Show us your Kegerator

[rattletrap1970]

Here is mine. It’s built from a GDM-37 cooler merchandiser. It has 4 taps for the 4 kegs I have. I converted all the lighting to RGB LED (Remote controlled), wrapped the outside in faux stainless, all controls are 12v to control 120Vac cooling and heating (I can use it as a fermenter).

 

[Jag75]

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• Jag75
• Apr 30, 2018

Keg king double tap

 

[RockyMtnGT]

 

[Heath Edwards]

 

[day_trippr]

That's a clever way to hang a drip tray

 

[Pappabrew]

 

[Beeru]

Just build a four tap kegerator. It’s my first time moving from bottling to kegging so there’s a slight learning curve but it’s up and fully functional now.

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• Beeru
• May 1, 2018

Used a black chalkboard paint on my older white deep freeze

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• Beeru
• May 1, 2018

Simple collar with a couple perlicks, a cheapo tap for carbonated water, and one for stouts.

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• Beeru
• May 1, 2018

Not quite finished...

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• Beeru
• May 1, 2018

Total nerd bar...

 

[gnor]

@Beeru, can't see your pictures via those links.

 

[Beeru]

@Beeru, can't see your pictures via those links.

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Thanks for the heads up. I could see them, but the album was set to private. Should be good now.

 

[Heath Edwards]

That's a clever way to hang a drip tray

Thanks, My buddys tend to be a bit rough housey with a few pints in them so reinforcement was required lol

 

[un1br0ue]

Mine, unfinished project and.... it died.

 

[heserb]

I built this baby about a year ago now. It is a 1950 Kelvinator.

 

[danielthemaniel]

Here's mine. I have (4) 5 gallon corny kegs and a 20lb Co2 tank with 3 taps. I've also got a converted chest freezer fermentation chamber behind it with an additional (4) 5 gallon corny kegs, inkbird controller and 2 brew belts.

 

[larbogast]

 

[un1br0ue]

I built this baby about a year ago now. It is a 1950 Kelvinator.
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Hi Heserb, i had the same idea for the tap handles.
How did you manage the fix the screwing part on the tap to the can?
And how did you fill the can so that they are solid (not empty)?
thanks

 

[heserb]

Hi Heserb, i had the same idea for the tap handles.
How did you manage the fix the screwing part on the tap to the can?
And how did you fill the can so that they are solid (not empty)?
thanks

Un1br0ue, That is a great question. These are actual tap handles from Oskar Blues Brewery. Well their distribution service anyway. A buddy of mine owns a restaurant and bar here in town and they get new tap handles regularly with distribution to his place. He didn't know what to do with some of the older ones so I said that I would take them.

If I was to make them myself I would sacrifice the beer in one can and drill out the bottom and replace with a large diameter wooden dowel or something about can size and then use spray foam to fill the gap between aluminum and wood. You would just need to cut threads into the wood or put in a threaded metal receiver.

 

[ale_man]

My rig.

 

[justareminder]

My pretty basic setup.

 

[Vruchi]

Independent temperature control. Fermentation on the right, serving on the left.

 

[javijavier]

Hello from Spain!

 

[Blazinlow86]

Here's mine. I went with a full fridge and converted the freezer section into a refrigerator also. I keep my bottles in the top and the keg's in the bottom

 

[dlink72]

Here’s mine. It started out as an experiment with 2 kegs squeezed into a small fridge. A few years later and several iterations later it is finished.

 

[Blazinlow86]

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Very nice

 

[skidmark]

Has anyone done a recent conversion of an Igloo FR464 from Wally World? Lots of old threads on this, but I want to make sure nothing has changed regarding refrigerant line routeing, etc.

(Cross-posting here because of similar content. Original post: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/any-recent-igloo-fr464-tap-tower-conversions.649435/)

 

[taibrew]

Not sure if there are any others like this in Taiwan, but it was a nice Chinese New Year project!

Hey I searched and didn't see a thread like this yet, so I figured we could all post our Kegerator pictures here.

 

[un1br0ue]

Hi everyone, I've been a member for a about 3 years now and read a lot of useful info. However, I have never posted because as a noob I just wanted to learn and didn't think I had any valuable info. Thanks to HBT though I was able to build this beauty....no tap handles(old yeast vials with grain) at the moment as beers are carbing.

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Nice work,
would you share the inside. I just just one similar to yours and I'm looking for some ideas.
Where did you put the tank / regulator and manifold?
thanks

 

[thesleepydog]

Hey I searched and didn't see a thread like this yet, so I figured we could all post our Kegerator pictures here.

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[MikeRussell]

Hey guys, what an awesome thread. I have really enjoyed paging through and figured I should add mine as well.

Pretty quick after buying my home in 2009, I decided the downstairs living area would be best suited as a bar. Not that I need a reason to do this, but there was a silly load-bearing post in the room that seemed perfect for either a walk-in closet or frame a bar around it. Bar, obviously.

