable dispensing system and is not so short of cash, accesses to Philips.
If you like tinkering, would be angry sometimes but is short of cash, accesses to Biermaxx.
Anyone looking for a very exclusive and very expensive investment (purchase and operation) and is happy with the 4 available beers of the Heineken Group, reaches for the Krups BeerTender B90.
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DATA & PERFORMANCE
Dispensing system with integrated cooling for special 6-liter drums, launch: 2005. It is a patented system of Benelux brewery Gigants Inbev in cooperation with Philips, as sole owner, so that competitors, these barrels are not intended to provide, and also can.
Cooling time at room temperature (23 ° C): Between 12 and 15 hours, Maximum Operating Temperature: 32 ° C. Flow rate: 2 l / min, maximum operating pressure: 1.5 bar, operating with compressed air via el pump without CO² cartridges..
. Dimensions with tap and drip tray (W x H x D): 286 x 444 x 493 mm.
Weight: 8320 g.
Empty weight of the barrels: 1.200 g, dimensions of the barrels (height x diameter): 273 x 199 mm.
Total weight ready for use: 15.52 kg.
Power consumption: 70 W.
Temperature Display: LEDs, digital display. Level indication: bar graph, electronically.
There were and are different versions, the HD3620 is probably the top model, the display above.
DELIVERY
Cooling-dispensing system with removable tap, removable drip tray.
Operating Instructions English, German, Francais, Nederlands, Italiano, each 20 pages min. 23 black and white drawings and 10 advice for proper pin. Well illustrated, very complete, very understandable, readable without magnifier / microscope. No FAQ / Troubleshooting.
2 Self-adhesive, illustrated instructions for connecting the drums (I have my outside, attached to the left and right, inside the engliche instruction is standard already glued).
2 magnetic decorative buttons (neutral) for the tap.
AVAILABLE BEERS
The statement "In a variety of beers available" is extremely exaggerated: Only available are 6 beers from Germany: Becks, Becks Gold, Hasseröder Premium, Löwenbrau, Franziskaner Weissbier, Diebels Alt. It is quite clear that any ncht Birverleger performs all varieties. If you're lucky, the wholesale trade leads near 4 varieties.
For this purpose at specific providers and not all year available:
- Beers from Belgium: Leffe blonde, Jupiter Pils
- Beers from Holland: Bavaria, Hertog.
Are no longer available: Dinkelacker CD-Pils, Diebels Pils.
Hard to find beers (only abroad): Hoegaarden Wit, Leffe bruine, Leffe Ruby Leffe royal, Stella Artois, Dommelsch, Grolsch, Diekirch Premium and Grand Cru.
Future-proof
This is an exclusive system, similar to coffee in order to exclude competitors. The restrictive licensing policy entails certain risks for the consumer, similar to the video system of Sony Betamax, which was technically better, but swept away by VHS and withdrawn from the market (so I stay at about 800 cassettes sit).
The system was introduced in 2005 exclusively to address the declining beer sales. As competitors have to stay outside, the future supply depends solely on the marketing decision of the single license owner and provider Inbev. There are already several beers were taken with insufficient sales of this system from the market (Dinkelacker, Diebel Pils). Thus, the offer does not increase but rather from.
The acquirer must also be aware that similar to inkjet printers, the main burden is not on the acquisition of the dispenser, but the purchase of beer kegs.
Cost Considerations
At 5-L-plate-beer barrels the liters of beer from about 1.50 euros costs.
In Perfect-Draft-6-L-Pressure drums the liter costs significantly more than double. Even compared to beer bottles PerfectDraft is ever to buy the most expensive type of beer. The deposit is 5 euro for the barrel and 1.50 for Kist, which holds the Fas.
There are also reasons:
Firstly Inbev argued in a written request that the beer was better. This must not be taken literally. It is extremely unlikely that this specific batches are brewed and also the premium beer for bottle and sheet-barrel bottling is already producing extremely high quality and carefully, or the other beer as worse? Probably not!
Realistically, it is likely that the development of the system has devoured millions who need to be amortized and which is the beer for example from Bremen to Liege for filling and cut back. Even that should not contribute to a better quality as in the line-Aquavit, and if that were so, continually millions of hectoliters zwichen Palermo and Helsinki were to be on the go. But it is certain that the cost a lot of money.
Moreover, the filling of special barrels with security is likely to be more expensive than beer bottles with tens of thousands of units per hour.
Also it may be assumed that the cost of a barrel on the 5 Euro are a deposit.
So there are technical and economic reasons why Perfect Draft barrels make the liters of beer significantly more expensive.
Thankfully, there are also advantages for the consumer - see below - that causes PerfectDraft is not convicted by the start to fail.
Advantages and disadvantages, alternative
The disadvantages of PerfectDraft are clearly defined and enumerated quickly:
- Extremely high price of beer
- Very limited range
plus a eforderliche cooling between 12 and 15 hours. So if you do not have a giant refrigerator or cooling chamber, one can at a party only a very limited number of guests indulge. That leaves PerfectDraft a system for demanding individualists or smaller events in the close circle of friends.
OPERATION AND RELIABILITY
With regard to the reliability of the plant, are reported in the forums only mainly on failures of temperature and fuel gauge. This can be resolved by switching off and switching on possible. In individual cases, reported outages after 1.5 years or more.
