The two home draught systems sold in the UK, PerfectDraft and Blade, with the machines and the kegs that go in them, from the supermarkets, breweries and bottle shops we check. Prices are from our last check of each shop's website.
Machines and keg refills are listed apart. A bundle counts as a machine when the shop's own page says it includes one; a bundle of kegs alone is listed with the refills. Each keg table puts the cheapest delivered first, one keg to a UK mainland address at the shop's own published rate, and shows the price per litre and per pint, delivery included, where the listing states the keg's size.
Nothing is listed or moved up because a shop paid. Give the shop's own page a quick look before you buy: a machine bundle's contents and a keg's return scheme are on the shop's page, not here.
PerfectDraft is the Philips and AB InBev system: a countertop machine that chills a 6 litre steel keg and keeps it fresh for about a month once tapped. Kegs come from Stella Artois, Camden, Leffe, Corona, Budweiser and others, and the maker runs an empty keg return scheme, so check what a seller offers for the empty.
PerfectDraft machines come in two models, whatever name a shop gives them. The original is the Philips machine: sold as the PerfectDraft Machine, as the PerfectDraft Black (the same machine in a matte black finish) and, at some shops, as the Philips PerfectDraft 7000 Series. It chills a keg to a fixed 3°C, shows with lights when the beer is cold and the keg is running low, and the maker says a fresh keg takes about twelve hours to cool.
The PerfectDraft Pro, also sold as the Pro Black, is the newer and larger machine. The maker's page lists variable temperature control from 0 to 12°C, app control with rapid and scheduled cooling, a smoother pour and steadier temperatures on warm days. Both models take the same 6 litre PerfectDraft kegs. The model chips above the machines go by the listing's own title: a title that says Pro is filed as the Pro, everything else as the original.
Blade is Heineken's countertop dispenser for 8 litre pressurised kegs of Heineken, Birra Moretti, Amstel, Tiger and others. It was made for bars and is sold for home use too; the keg does not need gas and the maker says it keeps for about a month once tapped.
A listing is here when its own title names one of the two systems. Bar blades (bottle openers), tap handles, machine skins and glasses are left out, and so is the Pinter, which is a home brewing kit rather than a keg dispenser. Supermarket prices are the shelf prices from the supermarket comparison; shop prices come from the catalogue of every brewery and bottle shop we check. Where a shop sells a bundle, its own page says what is in the box, and that is what decides whether it sits with the machines or the refills.
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PerfectDraft is the Philips and AB InBev system and takes 6 litre steel kegs. Blade is Heineken's and takes 8 litre pressurised plastic kegs. The kegs are not interchangeable: a PerfectDraft keg only fits a PerfectDraft machine and a Blade keg only fits a Blade.
Yes. There are two PerfectDraft models. The original Philips machine is sold as the PerfectDraft Machine, the PerfectDraft Black and the Philips PerfectDraft 7000 Series, all the same machine at a fixed 3°C. The PerfectDraft Pro, also sold as the Pro Black, is the newer and larger model with variable temperature, app control and faster cooling. Both take the same 6 litre kegs, and the model chips above the machines tell them apart by the listing's own title.
A 6 litre PerfectDraft keg holds about ten and a half pints and an 8 litre Blade keg about fourteen, at 568 ml to the pint. The per pint figure on this page is the delivered price over those pints, or the shelf price where the shop publishes no delivery rate.
A listing is here when its own title names PerfectDraft or Blade. Machines and bundles the shop says include a machine are listed under Machines; kegs and bundles of kegs under Keg refills. Bar blades, tap handles, skins and glasses are left out, and so is the Pinter, which is a home brewing kit.
We check each shop's website about twice a day and the supermarkets about once a day, and the tables are sorted from our last check. Prices and stock can change between checks, so give the shop's own page a quick look before you buy.
No. Everything is bought on the shop's or supermarket's own website. Some links to shops may earn UK Beer Deals a commission; it never changes the price you pay, and never changes what gets listed or where it sits in a table.