chainsawbrewing
Well-Known Member
just curious if anyone else has ever tried this, and if my thinking is flawed or not.
i have the magic chef 7.2 freezer, i installed a 2x8 collar on it so it will hold 6 kegs.
what i'm doing here, (bare with me, i have trouble explaining things sometimes) is i'm building a bar in my basement. rather than installing the freezer underneath the bar, the side of the bar is going to be butted right up against a wall, that the opposite side of the drywall is a small closet that is the bottom side of my staircase. i have already fit the freezer in this closet, and the lid opens, so all is good there. i plan on running my beer lines outside of the freezers back side (the side against the wall in the closet) and then fabricating some sort of wall mount on the opposite side of this wall (bar side) that will house six taps, so that you can simply walk up to the wall beside where the bar will be built, and pull a pint from the wall.
here's my question/issue.
what i have planned on doing is cutting a hole in the backside of the collar, and putting a piece of 3" threaded pvc into that hole, with a pvc nut on the outside, and inside of the collar. then running a 90 degree pvc elbow on the outside end of that, and roughly a 2 or 3ft piece of straight pvc up along the wall, and running all my beer lines through that pvc, and out of it, and then into the backside of the shanks, and wrapping the pvc in insulation, and specifically the outlet of the hoses, completely "sealing" the pvc on the outlet, and on the inlet from the collar with the pvc nuts on both sides.
my theory is the cold air from inside the keezer would have nowhere to go, other than inside of that pvc pipe, since it's completely sealed off on both ends.
am i thinking correctly? has anyone ever done this before? or will i have a first pull of warm, foamy beer everytime?
thanks.
brian
i have the magic chef 7.2 freezer, i installed a 2x8 collar on it so it will hold 6 kegs.
what i'm doing here, (bare with me, i have trouble explaining things sometimes) is i'm building a bar in my basement. rather than installing the freezer underneath the bar, the side of the bar is going to be butted right up against a wall, that the opposite side of the drywall is a small closet that is the bottom side of my staircase. i have already fit the freezer in this closet, and the lid opens, so all is good there. i plan on running my beer lines outside of the freezers back side (the side against the wall in the closet) and then fabricating some sort of wall mount on the opposite side of this wall (bar side) that will house six taps, so that you can simply walk up to the wall beside where the bar will be built, and pull a pint from the wall.
here's my question/issue.
what i have planned on doing is cutting a hole in the backside of the collar, and putting a piece of 3" threaded pvc into that hole, with a pvc nut on the outside, and inside of the collar. then running a 90 degree pvc elbow on the outside end of that, and roughly a 2 or 3ft piece of straight pvc up along the wall, and running all my beer lines through that pvc, and out of it, and then into the backside of the shanks, and wrapping the pvc in insulation, and specifically the outlet of the hoses, completely "sealing" the pvc on the outlet, and on the inlet from the collar with the pvc nuts on both sides.
my theory is the cold air from inside the keezer would have nowhere to go, other than inside of that pvc pipe, since it's completely sealed off on both ends.
am i thinking correctly? has anyone ever done this before? or will i have a first pull of warm, foamy beer everytime?
thanks.
brian