Post your kegerator/bar

[LiverDance]

Rachet, where did you get your fridge?

[ratchet]

Rachet, where did you get your fridge?

got it at futureshop.

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/ ... da8681en02

Bought it last year, when they were on sale.

[Garak]

Ratchet:
Nice job on the door, looks very clean, as if it came from the factory like that.

[Jayme]

Here's mine - I bought it already made but there are a few minor improvements I intend to make when time permits.


Here's the tap I will be hooking up when time/money/space permit. It's from the old Bubble's Mansion

[mr x]

Cool on the taps! How'd you score that?

[ratchet]

very nice

[Jayme]

Cool on the taps! How'd you score that?

I bought the put together Kegerator on Kijiji a few months back. A friend of mine knows the owner of what was Bubble's and she got him to sell it to me pretty cheap. However, it's not in as great shape as it looks. I've got it ripped apart into pieces now to clean it all up but may be more work than I bargained for. The taps are in pretty decent shape but the tube column the hoses pass through is needing some TLC. I'll pick away at it, shining up each piece at a time until it all fits away nice and clean in a few boxes until I can find/make space for some sort of under-counter commercial fridge system. Glad I picked it up while I could though! Makes a good project and some day I'm going to have a pretty kick ass draft setup!

[derek]

As some of you know, my home is off-grid. We've only in the past year been able to supply enough power for one electric fridge (we had a propane fridge before that), so we certainly don't have electricity for a kegerator. So from an inspiration by Chalmers - the Off-grid Kegerator: a "wheelie bin", with room to hold two Corny kegs and 5lb CO2 tank, and a Perlick tap on the front.

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I just need a handle for the tap, now.

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Just add ice

[mr x]

Nice.

[chalmers]

Nice. Did you reinforce the bin to keep the shank/faucet from moving around too much? What's the plan to keep it cold: swamp cooler, ice, etc?

[Jmac00]

any problems with putting a handle on that? with the ridge on the garbage bin, it looks like it might hit.

[derek]

The shank is supported by a piece of 1x3 on the inside of the bin. I'll use ice when I need to, but I'm English, I'm used to warmish beer [Never mind that I left England when I was 11...]

I think a tap is going to fit, but my shank is long enough to extend the tap forward if necessary.

[mr x]

And if need be, you can buy adapters that angle the tap handle forward for clearance.

[moxie]

I finally put together the pieces to add a second faucet to my 2 keg set-up. I currently have a single tap chrome tower, but the second tap is going to be drilled through the side wall and attached with a normal shank. It will be strange, but I thought I would give it a go. I am thinking the best spot for it is here:



I have my CO2 inside on the step between the two kegs, it's a tight fit, but as far as I can tell, this is the best option for running the extra lines and whatnot.

[Jmac00]

can't drill into the tower and add another faucet? then just turn the tower a bit so both faucets can use the same drip tray....and look 'even'.

if you do decide to go the route you're going, careful not to hit a line....i think they run through the sides on them.

[moxie]

can't drill into the tower and add another faucet? then just turn the tower a bit so both faucets can use the same drip tray....and look 'even'.

if you do decide to go the route you're going, careful not to hit a line....i think they run through the sides on them.

Reeeeeally... I did not think of that. Any way to find out of there is a line running through the side without ripping it open? The only way I know of is the cornstarch trick, but I don't see how that would work on the side.

I thought about drilling the tower, but I didn't want to risk destroying it.

[Jmac00]

i only know of the cornstarch way as well.

thing is with the towers, the small shanks that are used are fairly expensive from what i remember. I've seen some decent towers built using PVC pipe...then painted chrome and you can barely tell the difference...but again, you'd have to buy the shanks. Ideally, if you could find a dual tower for decent price and trade/sell your single and just swap, i think that would be your best bet. The way you have your tower, and your suggested place of the second faucet....IMO i think it would look 'out of place'. It'd be more tidy all on one tower...or both taps through the door (then no risk of hitting a line).

[moxie]

You've convinced me... I am going to add the second faucet to my tower... I just have to find someone with a drill press!

[Jmac00]

find one of those small shanks that are needed too...that'll probably be the hardest part to find...maybe from someone that's got an old tower lyin around or salvaged from a bar? A normal drill could be used worse case scenario....just hit it with a punch first so the bit don't slip

shank like this?
http://www.homebrewing.org/Chrome-Plate ... _1187.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[moxie]

find one of those small shanks that are needed too...that'll probably be the hardest part to find...maybe from someone that's got an old tower lyin around or salvaged from a bar? A normal drill could be used worse case scenario....just hit it with a punch first so the bit don't slip

shank like this?
http://www.homebrewing.org/Chrome-Plate ... _1187.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Already ordered one from Kegconnection.

A normal drill will probably be fine. My tower is pretty immaculate at the moment, so I'd be a bit worried about chipping the chrome a bit or getting the damn hole in the right spot.

[Jmac00]

wicked!! post pics when she's all done

[Garak]

John and I just built a temporary tower for his dead keezer he got off kijiji. We got it full of ice at the moment to keep the beer cold. The tower is built from pink styrofoam and leftover peel-n-stick floor tiles.

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[mr x]

Got that gear in use already...

[Garak]

Oh yea, the perlick taps pour so nice. Its night and day going from picnic taps.

John dug up some of this peel-n-stick shower trim and put that around the top and bottom to give it a more finished look. Damn thing looks a little too good for something we are going to replace soon.

The next version is going to be the full width of the freezer and have glass storage below 4 taps. The beer lines will come up one side of an arch and the other side will have a computer fan to circulate cold air up through. John wants to cover the full thing in ceramic tile, that sounds like a lot of work to me. We are also going to box in the freezer with bead board or something to dress it up and make it blend in with the kitchen cabinets. We are going leave a 1" gap all round the freezer and push air through with computer fans.

The next version will also include a working compressor. Keeping ice in this thing is a PITA.

[chalmers]

Looking great, sucks about the dead freezer. If you are looking to get rid of it, get NS Power to do all the heavy lifting, plus get $35 for it!!http://www.efficiencyns.ca/for_homes/en ... t_program/