Hi crew,
I've been brewing for about 5 years now, but have been pretty silent around the forum (hopefully changing that now). As a quick background I am a big DIY kind of guy and as such have a ton of "extra" stuff laying around my shop.
My oldest kid is having the yearly fund raiser, and my wife and I got roped into running the auction. Last year one of the biggest hits was a craft beer party that was auctioned (my wife's idea). Me and two other homebrewers supplied all the beer for the party, and some others supplied the food. It was a MASSIVE hit, and this year I was asked to provide some homebrew for the fund raiser as well. While my wife was getting everything organized she told me that I should build "something prettier" than 2 kegs in a trashcan with picnic taps....), so I set off to work.
She's Franken-bar because I have almost $25 in the bar (not counting keg equipment and taps). I spent $5.67 on chalkboard paint, and under $20 on two computer fans from Radioshack. Everything else was scavenged from old projects and stuff I saved while renovating the house. Let me know what you think.
Found an old formica (pretty huh?) bar top that was left over from our initial house renovation. Slapped some plywood legs and was off on the build.
Built a top box for the taps (only 2 for now, but have a good plan to expand). The bottom I'm tracing to cut out 2 4" holes to mount fans to keep the taps and line cold.
Got the PVC attachments cut and glued in place (plan is 1 fan drawing air into the box and second fan blowing hotter air back to the keezer via PVC cut out in the lid). All that beautiful brown stuff is exterior caulk that I collected after replastering my pool (that project SUCKED).
Wired up my fans, mounted them in place, sealed up the box, plugged it in and ready for a test run.
All done!!! Just need to mount the taps, hook it up, and enjoy the party! Wife loved the end result so much that it's going to be the newest addition to our backporch
(somehow I lucked my way into a good one).
All ideas, scrutiny, and comments are welcome. This was a fun and quick little project,
Will
I've been brewing for about 5 years now, but have been pretty silent around the forum (hopefully changing that now). As a quick background I am a big DIY kind of guy and as such have a ton of "extra" stuff laying around my shop.
My oldest kid is having the yearly fund raiser, and my wife and I got roped into running the auction. Last year one of the biggest hits was a craft beer party that was auctioned (my wife's idea). Me and two other homebrewers supplied all the beer for the party, and some others supplied the food. It was a MASSIVE hit, and this year I was asked to provide some homebrew for the fund raiser as well. While my wife was getting everything organized she told me that I should build "something prettier" than 2 kegs in a trashcan with picnic taps....), so I set off to work.
She's Franken-bar because I have almost $25 in the bar (not counting keg equipment and taps). I spent $5.67 on chalkboard paint, and under $20 on two computer fans from Radioshack. Everything else was scavenged from old projects and stuff I saved while renovating the house. Let me know what you think.
Found an old formica (pretty huh?) bar top that was left over from our initial house renovation. Slapped some plywood legs and was off on the build.
Built a top box for the taps (only 2 for now, but have a good plan to expand). The bottom I'm tracing to cut out 2 4" holes to mount fans to keep the taps and line cold.
Got the PVC attachments cut and glued in place (plan is 1 fan drawing air into the box and second fan blowing hotter air back to the keezer via PVC cut out in the lid). All that beautiful brown stuff is exterior caulk that I collected after replastering my pool (that project SUCKED).
Wired up my fans, mounted them in place, sealed up the box, plugged it in and ready for a test run.
All done!!! Just need to mount the taps, hook it up, and enjoy the party! Wife loved the end result so much that it's going to be the newest addition to our backporch
(somehow I lucked my way into a good one). All ideas, scrutiny, and comments are welcome. This was a fun and quick little project,
Will
