Show us your Kegerator

[nostalgia]

Real nice Axes! As a woodturner myself, I can appreciate the turned handles.

I'm not sure if I ever posted my finished project in this thread, so here it is. I picked up this Beverage-Air cooler from a restaurant surplus place without a tower. I had a tower custom fabricated by ACU Metal Fab and added a Love controller in place of the stock analog thermostat.

All the handles were turned or forged by me. I'll let you figure out which is which

I've got 9, 5-gallon Corny kegs in there now and there's room for at least 2 more. Enjoy!

-Joe

 

[Ricand]

I thought I'd show off my current setup.
2 5-gal cornies + 1 3-gal corny in a 5CF Keezer
hand-turned pulls, and a digital readout of number of pints left on each keg on the front.
I've got a nitro/stout tap ready to install, and am planning to go up to a larger freezer soon too, but if I add more taps, I'll need to rework the display completely too, so that is a rather large project. I've been planning on building a cabinet facade to hide the white freezer, but have been holding off until I get the new freezer.

How does the digital readout sense the number of pints left? Do you have a thread on HBT about it?

 

[Coff]

Just finished my keezer build, I got a free freezer from a friend (7.2 cu ftMagic Chef), which i sanded down and painted with chalkboard paint. I luckily found some old school perlicks on ebay for $10 a piece, got 4 of them in case i expand, and a kit from kegconnection. I'll probably add on to my regulator to make it a dual body so I can carb a keg and serve 2 at the same time.

Like my drip tray?

Inside View

 

[MI_Craig]

7 cu ft Whirlpool.

 

[bigdfromaz]

Just finished my keezer build, I got a free freezer from a friend (7.2 cu ftMagic Chef), which i sanded down and painted with chalkboard paint. I luckily found some old school perlicks on ebay for $10 a piece, got 4 of them in case i expand, and a kit from kegconnection. I'll probably add on to my regulator to make it a dual body so I can carb a keg and serve 2 at the same time.

Like my drip tray?

Inside View

I like the sock "drip tray"

 

[AxesOfEvil]

How does the digital readout sense the number of pints left? Do you have a thread on HBT about it?

I'll have to make a thread about it sometime. Basically, I pulled the load-cells out of digital bathroom scales, hooked up some electronics to interface with a microcontroller, and send the output to the lcd screen. In effect it is a glorified digital scale, but with the output calibrated in pints rather than pounds (of course, 'a pint's a pound the world around' so assuming you could adjust for the empty-keg weight, you could save the hassle and just look at the readout of a standard bathroom scale.

Right now I have a single display for all 3 kegs, but if I expand my setup, I'm thinking of having each unit be self-contained so it is easy to make it work for as many/few taps as you have. Then I could provide instructions or kits. The whole thing isn't very expensive to build, with the scales being most of the total cost. If I could find inexpensive load-cells, it would probably be possible to build them at ~$10 per tap.

 

[Chuginator]

Gotta say, Axes - that's pretty cool. It strokes my nerd side!

 

[Argus79]

Here's mine!

 

[cruckin78]

The new one since the 39 GE I had died...

 

[jkatz419]

I just finished mine today! The Phlying Eagle Brewery Bar is now open for business! On tap: Bigfoot IPA. Comming up next Kolsch and Redwood Forest.

 

[jkatz419]

ugh, I thought pics showed up after you hit 25 posts? EDIT: never mind, was copying the wrong link from flickr

 

[sgraham602]

just finished this today!

 

[jkatz419]

nice, what kind of wood/stain is the collar?

 

[Summy]

Here's mine:

 

[sgraham602]

nice, what kind of wood/stain is the collar?

it is pine (actually used the 10 inch pine board meant for stair steps..it has a nice rounded edge) stained with minwax Ipswitch Pine

 

[toxick]

Finally finished my kegerator. Now I just need to fill a couple more kegs to get all four taps flowing...

 

[Changeduser123]

Finally finished my kegerator. Now I just need to fill a couple more kegs to get all four taps flowing...

I hope you do not ferment beer directly in the bathtub

Nice fridge!

 

[Chuginator]

That's pretty neat! Love the chalkboards.

Bathtub Artois, huh? LOL!

 

[Jaysus]

those small black balls are my favorite tap handles

 

[Rolly]

those small black balls are my favorite tap handles

^Please don't make me say it..

 

[Hoppopotomus]

Here is my keezer placed in it's final resting spot in my basement bar. The bar is not 100% complete, but almost there. Still need drop ceiling & accent lighting installed, log bar stools refinished, and the slate tile cleaned and sealed. I'm making one final push over the next few weeks to knock this thing out. Here's what I have so far. After drop ceiling, I just need carpet installation throughout the rest of the basement and she's finally done! Only took me 3 years to finish the basement so far, but I'm finishing just under 2000 sq. ft. by myself and these damn home brewing projects, like the keezer build, keep slowing me down. I promised my wife that the basement would be 100% complete before I start building my single tier, 3 vessel, all grain rig, but who the hell know at this point.

 

[aerialmedical]

Rock on, hoppo....looks like a great kick-it! Even got the popcorn machine ready to get a-poppin!

 

[ExHempKnight]

I just completed my keezer. I took inspiration from here, though I came up with a different means of attaching the drip tray.

The keezer:

For the drip tray mount, I bought 2 15" hanging plant hooks from Lowe's. I bent them slightly, both to make the tray sit level, and to center it under the faucets. See here:

 

[Jaysus]

great idea, and it looks nice too

 

[kgoodwi2]

What are you using for your temperature read out?

 

[starrfish]

Here is my keezer placed in it's final resting spot in my basement bar. The bar is not 100% complete, but almost there. Still need drop ceiling & accent lighting installed, log bar stools refinished, and the slate tile cleaned and sealed. I'm making one final push over the next few weeks to knock this thing out. Here's what I have so far. After drop ceiling, I just need carpet installation throughout the rest of the basement and she's finally done! Only took me 3 years to finish the basement so far, but I'm finishing just under 2000 sq. ft. by myself and these damn home brewing projects, like the keezer build, keep slowing me down. I promised my wife that the basement would be 100% complete before I start building my single tier, 3 vessel, all grain rig, but who the hell know at this point.

swweeet!

may finally get you some of my redneck retired yankee card brewing shots this weekend!!! doing 2 all grains possibly in 1 day! recruited a helper
may be possible 2 in a day! if nt 2 in a weekend! sat & sun hefe (90 min mash) and APA (60 min mash)

 

[starrfish]

btw... love the stainless vent on the front! matches bar sink and ties that bit of industrial to sink

now you lust need a steel front for the white fridge! lol

 

[dstauth]

Finished until I can get more taps and a drip tray

 

[Chuginator]

Nice!

 

[ExHempKnight]

What are you using for your temperature read out?

A Love temp controller. I mounted it in the plastic grate that covers the compressor on the bottom left side. I wanted it accessible, but more or less hidden. I may eventually apply some window tint to make it less bright, as it casts a red glow on the wall.