Keg Cooler Information

You declare, "I want the coldest beer in town!"... The best time to make this statement is prior to ordering your walk in cooler! Normal system sizing provides product temperatures of 38 degrees. In a standard walk in cooler system, trying to achieve lower temperatures will lead to extended run times, frozen evaporator coils, and eventual premature equipment failure.

To properly handle these lower temperature requirements, you should consider a keg cooler refrigeration system. When a system operates below 35 degrees, frost and ice will begin to build up on an evaporator coil. Frost restricts the airflow across the coil if it builds up. Your walk in cooler and product temperature will rise as ice formation increases.

A keg cooler system features freezer style evaporator coils instead. These coils feature wider fin spacing and heated defrost elements to counteract frost formation, so your keg cooler and product temperatures will be stable. You will be able to hold any temperature you specify up front with a properly sized system—so let us know!

If your keg cooler will include glass display doors, you may want to consider the heated glass option. Even if your store is air-conditioned, your glass display doors will be more susceptible to sweating without this option. Unfortunately, glass heat is not an option that can be added on at a later time—it must be included at the time of order.

A keg cooler is one of many different variations of beverage coolers SRC manufactures. We sell keg coolers to a number of businesses: restaurants, food service stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, and more!

How to Minimize Walk in Cooler Installation Costs

The more of the walk in cooler installation you can do, the more you will be able to minimize the overall installation expense!

Refrigeration is a highly technical trade: years of specialized education, apprenticeship, and ongoing training are necessary. A good technician will require support equipment and tools when he makes house calls; his hourly fees can get quite costly. You should try to focus expensive labor specifically on what they do best! By asking others to assist you with simple assembly tasks, you can minimize costs by hundreds of dollars. The same guidelines should apply to your electricians.

For anyone with basic carpentry skills, the assembly of our walk in coolers, freezers, and/or display doors is fairly easily and straightforward. The most important skills one could have would be the ability to work with a tape measure and carpenter’s level!

As a rule of thumb, you can budget anywhere from 25% to 40% of your overall walk in cooler equipment cost towards a “turn-key” installation. Amounts can vary due to site conditions, compressor location, and the labor costs in your region. Your walk in cooler installation may appear daunting, but the knowledge that you can save hundreds of dollars is a great motivator to get involved!

How Soon Can I Receive a Walk in Cooler from SRC?

Once you have arrived at a decision on the best walk in cooler for your business, we will begin! You can assist us in processing the order by returning signed approvals of all computer drawings and related sales paperwork in a timely manner. Normally you will receive your walk in cooler within a few weeks (depending on location and size of the project, of course), but if you need it sooner, let us know—we’re happy to do whatever we can to rush an order. We can ask many of our long-term vendors to expedite your order and release the equipment early if you are under time constraints. We can frequently gain weeks on a project.

In most cases, we manufacture our insulated walk in cooler panels quicker than our door supplier can ship. Therefore, we do our best to time production so that all of your shipments arrive around the same time. However, it may be beneficial for a rush order to ship your walk in cooler panels ahead of time. This way, you can assemble your walk in cooler and continue with site work until you receive the walk in cooler doors.

When all is said and done, you will be left with a walk in cooler or freezer that will serve you well in the long run—not something that you must make do with until your next purchase.

Advice to Customers Purchasing Walk in Coolers

SRC employees will always do our best to help customers in numerous different situations. Many customers have just signed a lease for a new building, while many other customers are planning for a future remodel. Some customers come to us with older, failing walk in coolers purchased from other companies. Whatever your situation, SRC can help! For walk in cooler remodels and new construction, our detailed computer drawings allow your contractors to continue working while waiting for your order to arrive.

Always remember, the walk in cooler you are purchasing will be the focal point of your business. With proper care, your walk in cooler or freezer will last for the next two decades. Purchase decisions based solely upon availability may solve an immediate "crisis", but seldom proves wise as a long-term solution.

We advise our customers to initially take the element of time out of the equation. Choose a walk in cooler that best fulfills your needs both presently and in the future. Remember that you will be depending on your walk in cooler or freezer for many years to come!

SRC Walk in Cooler for Ice Brigade (Food Network)!

SRC recently constructed a walk in cooler for Food Network's new show 'Ice Brigade' (airs in April 2011)! Ice Brigade will feature Ice Sculptures Limited, a company that makes ice sculptures. Steve and John visited the set in Grand Rapids, MI and installed the backdrop that will be used to do the show's interviews. They met the producers and the cast of the new show.

Check Out the New SRC Refrigeration Blog!

We have implemented a brand new blog within SRC Refrigeration's main website! There will be plenty of posts presenting information on walk in coolers, walk in freezers, reach in coolers, beverage coolers, display doors, and more! We also will be posting many pictures. Check it out!

SRC Refrigeration blog: your source for everything about walk in coolers!

SRC's Goals for Our Walk in Coolers

SRC Refrigeration strives to manufacture and sell walk in coolers and freezers with the highest quality components available. We want our walk in coolers to give your company years of benefits and reliability.

We have invested greatly in our manufacturing equipment and processes; this helps control the continual escalating material and labor costs.

Our greatest challenge as a manufacturer is to ensure our message gets to you, the customer: we provide the best value walk in coolers.

Our competitors, on the other hand, prefer to focus on price over value. The details they provide about their walk in coolers are ambiguous. We have yet to be surprised by our findings after purchasing our competitors’ products—walk in coolers marketed as “just the same as SRC” appear similar in pictures, but the actual major components differ significantly. SRC will provide detailed equipment specifications to help you compare; we will explain the various advantages and disadvantages of different components. This way, you can ensure you are making an informed decision on the walk in cooler you are purchasing. All companies should provide this detailed information up front—if they don’t, ask! In the end, we’re confident SRC will remain your preferred choice.

Our goal is two-fold:

#1) We will not be undersold!

#2) We will not sacrifice the quality of our walk in coolers to make a sale!

If you feel someone presents you with what appears to be a “better deal”, do yourself a favor and give us a call. You’ll discover SRC is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise high-pressure industry.