Sector guide · Craven Cooling
Pub & bar equipment.
Cold beer isn’t a feature. It’s the product.
Back-bar coolers, bottle fridges, ice, glasswashing and the cellar that holds the lot. That’s a walk-in beer cave we built in the photo — real job, real cold. Walk your bar with us, zone by zone, live prices included.
0Bar & bottle cooler lines in stock
0Ice machine lines
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At a glance
Built for busy pubs & bars.
Back bar29 back-bar cooler lines
Bottle & can stock313 cooler & merchandiser lines
Ice machine191 ice machine lines
Glasswasher127 glasswasher lines
Cellar & beer caveWalk-in cold rooms
No. 01 — The brief
The coldest yard in hospitality
Nobody forgives a warm pint. The back bar, the bottle fridge, the ice well and the cellar are one system with one job: serving temperature, every serve, all night.
Bar refrigeration fails at the worst possible moment by design — it’s under the most load exactly when the room is fullest. So we spec it for the rush, not the Tuesday afternoon: back-bar coolers that recover fast with the doors going constantly, ice machines sized to the busiest week of the year, glasswashers that keep pace with the session. And behind it all, cellar cooling or a walk-in that holds the stock at the right temperature before it ever reaches the bar. Live prices below.
No. 02 — The buying guide
Walk the bar
Five zones make a bar. Here’s each one, what it does on a Friday night, and where we’d start — live prices, all + VAT.
A typical layout, drawn the way we survey one. Tap a zone number to jump to its kit — no two shops are the same, so plan yours in 3D.
The back bar
29 back-bar cooler linesTwo steps behind the taps, doors going all night. Glass-door back-bar coolers put the bottled range in the customer’s eyeline and the bartender’s reach.
All back-bar fridges
The dealer’s pickINFRICO Upright Single Hinged Glass Door Bottle Cooler ZXS10
Size W×D×H600 × 520 × 1800 mmCapacity324 LTemp range+4 to +12 °CPower380 W
Bottle & can stock
313 cooler & merchandiser linesThe wider drinks estate — upright merchandisers and bottle coolers that keep the restock two metres away instead of two flights down.
All coolers & merchandisers
The dealer’s pickIMC Mistral M60 Bottle Cooler 119Ltr F77/151 FP721
Size W×D×H850 × 600 × 500 mmCapacity133 LTemp range+2 to +6 °CEnergyClass C · 1.62 kWh/day
The ice machine
191 ice machine linesIce is stock, not garnish — cocktails, spirits, soft drinks all draw on it. An undersized machine runs out exactly when the night gets good.
All ice machines
The dealer’s pickDC DCQ100-60A Self-contained
Size W×D×H735 × 603 × 1117 mm
The glasswasher
127 glasswasher linesA session is only as fast as the clean glass supply. An undercounter glasswasher turns a rack around in minutes, all night long.
All glasswashers
The dealer’s pickDC SXD45A IS Standard Extra Dishwashers – frontloading 450×450
The cellar & beer cave
Walk-in cold roomsFrom classic cellar cooling to a full walk-in beer cave like the ones we’ve built in Bridgend and Cardiff — stock at serving temperature, in bulk.
All walk-in fridges
The dealer’s pickPolar U-Series 1.2 x 1.5m Integral Walk In Cold Room Brown DS480-CBN
Size W×D×H2200 × 1200 × 1500 mmCapacity2843 LTemp range+2 to +5 °CPower1800 W
In our catalogue right now
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bar & bottle cooler lines — in stock and priced
Back-bar, upright, single door to four door, from £518 + VAT for a proper back-bar cooler. Every line links to a live price on our site, today.
No. 03 — The dealer’s column
The dealer’s verdict
What we’d tell you across the counter, before a penny changes hands.
Spec for the rush
Bar kit lives or dies on recovery — how fast it pulls back to temperature with the doors going constantly. We spec for your busiest hour, because that’s the hour that pays the rent.
We build beer caves
Walk-in drinks caves are a signature of ours — Bridgend, Cardiff, Kenfig Hill. A destination fixture that turns stock storage into the best-looking thing in the building.
One call, whole bar
Back-bar, ice, glasswasher, cellar — supplied, installed and commissioned together, with a 2-year parts warranty and our own service engineers on the end of the phone.
Where we’d slow you down
Don’t buy the ice machine for an average night — size it to your busiest week, because ice runs out at midnight, not midday; our sizing calculator does the maths. Mind the ventilation in a tight back bar: coolers crammed against a wall with no airflow work harder and die younger. And sort the glasswasher before the fancy fridge — warm glass ruins cold beer.
No. 04 — The range
One van. The whole bar.
Glasses to glasswashers, optics to furniture. 34,000+ products in the catalogue today — and climbing toward 50,000. The cold is where we start, not where we stop. All live-priced, all one supplier.
2,077 pieces of glasswarePint, gin, martini, flute — 2,000+ glasses to serve it properly.
401 bar accessoriesSpeed rails, muddlers, optics — the working end of the bar.
3,307 furniture & fabrication linesTables, seating and stainless fabrication for front and back of house.
1,887 cleaning & warewashing linesChemicals, sinks and machines behind every clean glass.
No. 05 — On location
Real shops. Real installs.
Real bars, real beer caves — built by our engineers and photographed on handover.
Bridgend · Conversion
The hub with a beer cave
A full conversion with a walk-in drinks cave at its heart — designed, built and commissioned by our engineers.
Cardiff · Full refit
Bare shell to beer cave
Thirteen cabinets and a walk-in beer cave on one of Cardiff’s busiest streets — every delivery choreographed to the minute.
Nobody remembers the fridge. Everybody remembers the warm pint.The Craven Cooling install team · Swansea
No. 06 — Running costs
What it costs to run
Bar kit runs hardest exactly when the room is fullest — and the meter runs all night with it.