Reports of bland beer are individual phenomena and are probably due to a leaky system, possibly due to incorrect operation. Some owners report of air leaking water pumps, although this probably disappeared after the 3rd barrel, suggesting a verbeserte handling.
As for me, so I have to report on failures of the display, especially after loading a barrel, until 4 glass. After that Anzege is stable and you wake each degree Celsius personally, roughly every hour. I suppose it's up to the sensor, which is clearly visible on the rear of the interior. Because the device has no switch, it helps the socket out and put in. From the 4th Glass everything runs reliably.
The Adapters of 1 barrel is a bit cumbersome. One must not forget the mitgeliefeten with each barrel tube and it is possible that the beer will not flow. In an emergency, the repeated procedure, then it's ok. After that, everything works better. So experience plays a role.
If you have practiced to connect a couple of times, everything is routine, easy and secure.
The cooling system is therefore not the most powerful, but extremely quiet. In return, the pump with a metallic noise is noticeable, which is not to überhöhren in 10 m distance. However, the only takes a few seconds and is therefore not really annoying.
The hygiene is super solved because with each barrel, a new hose is supplied. So you Brucht not flush and clean, which usually is really expensive at dispensers.
The use of new barrels and tubing is puzzling only the first time. Then it seems to me no more difficult before, but to use as a battery in a charger.
The facility is completely easy to clean, it has the tap unit will briefly rinsed under the tap, and the drip tray only. Easy does it not really!
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantages of PerfectDraft are also enumerated quickly and clearly defined:
First, the beer stays fresh longer up to 30 days, on the other hand the owners rave about the perfect temperature and flavor of the beer gezaptes. As concepts such as "unique", "gorgeous", are "glass fogs up beautifully", etc. often used. The number of statements allowed a representative picture and is very uniform: Alone at Amazon awarded 74% of the buyers the top grade, the rest at least 4 stars. So a homogeneous assessment has rarely.
I can confirm DSS, with proper use, the draft beer has absolutely professional quality, good tempered with fine and solid foam, delicate flavor and fine carbon dioxide, no Vergleih with Flschenbier with coarse carbon dioxide addition. It is truly unique for the money to get this professional quality. For connoisseurs, an absolute must!
The fact is that after one week as time, the beer still tastes fresh, and although no CO² print cartridges are used, because the dispenser pumps air as a bargaining chip. The beer is in a plastic bag inside the steel container, like a wineskin. It is absolutely important that the drums are thoroughly and hermetically connected. I schage vigorously so that it clicks right fist on the power take-off mechanism.
In the last 2 liters foaming is slightly less than at the beginning, but still more than adequate and of course no comparison with party doses where only rausläuft a clear broth ...
It is true that a 6-liter drum is extremely expensive. 5-L-plate drums are available in summer at the discounter to 7 euros (eg now Bitburger or Warsteiner for 6.99), however, once they have begun immediately be drunk, and even then no longer taste the last 4 glasses and hardly form foam , For the first 4 have too much pressure and too much foam. In my Biermaxx with cooling and CO² cartridges it is OK, but the beer splashing around while Anchluss ... The Krups B90 is the Philis HD3620 very similar but the barrels are still expensive, there are only 4 varieties and I musss from North let come -France ...
The only alternatives provide dispensers with CO² cylinders, 11- or 25-gallon drums, but that's too much for me, too heavy, too expensive and also there is the choice very limited. The Philips, Krups or Biermaxx you can still convey to neighbors in the wheelbarrow. With a current transformer 12-240V can they even connect the cigarette lighter and cones on the beach.
It's a real shame that the whole beer industry can not agree on a gröere broadening this system.
Certainly the competition would lead to a price reduction, but promote the broadening of PerfectDraft and multiply the sales volumes.
CONCLUSION
For the system itself, there are 5 stars, 1 star deduction for expensive follow-up costs and the lean range of only 6 varieties.
The small PerfectDraft system brings draft beer in 100 -% - sulfuric professional quality with no ifs and buts.
But the price is really absolutely OK
Nevertheless, the coal for the unit and the expensive beer must have been about, and that is certainly a system that can not afford any.
However, if a high priority at home on a perfect beer, is so niht disappointed, I can probably attest to the best of its knowledge and belief.
Personally, I would have the system not purchased because of financial reasons. But as I get free, I'll buy the expensive drums on and enjoy at home with Pantofffeln and pajamas a quality that is usually only offered in pubs at full clothing and carpool.
I even think about it after 2 or 3 of these facilities to purchase in order to constantly have a choice between old, Pils and wheat beer that would be the real luxury!
ITEMS OF INTEREST
It's worth it to do research in beer forums, because there you can learn from real experts as brewmaster and brewery staff very interesting background on this dispenser and associated beers that have been around. Are 8 years in the market.
Here is a short résumé of the results that I have incorporated above:
The facility is a child of the brewery giant Interbrew, comes from Holland and Belgium and is only suitable for beers that group. Other brands such as Warsteiner, Veltins, Krumbach, Budweiser, etc., do not purchase the expensive license and market their own system with for example 5 or 11 liters.
