cat-proofing a keezer

[jack13]

Directly punishing said naughty cat, depending on whether you're their Favorite Human or not, may induce holding a grudge.
When mine act up, I chase them down and give 'em hugs. Being the fickle, asocial personalities they are, it sometimes deters them without harming them - but they're all different in certain ways.

My little female cat loooooved me but barely tolerated my wife. Little Cat would catch things and intentionally put them, dead or alive, into wife's shoes.
Never mine, only hers .

I'm definitely her favorite human!

 

[jack13]

Update, y'all:

I decided to exploit the homo sapiens - felis catus strength differential, i.e., to shorten the tap handles to a point that makes them tougher to open. Plus the tops of the handles are now below the level of the top of the keezer. So they should not likely open from various cat messings-about (which are ostensibly not purpose-driven...right...right?).

Cutting the tap handles revealed that the taps are hollow, so I finished by glueing pennies on top.

Here's a picture:

Thanks again for the ideas!

 

[jack13]

Was just reviewing ideas above in case the cat is much stronger than I thought...

Thought I'd mention that the reason I did not go for the spring idea, which only allows beer to flow if you hold the tap open, is that would make it very hard for me to bottle beer from the tap using my current method. Said method--which I like and doesn't require any equipment--requires two hands, leaving me no free hand to hold the tap open.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Said method--which I like and doesn't require any equipment--requires two hands, leaving me no free hand to hold the tap open.

Are you still brewing with just the two hands you were born with? How quaint. I've evolved a third brewing-specific limb that can simultaneously hold my beer, check my fly, and wink at the ladies. This leaves my two ape-limbs free to hoist and squeeze my bag, crank the ole' malt crusher, etc.

 

[jack13]

Are you still brewing with just the two hands you were born with? How quaint. I've evolved a third brewing-specific limb that can simultaneously hold my beer, check my fly, and wink at the ladies. This leaves my two ape-limbs free to hoist and squeeze my bag, crank the ole' malt crusher, etc.

You know, there are some posts that leave me not knowing where to even begin a reply. Above is one.

 

[Cantina De Jefe]

What about an inline shutoff valve upstream of the tap? Would be invisible from the exterior.