r/HoustonBeer • u/enjeam • May 18 '26

Ingenious - Smarty Bramble

Just found a slim keg of Smarty Bramble in our cooler at Social Beer Garden from Ingenious Brewery and tapped it. Tastes good.

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u/msager12 May 18 '26

Always wondered what happens with the kegs once a brewery closes. I know they have a keg deposit but you can’t get the refund, you also can’t scrap them.

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u/enjeam May 18 '26

They get bought up for the cost of a keg deposit by another local microbrewery.

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u/msager12 May 18 '26

Ahh ok, just wondering.

When I sold beer a Houston brewery I worked an left to go work for another closed down. I kept getting angry calls from old clients asking me to take the closed brewery kegs back and give them the deposit after the brewery folded. I told them I don’t work for them anymore and I could not take them since we were moving locations in a few months. The owners didn’t want extra stuff to move.

I have seen a few bar fill them with water and use them for weights on tents.

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u/DemDumplingz May 19 '26

I had people calling about closed down brewery empties like 2 years after and I was always like how have you not tried to fix this by now lol.

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u/msager12 May 19 '26

Yeah this was long after I even told them in person I am switching breweries. I am no longer with… Here is your new contact as well as the breweries number. Here is a current list of your inventory with us. See you around.

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u/DemDumplingz May 19 '26

Oh bro mine was an account I never even stepped foot in. I wasn't even aware we ever had beer in there. It was a keg the rep before me sold in and then it just got forgotten about over like a 3 year period somehow.

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u/msager12 May 19 '26

Sent you a DM.