Daniel is the founder of DrinkCountr, a drink-tracking app used by home bar hosts across the US, UK, and Australia. He's been building drinks-and-hospitality software since 2024 and talks to home kegerator owners daily through customer support, user research, and community engagement on r/kegerators and r/homebrewing. He started Kegnotes after years of watching customers wrestle with the same set of problems: foamy pours, line cleaning anxiety, CO2 sizing confusion, the chip-in conversation at parties. He doesn't own a kegerator himself; the site draws on aggregated customer insight, conversations with home draught beer enthusiasts including his mate Alex (whose UK home bar is the recurring case study throughout these notes), and editorial cross-referencing against authoritative sources like the Brewers Association's Draught Beer Quality Manual.
What Daniel writes about with authority
- Home draught beer system economics and ROI math
- Drink tracking software design (DrinkCountr founder)
- Customer research patterns across 8 English-speaking markets
- Editorial workflow for AI-assisted publishing
What Daniel does not claim expertise in
Honesty about where the editorial authority ends. For these topics, Kegnotes cites manufacturer docs and the Brewers Association rather than asserting first-person expertise:
- Brewing chemistry beyond what's needed for serving
- Commercial bar / restaurant operations
- Brand-specific kegerator engineering (we cite manufacturer docs)
All notes by Daniel (6)
5 lb vs 10 lb vs 20 lb CO2 tank for a home kegerator: which size to actually buy
5lb for occasional pours, 10lb is the default for most home owners, 20lb only if you're running multiple kegerators. The cost math, refill economics, and decision flow.
DrinkCountr vs Splitwise for home bar parties: an honest comparison
Splitwise wins for general expense splitting. DrinkCountr wins for home bar drink tracking. The differences that matter, by someone who actually built one of them.
Hosting a kegerator party for 15 mates: cost-per-pint math + chip-in script
How much beer 15 people drink, what each pint actually cost you, and the chip-in script that nobody resents. With real numbers from a 4-year kegerator owner.
How often should you clean kegerator beer lines (and what happens if you don't)
Every 2 weeks for daily pours, 3-4 weeks for weekend pours, plus a quarterly acid pass. Full frequency table, the cleaning method that works, and what skipping it costs.
Kegerator beer foamy after a CO2 swap? The 5 causes, in order of likelihood
Foam after swapping CO2 tanks is almost never the new tank's pressure. It's usually one of four other things that happened during the swap. Here's the diagnostic order.
Why is my kegerator beer flat? The 5 causes and the timeline that diagnoses them
Flat beer isn't 'no CO2 in the line', it's not enough CO2 dissolved in the beer. Different problem, different fix. The 5 causes and how the timeline tells you which one.
Contact: editor@kegnotes.com. Editorial process at /methodology/.