POLL: How Many refrigerators do you own?

[Jayjay1976]

I'd love to get my hands on one of those beautiful old fridges that last forever and restore it. I'd resist the urge to turn it into a kegerator and just keep it full of bottled beer.

Man just thinking about it I'd brew up a vintage recipe pale lager and bottle it with some custom old-timey labels. I think I have a new project!!

 

[grampamark]

I think I can post this here without judgement...1 large fridge/freezer for the family, 1 lagering freezer with an Inkbird to keep it at 34 degrees, 1 kegerator, 2 freezer fermentation chambers (small), 1 large refrigerator for fermentation (conical), 1 hop freezer, 1 outdoor refrigerator that my wife will not let me use as a ferm chamber, 1 upstairs (never used, but kept cold), 1 small hop freezer, 1 small pantry built in fridge that doubles as a yeast bank. That. Is. It. 11...

Damn! You’ve got me by one.

 

[grampamark]

I'd love to get my hands on one of those beautiful old fridges that last forever and restore it. I'd resist the urge to turn it into a kegerator and just keep it full of bottled beer.

Man just thinking about it I'd brew up a vintage recipe pale lager and bottle it with some custom old-timey labels. I think I have a new project!!

Here’s my ferm fridge, a 1949 Hotpoint. I thought about restoring it, cosmetically, but decided that the patina was cooler.

 

[bracconiere]

That. Is. It. 11...

at least enough that i'd have to sober up to do the math to see if you're right.....

 

[RCope]

And that doesn't count the small office refrigerator...which I do use for an occasional 6-pack brought to co-workers...12

 

[Jayjay1976]

Here’s my ferm fridge, a 1949 Hotpoint. I thought about restoring it, cosmetically, but decided that the patina was cooler.
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Well she's so pretty she don't need a thing!! Super jealous!

This might be a bit personal, but could you post a pic of the interior? For research purposes of course....

 

[bracconiere]

Well she's so pretty she don't need a thing!! Super jealous!

This might be a bit personal, but could you post a pic of the interior? For research purposes of course....

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we all know you have a column!

 

[grampamark]

Well she's so pretty she don't need a thing!! Super jealous!

This might be a bit personal, but could you post a pic of the interior? For research purposes of course....

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Here ya go. I put the empty fermenter in to show that it will hold 2 bucket or Better Bottle size vessels. The small shelf next to the freezer compartment can be easily removed for a little extra height on that side. With the shelf removed the interior dimensions are about 22” wide X 15” deep X 30” to the bottom of the freezer.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Here ya go. I put the empty fermenter in to show that it will hold 2 bucket or Better Bottle size vessels. The small shelf next to the freezer compartment can be easily removed for a little extra height on that side. With the shelf removed the interior dimensions are about 22” wide X 15” deep X 30” to the bottom of the freezer.
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Gorgeous, and super useful dimensions for homebrewing. What I wouldn't give to drop a batch in there.. I need to change my pants.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I'm on OfferUp app looking at vintage and antique refrigerators locally, a lot of potentials out there and asking quite a bit less than last time I looked a couple years back... This just might happen for me after all.

 

[Jayjay1976]

My current ferm chamber, that Rockstar fridge with inkbird controller,, pretty much going commando. Would rather use it to serve a single keg in my living room.

Holy crap what a mess, that was in the middle of me reconfiguring my biab brew stand and rearranging a bunch of gear. Other than the pepto pink it's usually not that ridiculous.

 

[bracconiere]

My current ferm chamber, that Rockstar fridge with inkbird controller,, pretty much going commando. Would rather use it to serve a single keg in my living room.

Holy crap what a mess, that was in the middle of me reconfiguring my biab brew stand and rearranging a bunch of gear. Other than the pepto pink it's usually not that ridiculous.
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so you're the drug dealer that this guy has on speed dial, being it looks like your 'column' is going straight into a rockstar!

 

[Knightshade]

I've got 5. One "Family" fridge in the kitchen..the rest are all in the garage dedicated to a beer function of some type or another.

