Do chest freezers usually go on sale at particular times of the year, such as holidays or similar? We're planning on making a kreezer here in the next month or so, but I'd hate to buy a freezer for $500 for it to go on sale for $400 a week later or something like that.
I'm new here. I've never made homemade fermented alcoholic drinks before, but I've planned on making cider/wine from various fruit for a few years now. Problem was I kept moving before the fruit I planted to get into production.
Recently picked up some used winemaking supplies, and decided to make some cider. Stumbled on Edwort's apfelwein and decided that would be my first ever batch of fermented homemade drink with storebought apple juice. I'm thinking of dabbling in making beer as well at some point.
Then since I'm going to actually start some cider/apfelwein, and since we had been talking about getting a kegerator recently anyway for commercial/craft beer keg purchases, we just decided to go all in and we bought the two 5-gallon corny keg kit with regulator and lines from Northern Brewer. We can always get a sanke adapter and use that for commercial beer/cider kegs, but somehow I doubt we'll buy commercial kegs if we're making homemade kegs...
I want to get a freezer with room to grow, as I expect we'll probably want 3-4 beers/ciders on tap at any particular time, with room for additional kegs and probably some commercially produced beer/cider bottles (although I suspect we won't have as many of those hanging around once the homemade stuff starts coming down the pipeline).
I was thinking we may just go right to a 14 cubic foot model to give us plenty of growing room. Plus while I doubt we will ever have ~11 kegs, the extra room will double as extra refrigerator space, which could always come in handy if we're hosting large gatherings and people bring food.
Any thoughts welcome.
I'm new here. I've never made homemade fermented alcoholic drinks before, but I've planned on making cider/wine from various fruit for a few years now. Problem was I kept moving before the fruit I planted to get into production.
Recently picked up some used winemaking supplies, and decided to make some cider. Stumbled on Edwort's apfelwein and decided that would be my first ever batch of fermented homemade drink with storebought apple juice. I'm thinking of dabbling in making beer as well at some point.
Then since I'm going to actually start some cider/apfelwein, and since we had been talking about getting a kegerator recently anyway for commercial/craft beer keg purchases, we just decided to go all in and we bought the two 5-gallon corny keg kit with regulator and lines from Northern Brewer. We can always get a sanke adapter and use that for commercial beer/cider kegs, but somehow I doubt we'll buy commercial kegs if we're making homemade kegs...
I want to get a freezer with room to grow, as I expect we'll probably want 3-4 beers/ciders on tap at any particular time, with room for additional kegs and probably some commercially produced beer/cider bottles (although I suspect we won't have as many of those hanging around once the homemade stuff starts coming down the pipeline).
I was thinking we may just go right to a 14 cubic foot model to give us plenty of growing room. Plus while I doubt we will ever have ~11 kegs, the extra room will double as extra refrigerator space, which could always come in handy if we're hosting large gatherings and people bring food.
Any thoughts welcome.
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