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Considering any type of refrigerated room/cold area is a good thing to have when planning any brewpub, regardless of size and/or holding capacity, it depends. On one hand, since you'll need a refrigerated room to store kegs and extra bottle inventory anyway, it might be a bit cheaper to go with the non-insulated tanks. Although serving tanks have a minimal holding load, they'll still be the largest group of items needed to be cooled in that particular space. So it might be wise to price-out both the cost of a cold room for keg/bottle storage only vs. a refrigerated room used solely to store the serving tanks. That being said, the glycol-cooled tanks might be a better investment, considering they'll cost you more initially but you'll end up saving money in the long-run by only chilling when you need to. Basically, what it boils down to is this: as far as the cost(s) go, you won't know until you get quotes for both the glycol-cooled tanks and the cost of installing a larger-sized cold room in your facility.
