Show us your Kegerator

Baja_Brewer · Nov 7, 2015

gnef said:
Hmmmmmmmm, that is an interesting option. I need to find a buffer attachment for my angle grinder first though!

day_trippr said:
That's just a brilliant idea!

Cheers! (wish I'd thought of that! )

Wish I was that snappy at work :tank:

All I could think was "Unclamp and rotate 14 taps 3x each to polish - nope nope nope."

ABNJM58 · Nov 11, 2015

Morning Gents, new here to the site and have had a pleasure looking at all the beautiful work done by all of you. Decided to post a few shots of my conversion I completed early this summer. Thanks for taking a look and keep the kegs flowing!

Finlandbrews · Nov 13, 2015

applescrap said:
Live anywhere near colorado god i wish i was your neighbor! Awesome

What the ****, this is so beautiful! Congrats For the nice set up, maybe I have that in two or three years...

erick0619 · Nov 13, 2015

Second pour of mega black house modern times

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erick0619 · Nov 13, 2015

^^^^Wrong thread... can you tell ive been drinking?

day_trippr · Nov 13, 2015

Well, other than the actual drinking part, no, not at all.

You're fine...

Cheers!

Kirkmankustoms · Nov 17, 2015

Still new to all of this, but thanks to all the help in forums, I got my kegorator together.

Jsamp · Nov 23, 2015

Still a wip....

christyle · Nov 23, 2015

My setup:

Fermentation/cellaring chest freezer, converted top/bottom kegerator and my buddy's custom tap handles he made for me.

rupert130 · Nov 23, 2015

My small, party portable keezer!

Cheesy_Goodness · Nov 23, 2015

Might be just me, but I can't see those attachments

30Bones · Nov 23, 2015

Added a 6 faucet drip tray/back splash combo a friend gave me. Nice to have a drain now and room for another faucet down the road, maybe a nitro???

christyle · Nov 23, 2015

:rockin:

to the busted knuckle coozies!

30Bones · Nov 23, 2015

Have had those for a lot of years, don't use them much anymore, but they are nice pieces

ed007 · Nov 25, 2015

This is a GE 7 cubic ft freezer conversion. Black chalkboard paint, pine 1x8 collar with stone textured paint, 4 Perlick 630 all SS faucets, Taprite regulator with 4-way manifold and 4 Corney kegs. My first beer was Dunkelweizen, shown on tap, and it came out excellent. Temperature control is external with a custom made box with Eliwell 915 controller and high current relays. I am an electrical engineer so the skills came handy in building control boxes for keezer and fermentor. Collar is hinged to the mainfreezer body for easy keg loading and the lid is hinged to the collar with an extra set of identical freezer hinges. The keezer turned out decent considering that this is my first build.

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tofuguy · Nov 26, 2015

2 ball lock keg system.

Perlicks and all stainless components. Went with the dual gauge regulator since I love hefeweizens and wanted to have different carb profiles for each beer.

Went with a tile collar since I had extra tile from a kitchen backsplash diy.

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andrewf1985 · Nov 28, 2015

Finally in a functional state. Both kegs filled and carbonating. Being patient with these as theyre my christmas beers. Got a few small updates i want to do to make the kegerator perfect but its running. Really cant for the first pour. Cheers to all you who gave me the inspiration for it. Next project is a keezer but not yet.

Btaz · Nov 28, 2015

After years of watching this thread for inspiration, I finally built my kegerator. My requirements are it had to look nice enough for the basement, have an ice maker, and fit 4 kegs with at least 2 taps. This does it and there is space to add 2 more taps in the near future. Except for the faucets, I picked up at the equipment on craigslist over the late 1.5 years. Thanks everyone!

Quick update: added a few photos of the drip tray. I got to excited and posted the other photos before I was done

Btaz · Nov 30, 2015

DisturbdChemist said:
I used a bunch of rare earth magnets from amazon. I got the tray cheap also from there. I over killed it but it holds a full beer without budging

Still have a link for those magents? I'm looking to do about the same as you did for the drip tray

DisturbdChemist · Nov 30, 2015

Btaz said:
Still have a link for those magents? I'm looking to do about the same as you did for the drip tray

I just ordered them from amazon. Search magnets. I got the Neodymium Magnets ones.

Rivenin · Nov 30, 2015

gnef said:
Our second child is due in January, and I know once the boy comes, my time to brew and do brew related tasks will be severely limited, so I am taking every open Saturday and claiming it for double brew days so that I can stockpile enough for a year or two and be ok.

