Free Flow Kegs

Free Flow kegs are a earth-friendly way to enjoy Frey wines! In the past few years, we were introduced to Free Flow Kegs through a wine industry showcase. We were intrigued by the incredibly green footprint of these kegs, and the more we looked into it, the more we appreciated the opportunity to bring our wines to the world in another wonderful way. This technology marks a total game changer for our restaurant and bar placements across the country!

Superior Quality

The superior quality of wine in a keg guarantees that the wine is preserved while individual servings are poured. In our restaurant and bar placements, it is much more efficient to use kegs filled with Frey wine. Lots of different wines may be featured and poured throughout each day, and a keg helps ensure that there is a high quality serving in every pour. With each pour, the rest of the wine in the keg is guaranteed to stay fresh. In a keg versus a bottle, the risk of oxidation is greatly diminished with each pouring.

While most of the people who enjoy Frey wine in their homes will have a glass bottle, the keg opens the world of Frey to new, larger markets. Free flow kegs, like wine bottles, can be distributed to spread organic wine across the country. In places where larger volumes of wine are to be enjoyed, kegs provide a sustainable and high-quality vessel to deliver each pour to you. Whether at a restaurant or a wine bar, Frey wines are preserved to their optimal freshness in every drop.

Zero Waste

Since each pour is a fresh pour and the rest of the wine isn’t oxidized by the pouring, kegs help make the delivery of Frey wine in these commercial settings even greener. The wine stays fresh, the pours are representative of the vintage, and there is no wasted wine in these commercial pouring settings. While a family may enjoy a bottle of Frey over dinner, commercial settings have a greater variability of which vintages are enjoyed which days. With a bottle, the wine should be enjoyed once opened within a relatively short period of time. With kegs, the wine can be poured per serving indefinitely, allowing the shelf life of the wine to be maximized while ensuring that there isn’t wine wasted upon pouring a glass.

Thus, kegs ensure a great pour each time, and no wine is ever wasted. Free Flow kegs are made of stainless steel, and are 100% reusable! There’s no need to throw away or recycle them. They can be perfectly sanitized and then reused for the same purpose over and over again for the long life of the keg. While our wine bottles are made of high-quality glass which can be recycled, Free Flow kegs represent the greenest vessel available for commercial consumption of our wines.

Free of Microplastic

Frey wine is only ever bottled into glass bottles or steel kegs. We don’t use any other materials that may degrade into the wine itself. We are committed to providing you with simply the best wine possible in the best vessels available. With our wine in kegs, there is no chance at all of harmful plastic contaminants due to degradation. Lately people have been concerned about the growing research showing that plastics and microplastics in particular are found in our food, cosmetics, etc. because of their packaging. With stainless steel kegs, the wine is preserved in an ecologically savvy vessel, without the concern of microplastics entering the product or the waste stream.

Reliable

Free Flow kegs are made from durable stainless steel. Unlike plastic kegs which are not made for reuse, the stainless steel kegs can be used over and over again to provide a reliable pour each time. Where the wear and tear on plastic kegs means that the keg may malfunction because of poor craftsmanship and cheap materials, Free Flow kegs are designed with high-quality steel to be reliably used countless times.

The wine is enjoyed with each pour coming fresh from the keg. When the keg is used, they are picked up by the distributor and then replaced with a full keg. While most people reading this blog will still be getting bottles of Frey wine, we feel strongly that moving to a keg based model for larger accounts is part of a greener future.

Efficient

Materials are saved when 1 keg equals 26 bottles of Frey wine!

In commercial applications, the Free Flow stainless steel kegs are an incredibly ecological option for wine pouring. Just one keg is equal to 26 bottles of wine! That means that for each keg, we’re saving 26 bottles from entering the market. Although our glass bottles are recyclable, and glass is one of the materials that is readily recyclable, we appreciate that kegs allow us to not generate any potential waste in the first place.

For those of you that are enjoying the environmental math, that means that each keg saves upwards of 2,340 pounds of waste just by switching to Free Flow kegs!

Environmentally responsible, kegs save an incredible amount of waste

Free Flow Wines

We have decided to work with Free Flow Wines for many reasons. Here are some of the biggest points from the folks at Free Flow Wines. “Free Flow Wines is the ONLY supplier of reusable steel kegs for wine with national reach. Why is this important you ask? Unlike the disposable alternatives, reusable steel kegs guarantee wine quality and zero waste to the landfill. We work collaboratively with all three tiers to ensure the proper pour, every time. We stand behind our mission to make the world a better place by reducing unnecessary waste and carbon emissions.”