I've had difficulty finding a way to store my homebrew equipment so I don't have to haul it up from the basement every time--just hauling stuff adds probably 20 minutes to the brew day.
I wanted a way to store it all in the garage but in an enclosed space; I don't want creepy-crawlies in my stuff, I don't want flies depositing fly specs on my stuff (such as a spoon or mash paddle hanging on a hook). Further, I was limited in where I could store stuff, so just building cabinets was pretty much out.
I stumbled across this item at Sam's Club and was stunned at what it cost (or didn't, as the case may be). It's a 6-foot tall by 3-foot wide by 18-inches deep stainless rolling cabinet; it has a key lock on it, the wheels are very sizeable so it rolls easy. Here's the shocker: $209. I'd been looking at enclosed garage cabinetry at Menards and similar things cost much more and weren't as usable (typically being too shallow in depth, like 12" or 15").
This one is large enough to hold my 8-gallon brew kettle, my King Kooker burner, another kettle, my immersion cooler, a large toolbox, smaller containers, a 1-gallon pitcher, my spoon, paddle, and strainer, and even my Mark II corny keg washer (it fits on the top shelf, not shown because I'm using it.
). The shelves are adjustable, and held in place by heavy-duty brackets.
I have a small space I can roll this into, out of the way, sealed up nicely, and all I need to do is roll this baby out and everything is right there. It doesn't hold the fermenters but I keep them in the basement, and that's OK.
You have to assemble the cabinet--took me a couple of hours--but the quality is really very high for the price. What makes this so much better than the other options I had is the 18-inch depth. I still have lots of room for other stuff if I need to include it such as kegging hardware and such, and could even store stuff in the kettles.
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