Exactly my situation...
depending on how old your first is, it's not too bad.
I started brewing pretty much again about 2-3 weeks ago, my 2nd is about 4 months old now. My son (first born) comes in and helps sometimes, but usually sits in his high chair and smells hops and plays with his cars while i'm doing some of the tasks.

i have the ease of electric brewing though, i can set it and forget it while i'm helping the wife out with the kids.

although if i had an autosparge from blichmann that would help a ton... might look into that soon

HiImBrian · Dec 1, 2015

I'm curious for all of the vintage stand up refrigerator people, how many kegs are you able to fit in there? I'd like to trade in my chest freezer and refinish an old fridge, but would really like to fit 4 kegs if at all possible.

gnef · Dec 1, 2015

Rivenin said:
Exactly my situation...
depending on how old your first is, it's not too bad.
I started brewing pretty much again about 2-3 weeks ago, my 2nd is about 4 months old now. My son (first born) comes in and helps sometimes, but usually sits in his high chair and smells hops and plays with his cars while i'm doing some of the tasks.

i have the ease of electric brewing though, i can set it and forget it while i'm helping the wife out with the kids.

although if i had an autosparge from blichmann that would help a ton... might look into that soon

My daughter is 4 years old, and she does like to come down throughout the brew day to sit and help with small tasks, as well as ride her tricycle and bicycle in the garage.

I wish I were electric, that would definitely make things easier for me, I just can't justify the cost right now.

I have so much beer though, I am really not worried about it at all. I have all 14 taps flowing with backups, and I still have 15 gallons in the fermentors. Even if I couldn't brew starting now, I would still have enough on hand for at least a few years, most likely, though I would be breaking into the high alcohol stuff at that point (aged RIS's, barleywines, lots of meads, etc.)

chessking · Dec 2, 2015

HiImBrian said:
I'm curious for all of the vintage stand up refrigerator people, how many kegs are you able to fit in there? I'd like to trade in my chest freezer and refinish an old fridge, but would really like to fit 4 kegs if at all possible.

A standard fridge with a freezer compartment will usually hold four to five kegs. A side by side modified to turn the freezer into another refrigerated compartment can yield 8 to 10, possably even 12 kegs. I got 8 in mine with extra space for bottles. The fridge side could hold up to eight I suppose if stacked properly, however that would be a tight fit.

tr3mblay · Dec 2, 2015

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30Bones · Dec 3, 2015

chessking said:
A standard fridge with a freezer compartment will usually hold four to five kegs. A side by side modified to turn the freezer into another refrigerated compartment can yield 8 to 10, possably even 12 kegs. I got 8 in mine with extra space for bottles. The fridge side could hold up to eight I suppose if stacked properly, however that would be a tight fit.

How does the temp controller work between the freezer and fridge or did you have to do some wiring mods to make it cool both spaces equally?

Uprights are always available for cheap/free and I could then use my current chest keezer as my ferm chamber and have them all in the basement. My current ferm chamber is a 1950's chest freezer (read HEAVY) and there is no way that is getting moved to the basement.

Mabus · Dec 3, 2015

HiImBrian said:
I'm curious for all of the vintage stand up refrigerator people, how many kegs are you able to fit in there? I'd like to trade in my chest freezer and refinish an old fridge, but would really like to fit 4 kegs if at all possible.

Hi. I have three pin-locks plus a 10 lb CO2 tank. If I relocated the tank outside, I'm sure I could fit four. Ball lock kegs are a little taller and I'm not sure they would fit height-wise without removing the sliding tray and bumping into the freezer. The fridge is about 56" tall and 24 inches wide. Below is an outside pic and and before and after inside pics showing the fitment.

SHbrewing · Dec 5, 2015

rupert130 said:
My small, party portable keezer!
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Nice simple build!

chessking · Dec 5, 2015

30Bones said:
How does the temp controller work between the freezer and fridge or did you have to do some wiring mods to make it cool both spaces equally?

I use two stc 1000 controlers. One with the temp probe on the fridge side, and with the compressor connected to the cooling relay. The other with the temp probe on the freezer side, with the heating relay hooked up to a pair of fans installed in the partition, facing opposite directions.That way if the freezer side gets too cold, the fans kick in, distributing the cold air evenly. When the fridge side gets too warm, the compressor kicks in, cooling the freezer side and then activating the fans. Keeping the air circulating prevents prevents stratification. Also the fans run regardless of whether the compressor is running or not.
Angle iron on the freezer side supports the kegs easily and still allow easy movement and attachment of air lines.
I wanted a unit that held as many kegs as possible using the least amount of floor space. Top/ bottom freezer units have a superfluous freezer compartment that i didn't need. The side by side was the best solution for what I needed.
If you go this route, be sure to measure, as not all side by sides are the same. Some have a larger freezer area, which restricts the fridge area width.