Cedar Keezer - Hoppopotomus Clone

Really liked Hoppopotomus thread on his cedar keezer build so most of the work was based on his thread which was extremely helpful. Immitation is the best form of flattery right? lol.
We have a lot of cedar inside and outside so this truly was a perfect fit.

We still are not done yet, but here is our build so far on our 8.8 cu ft Kenmore chest freezer:

About the only place we have room for it and much better spot for a keezer than bookshelf and curio cabinet right?


Heres the freezer and yep it fits 4 kegs easily thanks to the cardboard cutouts.


Framing and putting on casters


Finished stain and poly along with cedar planks and cedar logs and putting on plywood (told u it was very similar to Hoppo's lol)


Building the coffin and inserting fans and pvc tube for beer lines

Keep up the good work!

I'm happy to have helped you out.....great work so far!

Any questions.....just let me know. Keep up the great work. I'm very curious to see how you trim the top out, tile selections, etc.

I really like your table tops, they really really really look nice.

Holes cut for the taps, some insulation cut, and the cement board on the coffin:



After staining the trim boards and sides of the coffin:



We have a unique "tile" that we will be working on shortly. More to come...

What's the status?.......can't wait to see your "unique tile"! Any progress thus far?

cement board down:


drum roll....our "unique tile" and love controller installed:


stone mortared and hopefully grouting today:


wiring completed for love controller:


We have taken a lot more photos than what we've posted in this thread. If you are interested in seeing all the photos we've taken thus far, here's the entire album on photobucket: linky.


We purchased a couple storm door closers that we're hoping to attach to the freezer, or frame somehow: linky. Do you think this will help support the keezer when we open it? Also, not really sure how to attach. Are there coils inside the freezer towards the top, near the lid? Could we attach to the freezer, or do you think we should attach somehow to the frame? Any advice?

Wow, the little rocks look amazing with the wood. This is a beautiful build.

wow, that looks amazing. Love the way the rocks look with the wood.

The stone looks fantastic! Your almost there.....keep up the great work! So, what are you doing for the final horizontal trim? I'm getting ready to make a few modifications to mine......I need to get the CO2 outside of the keezer. I have been have a small issue with pressure creeping with my regulators, which the good folks a kegconnection.com said was due to moisture forming in the regulators with them being housed inside of the keezer. I had a patient who was gracious enough to give me a 20 lb. CO2 cylinder, so I'm going to house it, along with the regulators, in my pantry adjacent to the keezer and just run long gas lines through the adjacent wall, behind the fridge and somehow up to the coffin and down into the keezer. It will be great to have readily accessible regulators on a big a$$ CO2 cylinder without having to pull this tank out to open it everytime I want to make an adjustment. I am also considering a linear actuator (Jester369's idea....not mine) to open the top which is ridiculously heavy. Keep up the good work and I'm glad my build has helped you out!

probably the coolest keezer build I've seen yet!

Hopefully door closers are the answer to help with lifting the top/coffin. Linky.Worried the hinges may not hold up for the the long run.

Thanks for all the comments More progress this weekend!

Stones are now grouted:


here's the coffin with everything laid out how we'll eventually have it:

Finally finished (waiting on the last 2 tap handles, but that's it!):




"Toppe Tap" beer mugs my wife made for my Birthday:

Very nice! I'll post a pic. of the "original" on your thread tonight or tomorrow. Congrats!

P.S. I love the look of the "worm tracks" on the logs. I contemplated keeping them on the logs I used, but my wife didn't care for them, so I knifed down the sap wood until they were gone. The worm tracks give the logs more character IMO. Looks great!

Hey Ischcor.....Here are the pics or the "original" in it's final resting spot. Just need to get the finish on the cedar log bar stools and build a cedar log framed chalk board for above the keezer to display the tap line-up. I am also still trying to talk my wife into letting me cover the fridge to the left with the same thin knotty pine paneling that I used for the keezer build, but she is really against it for whatever reason. Here are the pics.

Oh yeah....I still need to get a longer drip tray as well, because it was originally a 3 tap system that I converted to 4 taps a few months ago.

That looks awesome! I was thinking the white fridge does look a little out of place with the rest of the theme there, but wasn't going to nitpick because everything else looks great!
I got my drip tray at barproducts.com and was happy with it. Seemed a lot cheaper than other drip trays and looks great. Kind of a hard site to navigate but good product, so I'm happy with it.

Yeah, I was on their site as well and it's a b*tch to navigate. I was looking at their 19" x 4" stainless tray. It was much cheaper than on other sites, just haven't gotten around to ordering it yet. Maybe this weekend. Again, nice job on the keezer and enjoy!

Talk about a MAN CAVE ! Hats off to ya!