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Howdy kids!
So it's tax time again, and one of the benefits (if you could call it that) of an enormous mortgage is that we actually get some cash back from Uncie Sam. And being the practical folks we are, we're planning on spending that money on the house. (Well, some of it...)
We have a junk room downstairs that's filled with boxes since we moved in, which we've wanted to convert to a man cave (Well, I want it to be a man cave, she wants more of a gender neutral cave) and I want to get moving on it. We fight over the TV constantly, so cleaning the room up, getting a second TV in there, and - here's the good bit - building a bar has been approved. Since I've been getting real sick of bottling, perfect time for... a kegerator!!
The budget for doing this is going to be tight. $600 is what I have to play with, given we want to put a TV in there, will need some furniture, etc. It still means I can snag a kit from kegconnection.com, as well as leaving a bit left to snag a freezer or mini fridge.
The issue I run into is going to be aesthetics. I'm leaning towards the keezer, purely because of space. I want to be able to have three kegs (four would be nice), and that's not going to happen with a mini fridge. The space available is tight, tho - a 4' x 4' corner that the keezer (as well as a shelf unit for hard liquor, glasses, etc.) will have to fit into.
It LOOKS like the freezer will be a 7.0cf one - either the GE model from Home Depot, or the Holiday one from Lowes - so then it comes down to making it look good.
I understand the reasoning behind adding a collar - both to increase the storage space, and to give a safe area for mounting the taps - but if I were to go with a tower, I assume the collar would no longer be necessary?
Has anyone built a keezer with a completely custom lid? Meaning, ditching the entire lid altogether, and making one (with collar) completely from scratch, using wood and their own insulation?
So it's tax time again, and one of the benefits (if you could call it that) of an enormous mortgage is that we actually get some cash back from Uncie Sam. And being the practical folks we are, we're planning on spending that money on the house. (Well, some of it...)
We have a junk room downstairs that's filled with boxes since we moved in, which we've wanted to convert to a man cave (Well, I want it to be a man cave, she wants more of a gender neutral cave) and I want to get moving on it. We fight over the TV constantly, so cleaning the room up, getting a second TV in there, and - here's the good bit - building a bar has been approved. Since I've been getting real sick of bottling, perfect time for... a kegerator!!
The budget for doing this is going to be tight. $600 is what I have to play with, given we want to put a TV in there, will need some furniture, etc. It still means I can snag a kit from kegconnection.com, as well as leaving a bit left to snag a freezer or mini fridge.
The issue I run into is going to be aesthetics. I'm leaning towards the keezer, purely because of space. I want to be able to have three kegs (four would be nice), and that's not going to happen with a mini fridge. The space available is tight, tho - a 4' x 4' corner that the keezer (as well as a shelf unit for hard liquor, glasses, etc.) will have to fit into.
It LOOKS like the freezer will be a 7.0cf one - either the GE model from Home Depot, or the Holiday one from Lowes - so then it comes down to making it look good.
I understand the reasoning behind adding a collar - both to increase the storage space, and to give a safe area for mounting the taps - but if I were to go with a tower, I assume the collar would no longer be necessary?
Has anyone built a keezer with a completely custom lid? Meaning, ditching the entire lid altogether, and making one (with collar) completely from scratch, using wood and their own insulation?