That bar needed a sink and a tap-tower. Looked like this:



And then like this:



Annnd eventually like this, once I started home brewing:



I don't have great pictures of the other side - it's just a store-bought one-keg fridge with tap tower. I ran the beer lines through a foam insulated tube through a hole in the wall to the tap tower and box.

A few years later, I was engaged! One thing I wanted to do for our wedding was brew the beer - lots of beer. I created 10 or 11 recipes and we selected our favorite 6 to be the initial lineup. I brought 3 others as backups. Spoiler alert, we drank all 9. It only had 6 faucets, so I had to change kegs a few times that night. Thaaat would have to change over time:

Here's the kegorater in its original state and during the wedding:



Then eventually I added 2 more standard faucets and a nitro faucet as well as some tap handles from junk sitting around in the shop:



This is an out of date picture of the 2-tap kegorater I received as a gift from a friend. It is now used as a food and bottle fridge and to keep glasses cold on those hot summer days:



The mini fridges to the left would eventually become fermentation chambers! See the build here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/quadrachamber-four-zone-fermentation-control.583301/

Finally here's where the (very messy) brew shed looks like with kegoraters on the right:

 

[anotherbeerplease]

I love the variety here. Mine is also a little different, I think. I watched every youtube video and read every thread I could find about building one of these because I had 0 woodworking experience. But it seems that most of the videos I watched showed people throwing a solid block of wood on top of their fridge and calling it good. For efficiency of time I think that is just fine but I wanted mine to be truly insulated for better electrical efficiency and hopefully a longer lasting appliance, with a double layer of wood and a hollowed out interior filled with insulation.

I have 8 taps, yes 8 (!) taps!
1 tap is set up for high psi for Saison or wheat beers and such, 5 are standard co2 taps, and 2 are nitro taps. I absolutely love the final result and it is a great sense of pride to pour my own beer that I made from a kegerator that I also designed and made. And with 8 taps I can keep the variety high, and volume high for parties etc.

Now with so many taps my main problem is the beer will generally go stale before the kegs kick. No big deal, I just dump it. I'd rather have the variety than the volume, and simply having 8 taps doesn't mean I have to use them all!

Craigslist buy, about $100

Immediately separated top from main freezer and painted the exterior of both black:

Sizing out wood on newly painted kegerator:

Workbench setup:

First dovetail attempt. This was going to be aesthetic for the exterior, but it ended up being a structural interior dovetail, and in the end, not necessary to have dovetailed at all. good practice though even though it is obviously not so perfect.

Jointing the wood into a box shape to fit the top of the kegerator:

Basic test fit before adding the other parts to the interior for insulation:

Second part of interior added. At this point I had an exterior and an interior, and a hollow middle which would be filled with insulation:

All pieces now cut and finished, including the two side trim pieces and the front oak piece. Time to stain!

These are the two side trim pieces which I use for aesthetics. They cover the side of the kegerator and hide the ugly white insulation strip that is inherent to the fridge itself. So when you pour yourself a beer all you see is nicely stained wood around the whole visible front and sides. By now my dovetails were getting pretty decent:

Final fit, and permanently glued to the kegerator:

This is the hollow place where the insulation would go:

Insulation installed:

Not pictured, I glued some trim on top of the insulation so that I had a solid wood top, with no insulation visible or even exposed to the air at all. I then reinstalled the top of the fridge by drilling into the wood collar.

Tap holes drilled, and test fitting some sweet ass holiday lights!

More or less final version, by now I have tap handles on everything:

Interior look:

 

[HornyGoatStout]

Here’s mine! Cooled by a Coolbot and AC. It has a few more taps on it now.

 

[gnor]

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Here’s mine! Cooled by a Coolbot and AC. It has a few more taps on it now.

Do you have any bugs problem?

 

[HornyGoatStout]

Do you have any bugs problem?

In the drip tray if I don’t rinse it out. Otherwise I keep the taps clean and capped. Keeps the nasties away.

 

[Throttle79]

 

[ZehBiene]

 

[stone1ipa]

Eventually upgraded to Perlick faucets and Taprite Dual Regulator. Always have guest beer on the left and homebrew de jour on the left.

 

[AngieBomb]

 

[brewswithshoes]

i got tired of walking to the garage to pour a beer. Brought it into the house while keeping the keezer in the garage. Bought a blower from granger, and couldn't be happier with the end results. Four taps into the house while other kegs can be conditioning.

 

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

 

[Ghlenz]

This is the Keggerator and the Home Bar I built a couple of years ago.

 

[SEndorf]

Good gawd... After looking at many of the pictures in this thread, I'm wondering if expert woodworking is a prerequisite for home brewing. Those are beautiful.
I have a simple collar on a freezer. That's it. May have to re-think the next one.