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New Revolutionary Draught Beer Cooling System Launched
We’re delighted to announce that REL, together with their manufacturing partner LANCER, one of the world’s leaders in beer and mineral dispense, have launched the LANCER GLYCOL SYSTEM in the Irish marketplace.
For the last two years, we have been active, together with all Breweries, LVA, VFI and leading publicans, in installing and tweaking the LANCER system to suit the Irish marketplace.
Following its initial breakthrough design in Australia over 15 years ago, Lancer has installed over 7,000 systems worldwide recently changing all 700 weather spoons outlets in the UK and Northern Ireland. Other prestigious projects include Wembley Stadium.
The Lancer system is a direct replacement or addition to the Traditional Irish Ice Bank method of cooling. In this case, instead of having multiple external and internal compressors, Lancer uses a central bath of glycol (Antifreeze) to cool all refrigeration within the bar. Using the same principle as a household heating system, the Lancer bath simply chills the mixed bath of glycol and water to – 4c and then pumps the liquid to your taps, beer cold room, remote bottle coolers and even your food cold rooms.
The simplicity of this design is backed by a number of patented innovations which allow the Lancer systems deliver up to 50 % savings on your existing systems electricity bills. No matter what size or style of pub you own, the Lancer systems can remove your existing Beer cold room compressor, Ice bank compressor and all under counter coolers and replace them with one external unit. This new optimised system will not only guarantee to reduce your electricity bills but for the first time ever will allow any beer to be served at 0 o C without the need for large, noisy & hot under counter coolers. The unique Lancer tank uses a brazed Heat exchanger within the bath to allow for a highly efficient heat transfer within a small space while the patented aluminium block heat exchangers allow for close temp control on every tap.
REL have already installed nine systems over the last seven months all over Ireland. From Large bars like the newly revamped Foundry Night club in Waterford City to the Palace Bar/ Nightclub in Dublin and smaller traditional bars such as Langton’s, Birdies bar in Kilkenny and The Thomas Moore Tavern in Wexford town. At the moment there is a new system currently being installed in Fowlers of Malahide.
The First Irish bar installation was Manzors Bar, Clane, Co Kildare and it was this site which gave us and the breweries our first real insight into the capabilities of the Lancer system. We independently monitored each existing compressor for a period prior to the Lancer installation and then monitored the Lancer system post installation. The results were astounding and surpassed both REL and the owners expectation
Owner, Seamus Manzor:
“I can say with hand on heart that after 40 years in the trade, this is the best system I have seen. Our pub has been through many systems over the years, from under counter coolers, to the CROSSFLOW water system and the traditional ice bank / cold room with additions like the Classic etc.. But I was astounded at the quality of product produced by the LANCER system. Along with the energy savings, the fact that we have now our bottle coolers and cold room running from this system, I can recommend this system to anyone”
C and C (Bulmer’s) have agreed to INCREASE the previous beer cooling grant while the other Breweries complete their review of current systems
Richie Byrne (Group Quality Manager) -
“We at Bulmers / C&C have monitored this system closely since first introduced to us by REL. I can say that this is a great stride forward in beer cooling dispense giving great versatility for both publican and brewer alike. The electrical, waste and maintenance savings for the publican are an added bonus”
LANCER offer twelve different bath sizes and eight different plate sizes to allow for a properly bespoke designed system specific to your bar, the better the quality of the design the lower the running costs.
REL / Lancer can replace entire systems, it can be added to existing systems or even just deliver ice taps & temperatures to one bank of taps. Prices start form as little as €2,800 for a 1.5kw unit with yearly electrical savings of anything between € 500 and € 10,000 depending on the system size and the number of compressors we remove.
An added advantage of this system is better health and safety in the workplace. By installing this system you will remove all under counter coolers, therefore reducing heat and dust behind the counter area. This will result in a cleaner and safer working environment for your staff.
So if you’re interested in reducing your costs, removing noise & heat from your bar and catering for the new lower temperatures demanded by your customers please contact REL.
