It's National Beer Day! We reviewed these beer dispensers but do they pull the perfect pint?

Nothing quite beats the joy of a cold, crisp pint of beer after a hard day at work. And while the ideal place for such a treat is a pub beer garden, it's not always the practical option.

Having a cold beer at home is perfectly possible; we all have a fridge and a source of bottles or cans. But we all know they're not the same as a draught beer pulled behind a bar.

Kitchen appliance specialist Salter and Phillips are among the companies offering a solution to this little problem, though, with a home beer dispenser that promise to deliver cold, fizzy beers straight from a tap in the comfort of your own home.

Gareth Butterfield tries the Salter version and tested it with a range of kegs.

The elaborately-named EK4919 Beer Dispenser weighs in at £179.99 on the Salter website - comfortably under cutting many of its rivals and boasts all the features of a typical home-bar setup. And, I've found if you shop around, you might find it for £150. Cheers to that!

It contains a chamber in which you sit a ubiquitous five-litre keg and an array of connectors and cleaning items, along with a handful of mini gas bottles and a handy drip tray.

Plugged into the mains, and filled with water, it will cool the keg and keep it cool for as long as it takes you to empty the barrel, and you can give it a head start by putting the keg in the fridge for a few hours or so.

I tested it with a range of kegs, including a Heineken, a foreign beer I've forgotten the name of and one of my favourite tipples, Adnams Ghost Ship.

The kegs vary in price a bit, starting at around £20 if you shop around a bit, but quickly heading north of £30 if you prefer a more premium beer, or a craft beer.

And each keg is good for around nine pints, so it's great value for