Laphroaig
I Love Scotch. Scotchy, Scotch, Scotch.
New guy here, but a long time lurker I suppose. I'd say 60% of my googling of homebrew related items brings me here. So I decided this an appropriate place to post my Kegerator Build!
Recently my Keezer bit the dust, and with warming beer and mold growing exponentially.. I decided it was time to hit the Facebook marketplace/craigslist for the next project. I haggled and brought home this side by side. I don't plan to do a chamber for fermenting, so this is a pretty easy build.
I only had to shave a portion of the drawer slides to get the kegs to fit, and I kept the bottom drawer for reasons. I didn't really trust the plastic shelf alone for holding up 20 gallons of beer so I modified a commercial baking sheet as some reinforcement. Four kegs fit, just barely, but I knew that before buying it. My two pin locks will have to serve another purpose!
My old keezer was a hot mess of Homebrew/Brewery stickers and chipped paint. I wanted this one to be a little more classic. For reasons of lack of space, and just generally not having to open my fridge all the time, the gas and regulation are all on the side of the fridge. I also switched from 1/4" Flare to John Guest Fittings, both on gas and beer side. I made everything color coded with colored zip ties. I think it looks a little better and is easier to label, as well as identify than the traditional tape/numbering. I labeled everything from connectors to kegs. This has helped a ton with organization. At this point I was also looking at drip trays, and I found one for cheap on an amazon warehouse deal that had a glass rinser in it. Why not. A coworker of mine is much more skilled at wood work than I, and helped me with both the drip tray frame as well as the bulkhead for the air lines into the fridge.
I added a large coil of poly tubing to the back of the kegs that is fed off the pinlock keg of water on the outside of the fridge. This keeps the water that sprays the glass cool, so it has a chilling and rinsing effect on the glass. Bonus, I also fed the fridge from the keg, so the ice maker and water dispenser work. Feeding from the keg is only temporary, i'm planning to plumb it in (soonish). Also, it currently drains to a bucket. Not an elegant solution.. but remember that drawer I kept from the beginning? it very likely will drain there in the near future. Or if anyone has any better ideas!
Cheers! Thanks for looking. I'm quite happy with the results. Just a little touch up left.
Recently my Keezer bit the dust, and with warming beer and mold growing exponentially.. I decided it was time to hit the Facebook marketplace/craigslist for the next project. I haggled and brought home this side by side. I don't plan to do a chamber for fermenting, so this is a pretty easy build.
I only had to shave a portion of the drawer slides to get the kegs to fit, and I kept the bottom drawer for reasons. I didn't really trust the plastic shelf alone for holding up 20 gallons of beer so I modified a commercial baking sheet as some reinforcement. Four kegs fit, just barely, but I knew that before buying it. My two pin locks will have to serve another purpose!
My old keezer was a hot mess of Homebrew/Brewery stickers and chipped paint. I wanted this one to be a little more classic. For reasons of lack of space, and just generally not having to open my fridge all the time, the gas and regulation are all on the side of the fridge. I also switched from 1/4" Flare to John Guest Fittings, both on gas and beer side. I made everything color coded with colored zip ties. I think it looks a little better and is easier to label, as well as identify than the traditional tape/numbering. I labeled everything from connectors to kegs. This has helped a ton with organization. At this point I was also looking at drip trays, and I found one for cheap on an amazon warehouse deal that had a glass rinser in it. Why not. A coworker of mine is much more skilled at wood work than I, and helped me with both the drip tray frame as well as the bulkhead for the air lines into the fridge.
I added a large coil of poly tubing to the back of the kegs that is fed off the pinlock keg of water on the outside of the fridge. This keeps the water that sprays the glass cool, so it has a chilling and rinsing effect on the glass. Bonus, I also fed the fridge from the keg, so the ice maker and water dispenser work. Feeding from the keg is only temporary, i'm planning to plumb it in (soonish). Also, it currently drains to a bucket. Not an elegant solution.. but remember that drawer I kept from the beginning? it very likely will drain there in the near future. Or if anyone has any better ideas!
Cheers! Thanks for looking. I'm quite happy with the results. Just a little touch up left.
