My Fridge Multitasks!

So when I got this thing, almost new, on the cheap, a few months back, this is exactly what I had in mind: a multi-purpose cooling chamber. Well this is the first time I've used it for lager fermentation, and it's working out well. I can't get an airlock on there with the clearance, but hooking up some vinyl tubing to the carboy cap works just as well.

So here you are...

4 kegs plus co2 tank? Check.
8 lbs+ of hops? Check.
Yeast bank? Check.
Bottled brews? Check.
Lagering carboy? Check.



If I wanted to, I could probably take out the rest of those small bottles and fit another carboy in there. And yeah, there's only 3 kegs, but that's because the other one's empty. It definitely fits 4. What a deal!

Me, jealous of you: Check.

That's a sweet setup -- very nice!

now you just need the taps through the door!

Thats about as good as it gets!

nathan said:

now you just need the taps through the door!

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Nah, not doing that. I already have a Sanyo 4912 with a 2-tap tower out in the living room. At the worst, I'll get a manifold (right now my gas line just tees) and maybe add another regulator dial so I can force-carb and serve at the same time. But there's no need to drill this thing.

Sweet Setup! Did you take the door off the secret room?

That looks like an ideal fridge for lagering and general cold storage use. A heck of a lot more convenient than the dorm-fridge fermentation chamber i'm thinking of building. Maybe i'll just keep checking craigslist...

That is the shizzle.

RICLARK said:

Sweet Setup! Did you take the door off the secret room?

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Say what? Secret door?

Evan! said:

Say what? Secret door?

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I thought there was a door on that little room under the stairs in the last pic you posted.

I would be putting those hops in a freezer..... Other then that, what you have going looks great. :rockin:

FSR402 said:

I would be putting those hops in a freezer..... Other then that, what you have going looks great. :rockin:

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If I had a freezer that would fit all those hops, then I would. But as is, my chest freezer is chock full of the proceeds from the 3 deer I shot over the holidays. So fridge temps will have to do. Most of 'em are foodsaved anyway, so it's not a huge deal.

Glad to see I'm not the only one with picnic taps

I have one with Freezer on top. I have some wine in the way bottom, the fridge door is filled with specialty bottles. The inside houses my Kegs, and a lager in a BB and currently the CO2, which I plan on moving outside. The top holds my liquor and specialty malts.

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I thought there was a door on that little room under the stairs in the last pic you posted.

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Oh, no, the door's still there, it's just open in that pic. And it's not really a "room under the stairs". From where I took the pic, if you turn around, it's the mudroom, with a utility sink and a door to the back patio...and there's also a door behind me to the left that leads to the rest of the unfinished basement, including the laundry room/brewhouse. You know, this one:

Evan! said:

If I had a freezer that would fit all those hops, then I would. But as is, my chest freezer is chock full of the proceeds from the 3 deer I shot over the holidays. .

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All those hops and the deer? Now I don't like you.....
I have not got a deer in like 8 years.

FSR402 said:

All those hops and the deer? Now I don't like you.....
I have not got a deer in like 8 years.

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Really? Deezamn. You should come to where I hunt. There's this tree stand on the edge of this corn field. Around 4:15pm, the mufuggers start appearing out of the treeline like clockwork. I shot those three in a span of 15 minutes. I'm really out there for the meat, honestly, not to take the price buck...so if I see a good sized doe, I take it.

Have you had any problems keeping your hops at fridge-temp instead of freezer temp? Is it OK to store hops at 40F? I thought it'd cause accelerated degradation.

My freezer on my kegerator doesn't work (No Ranco, stock thermostat... just old and broken) and so I still have my hops in my main food freezer. But it takes 1/3 of the space in there, and SWMBO doesn't like that!

Edit: LOL. Whoops. Netscape glitched while scrolling, I didn't see FSR ask the same question. Srry.

Evan! said:

Really? Deezamn. You should come to where I hunt. There's this tree stand on the edge of this corn field. Around 4:15pm, the mufuggers start appearing out of the treeline like clockwork. I shot those three in a span of 15 minutes. I'm really out there for the meat, honestly, not to take the price buck...so if I see a good sized doe, I take it.

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I'm out there for the meat also but we can't shot does where I'm at and I have not seen any bucks. They are there, other people are getting them, I just don't see them.

FSR402 said:

I'm out there for the meat also but we can't shot does where I'm at and I have not seen any bucks. They are there, other people are getting them, I just don't see them.

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You can't shoot doe's? Really? Wow. Our yearly tag sheet is mostly antlerless, with maybe 2 "either sex", so they're clearly encouraging doe hunting. The farm where I got these was actually explicit in their request that we leave smaller bucks and go for either females or mature males. I accidentally took a smaller buck because it looked like a good sized doe from the stand, but what can you do?

So, any idea why they prohibit doe hunting where you are?

Evan! said:

So, any idea why they prohibit doe hunting where you are?

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They go by population, there are a few zones up here where they wont sell antlerless tags.

RICLARK said:

They go by population, there are a few zones up here where they wont sell antlerless tags.

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On the flip side, a few hours north of GR they about give antlerless tags away when you get your license.

mmb said:

On the flip side, a few hours north of GR they about give antlerless tags away when you get your license.

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Ya luckily I dont have a problem where Im at getting antlerless tags, Think I had three last year.