Classywolf
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Cheers everyone. Thank you all for your ideas. I’ve pulled from a number of sources on here and wanted to share my own experience. I’m finishing my basement and wanted to have an in-wall tap system. To achieve this, I positioned a utility room directly adjacent to the bar. That way, the keezer would be right behind the taps.
Here is the location of the future tap wall. The first step was to run a cold water line and drain so I could utilize a glass rinser.
Below is a sketch of the plan for the keezer. I would use a short trunk of insulated pvc running the beer lines and a cooling fan line up to an insulated box which house the shanks.
Here is the front of the build. I wanted the taps to be recessed. So I built a basic box where the taps would live.
Here is the back of the box and the freezer. It is a HotPoint 8.8cu from Lowe’s. Below the tap box is an access cutout for drain and water line maintenance.
The insulated cooling box would then be built and attached to the recessed box.
Added a wood backer to the front side where the taps would be mounted to. Then drilled holes through all of the sections leading to the cooling box. Inserted shanks and insulated with rigid board.
Next was adding the collar to the freezer. Pretty straight forward. Used 1-1/8”x6”pine. Stained and liquid nailed to the frame of the freezer. Reattached hinges and drilled a hole for the trunk line.
I then added the pvc trunk. It goes out of the freezer, 1x 90 degree turn up, then into the cooling box. Used some duct seal on each end to hold it in place and seal the holes. I then insulated the collar and fed the beer lines and cooling line through the trunk. I used “cold tower” off Amazon and added a longer piece of hose to blow cold air up into the cooling box.
CO2 manifold was added
Installed “inkbird” to regulate the temperature and insulated the pvc trunk line
Here is the location of the future tap wall. The first step was to run a cold water line and drain so I could utilize a glass rinser.

Below is a sketch of the plan for the keezer. I would use a short trunk of insulated pvc running the beer lines and a cooling fan line up to an insulated box which house the shanks.

Here is the front of the build. I wanted the taps to be recessed. So I built a basic box where the taps would live.

Here is the back of the box and the freezer. It is a HotPoint 8.8cu from Lowe’s. Below the tap box is an access cutout for drain and water line maintenance.

The insulated cooling box would then be built and attached to the recessed box.




Added a wood backer to the front side where the taps would be mounted to. Then drilled holes through all of the sections leading to the cooling box. Inserted shanks and insulated with rigid board.


Next was adding the collar to the freezer. Pretty straight forward. Used 1-1/8”x6”pine. Stained and liquid nailed to the frame of the freezer. Reattached hinges and drilled a hole for the trunk line.



I then added the pvc trunk. It goes out of the freezer, 1x 90 degree turn up, then into the cooling box. Used some duct seal on each end to hold it in place and seal the holes. I then insulated the collar and fed the beer lines and cooling line through the trunk. I used “cold tower” off Amazon and added a longer piece of hose to blow cold air up into the cooling box.




CO2 manifold was added

Installed “inkbird” to regulate the temperature and insulated the pvc trunk line

