Keezer: I guess it's my turn

[CGVT]

Thought I'd update.

I've been using my Keezer for about eight months now and it has been fantastic. I did have a problem with my controller not working right and freezing a couple of kegs, but it seems to be ok now.

This is the finished product:

and these are some of the tap handles that I have made. Nothing fancy, but they serve the purpose

 

[pannell77]

looks good, nice tap handles. you make a new one for each brew?

 

[CGVT]

I have some other generic handles. Other than the Princess these are on a pretty regular rotation. I made the Princess for a Blonde that I made for my wife's Bunco group. I tend to make them as a novelty-it is pretty obvious that I don't put a lot of time into them. I make them out of scraps I have around and use a saber saw, a hand planer, angle grinder, sander and wood burner to make them. It only takes a couple of hours, so if I get some free time, I'm sure I'll make more.

 

[Orthobrewsky]

Thought I'd update.

I've been using my Keezer for about eight months now and it has been fantastic. I did have a problem with my controller not working right and freezing a couple of kegs, but it seems to be ok now.

This is the finished product:

and these are some of the tap handles that I have made. Nothing fancy, but they serve the purpose

Very nice.

 

[CGVT]

Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it

 

[Dan]

Thought I'd update.

I've been using my Keezer for about eight months now and it has been fantastic. I did have a problem with my controller not working right and freezing a couple of kegs, but it seems to be ok now.

This is the finished product:

and these are some of the tap handles that I have made. Nothing fancy, but they serve the purpose

Congrats on a beautiful keezer. Thoroughly enjoyed this thread and learned a few things along the way. Thank you. The tap handles are great; just one question though. How did you mount them to the faucet?

and happy brewing.

 

[CGVT]

Thanks, Dan, I'm not sure where I bought them, but I bought ferrules and hanger bolts like these from MoreBeer http://morebeer.com/category/beer-tap-handles.html

I made the handles from scrap wood I had laying around that I cut with a jig saw and shaped with a sanding disc on my angle grinder. They are not precise by any means. The hardest part was drilling a reasonably straight hole to put the hanger bolts in. I am not an artist by any means, I just drew my designs, used a wood burner to burn them into the wood and then coated them with shellac that I had left over from the Keezer. They were a fun project that didn't take very long to do.

BTW you can get hanger bolts at Home Depot for less$$ but they are longer so you have to drill a deeper hole to mount them in the handle.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Just curious... Where's your gas bottle & regulator?

I have mine inside the keezer. I thinking of adding Nitro and snaking the gas line up the condensate drain. I don't have room for another bottle in the keezer.

BTW - Very nice set-up!


EDIT: Actually did more than look at the photo's.... I see its inside. I didn't notice it the pictures until read your first post.

 

[CGVT]

Thanks.

I ended up running a line and putting it behind or on the side. I have a 20lb tank and a 5lb tank. The twenty won't fit inside.

If I was building this again, I wouldn't have bothered hinging both the collar and the lid. I thought that I would open the collar to change kegs, but have found that I only open the top.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I ordered my beer gas on Monday. Also managed to push a 3/16 gas line through the condensate drain. No drilling holes in my keezer walls. Now I'll have one bottle outside the keezer.

Don't mean to spam your thread, but reading your thread convinced me to pull the nitro trigger.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Adding nitro soon

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[CGVT]

I've been using my keezer for over 5 years now, so I thought I would update. Photo bucket wants me to pay for third party hosting, so the pictures don't show up in the thread. I'll have to post them from my computer. I can't go back and edit my posts to add them, so I'll put them here (if anybody cares to look. Ha!)

I bought stainless plated Perlick taps instead of the solid stainless taps and saved a good bit of $$. After 5 years if use there is no sign of any failure in the plating. I'm glad I saved the money.

I switched to polyethylene beer line. It wasn't too hard to install and definitely worth it. There is no vinyl taste if I don't pour a beer for a while.

Attaching the plywood to the skin of the freezer has caused no problem

If I had it to do over again, I would use and STC 1000 for temp control. They are cheap, easy to wire and the display would have looked cool. Ha!

 

[CGVT]

More pics

 

[CGVT]

Another thing to add to the update:

I spent a lot of time putting hinges on the collar as well as the lid. I thought if I could open the collar it would make it easier to move kegs in and out. It was a waste of my time. I never open the collar. I always open the lid when I move kegs in and out. If I had known, I could have saved the headache of drilling (and re-drilling) trying to get everything to line up

 

[Dan]

That tile top is beautiful. I might just copy your idea [emoji6]