What was your technique for getting a kegerator?

[keg2881]

Me: Check out what I just bought on craigs.
SWMBO: as long as it doesn't go in the bedroom.
Me: Seriously?


6 months later


SWMBO: Kinda wish we had a kezzer in the bedroom.
Me: Doh, I knew I should have fought harder.

 

[iparks81]

I said "hey baby, im building a kegerator". She said "ok, how many taps will it have?". I have a good wife.

I was lucky enough to be in this position as well. I just painted my kegerator a nice color to match the interior of the house and it sitts next to the couch in the living room.
I dont see why SWIMBO's have such a hard time with kegerators, if it was something they wanted it would be in the house as well, not banned to the garage or the basement.

 

[Spinal_Tap]

Mine likes to 'help'-- so I charged her with bottling. After three batches she asked if there was an easier way to do this.

You know what babe--as a matter of fact--there is...

Yep, same here. After we bought the house I got back into brewing, reminded myself why I hate, hate, hate, bottling, so had the missus help bottle, and voila.

Build thread here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/show-us-your-kegerator-29053/index299.html#post3252340

 

[shroomzofdoom]

Her friends drink and enjoy the beer too!

Start breaking her in by lying about the overall project cost. Haha

When I was looking at designs I showed her a 4 tap design... She asked.. Why not 8? Or 10? Gotta love her...

A month ago we had a beer tasting for her coworkers. She got instant water cooler cred for that.

I guess my argument is:
'But babe, this is really for the BOTH of us...'

 

[shroomzofdoom]

You could also use the quid pro quo strategy:

"I will spend $1000 on something that could be the start of a rewarding lifetime hobby...it could make us rich beyond our wildest dream...friends will line up at the door to sample our fine provisions. In exchange you get...shoes...which deliver no value other than keeping your feet warm"

 

[weirdboy]

I snuck mine is as a combined b-day/x-mas present.

 

[Agentaaron]

You mean you had an almost totally open-ended "okay", and you only added ONE tap?!

If you notice, there is room for two more taps...I wanted to give the impression that I wasn't blowing a lot of cash up front. Later, it won't be hard to justify 60.00 to almost double my selection

 

[solavirtus]

I found a cheap fridge on craigslist and suggested we could keep it in the garage, and the extra freezer space would be nice for spare food (and hops and frozen yeast...) She's more than happy with it, especially since I keep a cider/apfelwein on 1 of the 4 taps for her.

 

[JRems]

Just try to make swmbo happy, put an extra tap in for some girly fizzy drink. I did that but I also painted the kegerator her favorite color and built it out of a real cool vintage 1940's round top refrigerator. It only holds 3 kegs but looks awesome.

 

[Chuckabrewski]

Just try to make swmbo happy, put an extra tap in for some girly fizzy drink. I did that but I also painted the kegerator her favorite color and built it out of a real cool vintage 1940's round top refrigerator. It only holds 3 kegs but looks awesome.

Post a pic

 

[Islandboy85]

Well, I've done some picture showing to her of nice kegerators and keezerators...she likes the REALLY nice ones with tiled tops and all the bells and whistles. For someone who was upset about the idea of me spending money on a kegerator picket a nice color of tile blue and green glass mixed...$30 a square foot!!! Maybe ill have to sell this idea in stages. Stage one, I get it set up good enough to serve beer. Step two, fix it up pretty. Or I could just procrastinate until we buy a house and build us a bar.

 

[-TH-]

Last year's www.kegconnection.com's black friday sale was a good enough deal for me to get permission from swmbo to buy the starter kit. Then over time I built it up from there.

 

[gnef]

I bought the house and lived in it for a year before we got married and she moved in, so the kegerator was already in the kitchen when she moved in.

Then she let me build a walk-in cooler in the basement, part of the reasoning being that the kegerator would no longer be in the kitchen. The big plus of this is that now I have a dual-zone walk-in cooler for my fermentations, and it is holding 70 kegs in the cold side right now, and can hold even more, and I have 9 faucets from the coffin box right now, with the ability to expand significantly (space for 14 for the first row, and if I offset a second row, an additional 13).

