In exactly 14 days from now, we’ll be hours into a party we’re hosting for my grandfather’s 95th birthday. About 60 people will attend, and appropriately, I’m in charge of the alcohol. 🙂
I had been thinking about getting a nice, good keg of beer for the guests. May be Sam Adams, or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Something like that. It’s been years since I got a keg. Hell, the last time I got a keg was in my college days – 1998 or so – in Delaware. A “good” keg was $85 and there was a $50 deposit for the tap+keg themsevles.
I get to the beer distributor yesterday, and inquire about a keg. For deposit on the tap, it was $75 from the beer distributor. Ok, that’s a little steep, but whatever. Then, I was told that New York State requires a $125 additional deposit on the keg. I asked what this covered, and apparently, the distributor slaps a sticker on the side of the keg. It’s a New York State form, and it’s sort of like the I.D. for that keg. If you return the keg without that sticker, New York State just earned $125.
So, I won’t be getting a keg of anything. 🙂 What I’m going to do is take that $150 I was going to spend on a good keg of Sam Adams, and by several different cases of good beer.
Who wins? Jeff, and the party people.
Who loses? New York State.
And yes, I will be returning all bottles for my .05 cents back on each can. 😉