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Small update. I can easily fit 3 cornies and a #10 bottle of Co2 in there. And I still have all the room on the hump for bottles.

Here is the expensive way to do it. http://www.nagios.org/products/environmental/esensors/em01b.php Could always setup a webcam and point it at a thermometer.

Dang... I think I need to try to squeeze the kegs in again.

Yeah I was worried that there would be to much stress on the wood from the hinges. They probably were not needed but I would rather overbuild it. Also not shown is an extra 1 inch strip around the upper lip to help the lid seal better.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know... Actually I could fit another keg on the hump, but its not wide enough to squeeze two on the hump.

Next time I will just spray paint it: L brackets were overkill, the collar is silicone/glued on very well Pretty much done, just need to run the lines:

Yup, another keezer thread.... I got a 10% off coupon from homedepotmoving.com and decided to grab the $199 7.2cu freezer that they had. Its not the best freezer for this task but it will do what I need. If it was a tad wider you could fit 4 cornies in it, but I can only mange to get two in...

Dont give up. Seems like your doing everything right so you might want to take your self out of the equation. Get a few of these and wear them during your next brew.

What about if I am planning on kegging/carbing the cider?

I know my cider is still young, but at what point do you use campden? The guy at the local home brew place said to toss it in about 24/48 hours prior to bottling. Is that right?

I finally got all of my parts together last night and got the top seal in my keg to stop leaking. I just transfered my light wheat ale to the keg and attached the co2 bottle up. I set it at 8psi and stuck it in my garage which is about 50-60 degrees right now. Should be in the 40's next week...

Is there any advantage of getting one style keg over the other? Or is it as simple as there are more ball lock kegs available?

That makes me feel a lot better. Thanks.

Keep us posted. That one is in the top 5 of my todo list.

I am very new to this and I am looking for some help. On 10/01/07 I began a raspberry cider. I used 100% apple juice, 30 ounces of raspberries (non frozen) and 2 table spoons of sugar for sport. I use the mead slap pack yeast that a local homebrew supplier recomended (I cant remember the...