Recent content by Frock

Oh yeah, a quick update - the wife and i decided to sell our home and move into a new home. So, I had the floors re-finished and the keezer is, of course, built in. Therefore, the floors under the keezer were not re-finished. I had to leave the keezer behind. Now, I know you are all thinking -...

Lastly the finished product. I happened to build a nice panel to cover the freezer. The panel was pre-cut oak from the box store with a 1/4 inch thick oak veneer plywood. I stained it the same color as the cabinets and then finished the cabinets and panel with 4-5 coats of wipe on poly. The...

Post 3: As you can see the tubing is being held in PVC Pipe. The pipe provides some insulation properties to the surrounding atmosphere. I ran 5 lines in the pipe. 3 for beer and 2 were for spares or glycol cooling in the future.

Post 2: So, the tap tower was made from scrap material from the counter top. I finished the counter top in that Mirror Coat epoxy finish. I finished the tap tower in wipe on poly. The Tap Tower was built in a community wood shop - that for 100bucks rents out its shop for a month. They have...

Since everyone loves a good keezer build, i figured i would post mine. Rather than go stand-alone keezer, i wanted a full bar built around the keezer. So after research i found a Fridgidair model freezer that was only 22" deep - thus the standard counter depth could be achieved. Post 1: the...

Kilkeny Ale is straight up Smithwicks on nitrogen. They just modified the recipe a little to up the ABV and IBU. The tour guide said IBUs in ball park of Guinness, ABV in the area of 5-5.5%. They said the standard Smithwicks recipe creates a medicinal flavor when the ABV is increased, but no one...