 

[runningweird]

I bought the house and lived in it for a year before we got married and she moved in, so the kegerator was already in the kitchen when she moved in.

Then she let me build a walk-in cooler in the basement, part of the reasoning being that the kegerator would no longer be in the kitchen. The big plus of this is that now I have a dual-zone walk-in cooler for my fermentations, and it is holding 70 kegs in the cold side right now, and can hold even more, and I have 9 faucets from the coffin box right now, with the ability to expand significantly (space for 14 for the first row, and if I offset a second row, an additional 13).

 

[Islandboy85]

i bought the house and lived in it for a year before we got married and she moved in, so the kegerator was already in the kitchen when she moved in.

Then she let me build a walk-in cooler in the basement, part of the reasoning being that the kegerator would no longer be in the kitchen. The big plus of this is that now i have a dual-zone walk-in cooler for my fermentations, and it is holding 70 kegs in the cold side right now, and can hold even more, and i have 9 faucets from the coffin box right now, with the ability to expand significantly (space for 14 for the first row, and if i offset a second row, an additional 13).

pictures!!!!!!!

 

[gnef]

I posted about my build in a different forum, from conception to completion:

http://www.brews-bros.com/index.php/topic/32778-walk-in-cooler/

 

[2puttbird]

Like some of others, I was lucky enough to have a wife who was in favor of the idea from the beginning, and we had a great time working together on the design. And she picked a great glass tile for the top, so she sees some of her handywork in it when she looks at it, which probably doesn't hurt!

 

[bowiefan]

I got the "skeptical" look when I first mentioned it, but as soon as I suggested a Rum and Coke tap for her she was totally on board.

 

[Shawnylocks]

i just started brewing and my wife is already sick of the bottles so i said ultimately i would like a keg setup and she said well xmas is coming!!

 

[Islandboy85]

I think the idea is growing on her. I'm not making any spectacular effort to take my bottles out of the kitchen back to the dusty dirty garage. Maybe I can wear her down.

 

[Islandboy85]

Well, I bought 2 ball lock kegs, a dual gauge (hp side gauge is inop) regulator, 5 pound steel co2 bottle, and fittings for one keg for $100. A guy on Craigslist told me he'd sell me 2 pin lock kegs for $30. I'm not sure if I want to mix and match keg styles though. Plus the pin lock is fatter.

 

[runningweird]

I have mainly ball lock but have two spaces in my keg fridge for pin lock - the pin lock is the reason I just lost an entire tank of CO2. One little push and the disconnect leaks gas.

Getting rid of at least two of them soon. At 30 bucks I would pick them up - you can convert them to ball locks you know.

Glad to hear you got some gear - a good deal on the stuff from craigslist by the way. Can't wait to see your setup.

 

[Islandboy85]

I have mainly ball lock but have two spaces in my keg fridge for pin lock - the pin lock is the reason I just lost an entire tank of CO2. One little push and the disconnect leaks gas.

Getting rid of at least two of them soon. At 30 bucks I would pick them up - you can convert them to ball locks you know.

Glad to hear you got some gear - a good deal on the stuff from craigslist by the way. Can't wait to see your setup.

Cool! I just found the conversion kits for $11 at http://www.cornykeg.com/index.asp?category=24861 not too bad. That'll be $25 per keg after converting. Can't beat that. Craigslist is cool except for the ********* i was gona buy a sanke keg from as a fermenter who stood me up two days in a row, and then told me I had the wrong number when I called to see what was up.

 

[runningweird]

yeah, I just bought two sankes from a stoner college kid - blazed out of his mind and it took him 30 extra minutes to find where we were supposed to meet up.

 

[Islandboy85]

yeah, I just bought two sankes from a stoner college kid - blazed out of his mind and it took him 30 extra minutes to find where we were supposed to meet up.

Lol yeah, at least stoners are friendly. I just don't get why you'd stand someone up twice, and lie to them about the phone number that I called straight out of the email he'd sent...ignorant.

