Anyone have a good source for 6 or 8 product cold plates (for use with a jockey box)? And if you have experience with them, would you mind sharing? TIA!
Two wholesalers, Foxx Equipment and CBS Beverage. That will be the best price but it is strictly wholesale and you need an account. If you have a business and will be ordering other things it's worth it to open an account, otherwise no. You can also look to your local ma and pa soda retailer. If you have a generic provider in your area. A local restaurant supply store. Webstaurant.com is always very cheap. Micromatic of course, if you don't care how much you spend because that is pretty much guaranteed to be the most expensive. You need to buy all the fittings too, the plates will have threaded inserts for the barbed connections, so 12 to 16 fittings at a few dollars each. 6 or 8 product is asking too much for a J-Box. That's not a lot of residence time on ice for the beer. You know you get fast and sloppy pours with a J Box, but that is the trade off. 2 product is about the max. I have a large plate with 2 channels, it works as it supposed to. The more channels stuffed into the plate the less the length of each line on ice. It helps to have cold kegs as well. 8" x 14" with 8 product is $242 my wholesale. Plus freight. Plus fittings. And the cooler, shanks, faucets. It will add up real quick. 12" x 18" with 4 product is $327. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for the info! I should (maybe) have mentioned that we also keep our kegs iced. We had been using two jockey boxes, each with a 4-product plate, and that worked fine, even at the more frantic fests. But those boxes/plates won't be available to us in the future. Are those dimensions and prices maybe reversed? Or is the 8 product really small for what it's supposed to do?
Never been a fan of cold plates...but our volume level of pouring at special events is always full pints and not samples. A 125' minimum coil size is the industry standard.
I think the dimensions are correct. The number of products determines size, but so does the length of the coil inside the plate. The biggest chill plates are massive. Impressive too, if like me you can be impressed by a 10 pound slab of aluminum.