 

[madscientist451]

I've got 4, all bought used, do freezers count?

 

[Jayjay1976]

Shoot, I didn't include the Rockstar fridge in my original count. Have 4 fridges, own 3. Adding a glycol chiller very soon.

 

[CKuhns]

4 Fridges
1 Freezer
1 Keggerator
1 Twelve Volt Mini fridge on the pontoon. (Holds 24 bottles or cans)

 

[Beermeister32]

7 mini refrigerators in the garage set at different useful temps plus 1 full size in the kitchen.

4 mini refrigerators at my company for food and beer storage, located warehouse, office, and two of them for my secret beer stash in the computer server room. Gives a whole new meaning to the word server. I’m the boss.

2 useful minis I have in storage on a pallet.

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14 total refrigerators

 

[bracconiere]

7 mini refrigerators in the garage set at different useful temps plus 1 full size in the kitchen.

4 mini refrigerators at my company for food and beer storage, located warehouse, office, and two of them for my secret beer stash in the computer server room. Gives a whole new meaning to the word server. I’m the boss.

2 useful minis I have in storage on a pallet.

11digital controls
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14 total refrigerators

well being they're all many though, should i divide by something?

 

[Beermeister32]

No, they are all full of beer!

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Now up to 6... My fermentation fridge had turned into a "freezer overload" fridge, meaning that it was unusable for fermentation as the Ranco can't keep it at fermentation temp while the freezer... Freezes.

So my wife and I complete reconfigured the garage last weekend, and I just bought a smallish (11 cf) upright freezer from Costco to ensure that I have enough freezer space.

My fridges/freezers:

• Main fridge (kitchen). Self explanatory.
• Kegerator (kitchen). Sadly a problem because it hasn't had kegs of homebrew in it for a long while. But it's an upright ~21 cf convertible fridge/freezer used as a six-tap kegerator that also has excess space for other beer / wine / whatever we need in the kitchen storage.
• Wine fridge (kitchen). Self explanatory. Dual-zone 155-bottle wine fridge that ensures that we keep all of our white and red at optimal storage (and serving) temp.
• Spare fridge (garage). Used for anything that exceeds the capacity of the kitchen fridge, cold storage of canned beer, most of our frozen meat, etc.
• Fermentation fridge (garage). Supposed to be dedicated to fermentation of beer. But as stated above, because the biggest limitation in our fridge/freezer space is freezer, it's been used primarily as a freezer. Basically holds most of the frozen foods / frozen pizza / etc that we have for kids' lunches and "frozen pizza night" when we don't want to cook.
• New upright freezer (garage). Basically added to increase freezer space but not be a chest freezer (due to limited footprint) to augment our freezer space such that I can turn the fermentation fridge back into a fermentation fridge, as I no longer need to care about its freezer capacity.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

My wife just said the sexiest thing ever...

"Baby, I think you might need to buy me another fridge!"

Yep... She's a keeper...

 

[sibelman]

Main fridge, kegerator, fermentation chamber, and a small wine fridge.

 

[Skeeter686]

Is this why the electric company keeps sending me info on how to reduce my consumption?

Let's see...
Kitchen fridge (food)
Deep freezer (food)
Second fridge / freezer (hops, curing bacon, overflow)
Small beer fridge
Keezer
Lagering fridge (chest freezer with Inkbird)
Fermentation chamber (dorm fridge with insulated extension)
Glycol chiller

I never actually counted these before... I didn't realize how many units I've got now .

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Guess I'll update mine, the kitchen has a fridge and a keezer, garage freezer, basement has a beer and hops fridge, a keezer and a glycol chiller that handles 2 15gal conicals and a 25gal conical. The kids now have little fridges in their rooms (effin horrible idea) but they are like the size of like a playmate cooler so I'll count the pair of them as 1, which brings me to 7. .. 8 is my favorite number (Cal Ripken Jr. Fan) so I think I need one more... hmmm.