 

[Islandboy85]

I'm still thinking about how I want to do the kegerator. Freezer would hold more, but need temp controlled. Fridge could have taps coming through the door the house cats couldn't get to (big issue). The cat issue is making me contemplate just using picnic faucets instead of full blown taps.

 

[Daver77]

Problem with keeping it in the garage for me is that I have a detached garage. My garage is in the back of the house. I want easy access. I think the deal at my house is to get a good looking kegerator. I have the money to do it right now (disposable income) but she want to go away for next weekend so that screwed up my plans.

Going to have to get the stuff little by little.

 

[Islandboy85]

Problem with keeping it in the garage for me is that I have a detached garage. My garage is in the back of the house. I want easy access. I think the deal at my house is to get a good looking kegerator. I have the money to do it right now (disposable income) but she want to go away for next weekend so that screwed up my plans.

Going to have to get the stuff little by little.

Same deal in my house, but mine somehow also has the small print nothing big while we're in an apartment. But honey, the apartment is 1100 square feet...

 

[boo boo]

I gave up smoking and with the money I saved, I bought a ready made kegerator with 2 taps.
6 years later and still with smoking given up, I'd say it was a winning combo.

 

[Islandboy85]

I gave up smoking and with the money I saved, I bought a ready made kegerator with 2 taps.
6 years later and still with smoking given up, I'd say it was a winning combo.

Congratulations on being smoke free!

 

[Daver77]

Same deal in my house, but mine somehow also has the small print nothing big while we're in an apartment. But honey, the apartment is 1100 square feet...

Your apartment is the same size as my single family

 

[Islandboy85]

Your apartment is the same size as my single family

Yeah, which is why I'm arguing for room in the dining room (we eat in the living room anyway) for the kegerator. On a good note, she did say I can build a bar when we get a house.

 

[Daver77]

I actually have a kitchen nook where we eat instead of the dining room so I think the dining room is where the kegerator should go. either way wish us luck

 

[sonex]

My wife went to visit her mother for 10 days when she came home there sat the keggerator I built. The old just do it she will get over it always works for me. I built a second one last year so now I have one in the family room and another downstairs in the game room. She actually likes them now b/c everyone comes to our house instead of us always having to drive home from another persons house after a few pints.

 

[Daver77]

My wife went to visit her mother for 10 days when she came home there sat the keggerator I built. The old just do it she will get over it always works for me. I built a second one last year so now I have one in the family room and another downstairs in the game room. She actually likes them now b/c everyone comes to our house instead of us always having to drive home from another persons house after a few pints.

i like that

 

[Islandboy85]

My wife went to visit her mother for 10 days when she came home there sat the keggerator I built. The old just do it she will get over it always works for me. I built a second one last year so now I have one in the family room and another downstairs in the game room. She actually likes them now b/c everyone comes to our house instead of us always having to drive home from another persons house after a few pints.

My wife and i are coming up on our first anniversary in April. I'm starting to understand exactly what you're talking about. I like the idea of kegs for the same reason too. I'm sick of people asking me to come over and bring beer. How about no! I did the work making it. Now you come to me!!! HA.

 

[emjay]

Same deal in my house, but mine somehow also has the small print nothing big while we're in an apartment. But honey, the apartment is 1100 square feet...

Heh... I actually got approval by showing how it should actually take less space than all those bottles, which had become a fairly big annoyance and frequent topic of (small) arguments by then.

Of course, that all works on the assumption that I'll be getting rid of all those bottles when my keezer is done...

 

[Islandboy85]

Heh... I actually got approval by showing how it should actually take less space than all those bottles, which had become a fairly big annoyance and frequent topic of (small) arguments by then.

Of course, that all works on the assumption that I'll be getting rid of all those bottles when my keezer is done...

I guess I'm not the only guy with that plan.

 

[djt17]

My wife had been asking for a new refrigerator, I agreed; I got the old one. It was perfect for my kegerator.