Mini kegs - waste of money or Pub Shed essential?

Mini kegs - tempting for parties as they hold around 8.5 pints of beer, but are they econom-nom-nom-ical?

The cheapest we have seen is Hobgoblin at £13 on amazon - have you seen cheaper? £15 seems to be around the going rate for hobgoblin and speckled hen but many breweries charge upwards of £20 - £25 for 8.5 pints and if you are purchasing online, there is also the delivery charge to factor in.

So if we do the maths on this:

£25 / 8.5 = £3.13 per pint for more expensive beers

£13 / 8.5 = £1.53 per pint for the hobgoblin (sounds good, but the bottles of hobgoblin are £1.25 in Tesco!)

So in short - not very good value! But, they look good, they can be hooked up relatively easily to a hand pull for that authentic bar experience and they'll last a couple of days once opened (hah, yeah right I hear you say!)

If you homebrew, you'll know that brew a delicious beer that'll come in at anywhere between £0.50 - £0.80p approximately per pint- now that's good value and what's even better is that you can put your homebrew into a mini keg - some even have pressure release valves for your beer to ferment inside!