Get rid of yer keg--fridge now!!

[Bernie Brewer]

Ya know, I'd love to help save our planet, but right now, I need to ride the four-wheeler out across the cow pasture to my oil heated shop, retrieve some spotted owl breasts from my 1956 IH freezer, put a match to the burn barrel, and split up some old growth timber for kindling. If only I could see the shop through all of this smoke from the burning tires.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

 

[Docapi]

HA! Yeah, the other two weeks of the year they're actually refridgering something.

Nah, those 2 weeks they just need them so the skeeters won't take everything away.

 

[Zymurgrafi]

Hey! My kegerator is MORE energy efficient than my food fridge! Bigger too! So there!

I have my priorities straight!

 

[lustreking]

The Canadian Appliance Manufacturers Association estimates that typical 1985 refrigerator models use 1060 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy per year, while a 1975 model uses 1580 kWh per year. In contrast, more recent and energy-efficient models can use as little as 380 kWh per year.

What about my 1940something fermentation refrigerator?

One of these days I'm going to sand it down and paint it. It should be beautiful when it's finished.

 

[IowaStateFan]

Well, it looks like there's really no need to panic unless you're Canadian. foxnews.com is reporting "Study: Canadian Beer Drinkers Threaten Planet"[/URL] here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313844,00.html. The rest of the world's beer drinkers are much more responsible.

 

[Chriso]

The problem is that the beer fridges are mostly decades-old machines that began their second careers as beverage dispensers when Canadians upgraded to more energy-efficient models to store whatever Canadians eat besides doughnuts and poutine.

Nationalist bastards! Just because an American wrote the article doesn't mean the Canadians are all bad!

Signed,
An American Who Wishes He Was Born In Canada

 

[FSR402]

Well, it looks like there's really no need to panic unless you're Canadian. foxnews.com is reporting "Study: Canadian Beer Drinkers Threaten Planet"[/URL] here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313844,00.html. The rest of the world's beer drinkers are much more responsible.

Like I have said many times... We should just turn that place into one bis A mirror.. Nuke them....

 

[adx]

Like I have said many times... We should just turn that place into one bis A mirror.. Nuke them....

Canada or Fox News?

 

[Chad]

On a slightly more serious note . . . has anyone calculated the disposal costs of an old refrigerator versus the ongoing energy costs of using them as beer fridges?

I have an older (yet still Energy Star compliant) fridge in our garage. It came with the house and since we had a much better fridge it was relegated to secondary duty. It has since become the beer, brewing ingredients, film storage fridge. I can't imagine that running it is any more harmful to the environment than disposing of it. C'mon, how many non-biodegradable elements are in the average fridge? Does the few kWh that this thing sucks up each year outweigh the longterm landfill costs and environmental consequences of dumping it? Even with older, inefficient fridges, it's got to be better to keep them chugging along than to toss 'em in a landfill.

Just wondering.
Chad

 

[Ize]

So in the end, it's NOT a "frivolous luxury". Turns out we're "eco-friendly".

Someone tell the woman in the story to RDWHAHB, we're doing our part in helping the planet. :rockin:

Ize

 

[FSR402]

Canada or Fox News?

Both would work for me.

 

[luwak]

It’s not my fringe that does the damage it’s my source of electricity.

Here in Australia we can purchase green electricity if we want. Solar, wind, hydro etc.
Now that my home has switched to green electricity it is my responsibility, to the planet, to drink more beer and run more second fridges. Thereby increasing demand, supply and eventually through the economics of scale help reduce the price of green electricity for others.

Ok, well, drinking more beer and switching to white meat. Dam cows don’t taste as good as my flame BBQ chicken thighs anyway!

Cheers

 

[sirsloop]

I Want 2 Fridges 5 Cars 2 Houses And Zero Jobs... The American Way!!

Ha!

 

[billtzk]

I have three side-by-side fridge/freezers and an upright deep freezer. It's barely enough. None of mine are old, though. The oldest one is barely ten years old.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Firvolous? Frivolous????? My a$$. If I didn't have a second fridge I wouldn't have ANY room for beer.

I have a kitchen fridge, a beer fridge, an upright freezer, and have acquired a smaller fridge that will become a two tap kegerator. :rockin:

Frivolous?? Smoke me.

Ize

I hear you...a kitchen fridge, a beer fridge, an upright freezer, a kegerator and a keezer... As long as I pay my bill I'm keeping those people employed...

I don't see what the fuss is all about...the world's ending on Dec 21, 2012 anyway!! (It's the last day of the Mayan Calendar).

 

[beergears]

...the world's ending on Dec 21, 2012 anyway!! (It's the last day of the Mayan Calendar).

Incorrect common interpretation of the way Mayans counted... the counting is cyclical, said an erudite guide at Coba, in the Yucatan.

 

[Seabee John]

Incorrect common interpretation of the way Mayans counted... the counting is cyclical, said an erudite guide at Coba, in the Yucatan.

So when the hell is the last day? I was counting on that... running up my credit card bill at the LHBS & stuff.

 

[EdWort]

Fricking Global Warming Scam Artists. Continuing to look for ways to force changes on our way of living while coming up with schemes that will increase taxes for redistributing wealth (while at the same time living a hypocritical life).

By abandoning beer fridges altogether, Canada's 11.5 million households could save 3500 million kWh each year, says Young.
Class divide

Actually if all of Canada's global warming libtards moved to Sweden, Canada would save billions in entitlement spending and life would be great.

I'm keeping my kitchen fridge, kitchen beer fridge, 21 cu. ft. upright freezer, Barn fridge, Garage Beer Fridge, and 3 chest freezers for fermenting & storing beer.

I also have a lifetime supply of incandescent light bulbs which work great in cold weather and only cost me 24 cents each. I won't have to worry about all the mercury seeping into the ground water at landfills from the curly bulbs, nor will I have to get the EPA involved if I break one in the house, spreading mercury all over.

I gladly pay my electric bill each month.

/rant off

 

[EdWort]

I don't see what the fuss is all about...the world's ending on Dec 21, 2012 anyway!! (It's the last day of the Mayan Calendar).

Cool! We need to come up with a 121212 beer. We would have 9 days to get hammered before EOTW.

 

[Chriso]

Cool! We need to come up with a 121212 beer. We would have 9 days to get hammered before EOTW.

I was just scribbling ideas onto paper for 9/9/9 and 12/12/12, funny you should mention.

I think both are gonna have to be monstrous brews though. Unless we choose to apply our numerology elsewhere (ingredient list, ibu's, etc), I think we're looking at a 1.099 beer and a 1.120 beer. I guess it could ferment DOWN to 1.012. Hm.