In the lab I work in, a coworker got married this past weekend, and had asked me to do the main beverages for her. the wedding and reception were all on a boat, and bringing a kegerator of any kind was out of the question. i decided to build a new jockey box, my other jockey boxes could only handle two beverages at a time each, so that would limit me to four beverages, and they would be serving from coolers, which would not look very good for a wedding, so i built a new one. i used birch plywood and 2x4's for the structure, a 6 pass cold plate, stain, and spar eurethane.
more pictures can be found starting at this link: http://www.pbase.com/melvinfeng/image/77564269
i had a bavarian hefeweizen, american IPA, traditional mead, hard cider, root beer, and ginger ale through the box. you can see the sheet metal i used as a backing plate, it doubled as a splash guard as well as a magnetic backing for my labels that i printed out credit-card size, and then used the adhesive magnetic backing to place it on. it worked extremely well for the first run, although i didn't calculate very well how much ice i would need. i only bought 30 lbs of ice, and went through that pretty quickly, so i ended up with very foamy beer towards the end of the reception, but other than that it was a good experience.
i also made the box large enough so that in the future, if i want to upgrade, i can place one of my other 2 pass cold plates next to the 6 pass, and i can put in another shank on each side, making this into an 8 keg dispensing jockey box, which would be even more than my kegerator (6-keg kegerator).
more pictures can be found starting at this link: http://www.pbase.com/melvinfeng/image/77564269
i had a bavarian hefeweizen, american IPA, traditional mead, hard cider, root beer, and ginger ale through the box. you can see the sheet metal i used as a backing plate, it doubled as a splash guard as well as a magnetic backing for my labels that i printed out credit-card size, and then used the adhesive magnetic backing to place it on. it worked extremely well for the first run, although i didn't calculate very well how much ice i would need. i only bought 30 lbs of ice, and went through that pretty quickly, so i ended up with very foamy beer towards the end of the reception, but other than that it was a good experience.
i also made the box large enough so that in the future, if i want to upgrade, i can place one of my other 2 pass cold plates next to the 6 pass, and i can put in another shank on each side, making this into an 8 keg dispensing jockey box, which would be even more than my kegerator (6-keg kegerator).