Kegging Setups

[Daniel.lear]

All,

As of yesterday afternoon my first keg setup is now operational.

I have enough room in the fridge for 2 kegs in front of the hump enabling me to still have a shelf for bottled beer and soft drinks. Without the shelf, it will fit 4 kegs with bucket loads of room to spare. i have left enough room in the fridge door for 2 more taps for when more fun buttons become availible Just have to get myself a drip tray.......

Cheers Leary

 

[cliffo]

All,

As of yesterday afternoon my first keg setup is now operational.

I have enough room in the fridge for 2 kegs in front of the hump enabling me to still have a shelf for bottled beer and soft drinks. Without the shelf, it will fit 4 kegs with bucket loads of room to spare. i have left enough room in the fridge door for 2 more taps for when more fun buttons become availible Just have to get myself a drip tray.......

Cheers Leary

Looking good - I'll keep telling myself those Crownies are actually full of home brew...hehehe...think I can make out some identification system on the cap

What size CO2 bottle is that? looks like a monster.

cliffo

 

[hairofthedog]

maybe the crownies are for visitors so he dosent waste his homebrew or to clean his bqq or for his wife

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

Heres MK2.

 

[Bobby]

how have you secured the font to the top of the freezer?

Love the beer engine!!

 

[InCider]

Looks Great Vlad - very tidy.

Bobby - it looks like Vlad has used a couple in nice shiny bolts. And it won't be coming undone accidentally!

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

how have you secured the font to the top of the freezer?

Love the beer engine!!

Bobby, the font is bolted through the fonts own mounting bolt to a piece of chequerplate which in turn is bolted through the timber top and freezer lid.

 

[mika]

I'm not a fan of the gas bottle and reg in the fridge, takes up room and what is all that moisture doing to your reg ?
I drilled a hole thru the compressor 'hump', certainly no cooling lines running thru there. A bit of silicone round the hole or grommet to seal on the line and you're laughing.

Vlad- nice setup. Interesting gas/beer line you're using ? You planning to do something flash around the freezer vents ?

 

[InCider]

I'm not a fan of the gas bottle and reg in the fridge, takes up room and what is all that moisture doing to your reg ?
I drilled a hole thru the compressor 'hump', certainly no cooling lines running thru there. A bit of silicone round the hole or grommet to seal on the line and you're laughing.

Vlad- nice setup. Interesting gas/beer line you're using ? You planning to do something flash around the freezer vents ?

Great idea Mika. I might have to move the fridge around a bit and get the old drill onto it. I am not real keen on the reg in the fridge either.

Cheers,

Sean

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

Mika, just looking for a neat mesh vent to screw over it.

 

[skb]

Ok love the pictures but am surprised so many people are using chest freezers and not fridges, how to you keep the temp from getting too cold. Do you put a thermostat on which turns power on and off or some other simple trick ?

 

[Bobby]

see the mashmaster link at the top of the page - fridgemate.

 

[skb]

So using the thermostats and turning the freezer on an off with these ?

 

[NRB]

Yes. A "temperature control" device fitted to the freezer. The two main benefits of using a chest freezer over a fridge - 1. They're insulated better; 2. They usually allow a greater number of kegs to be stored.

If you do a search of the forums, you'll find a wealth of knowledge about such things.

Welcome aboard AHB! :beer:

 

[Kingy]

All,

As of yesterday afternoon my first keg setup is now operational.

I have enough room in the fridge for 2 kegs in front of the hump enabling me to still have a shelf for bottled beer and soft drinks. Without the shelf, it will fit 4 kegs with bucket loads of room to spare. i have left enough room in the fridge door for 2 more taps for when more fun buttons become availible Just have to get myself a drip tray.......

Cheers Leary

looks the goods mate, you could also make a shelf with legs on one side (to the front of the fridge) and the other end of the shelf sitting on the compresser hump. That way you can fit 4 kegs in there on the home made shelf and stack beers under the shelf in front of the compresser hump. Thats what i did after i had the same setup as yours for a few months.
But then youll have to get another tap. Bcoz youll need 2 taps with 4 kegs lol :lol:

 

[Daniel.lear]

I'm not a fan of the gas bottle and reg in the fridge, takes up room and what is all that moisture doing to your reg ?
I drilled a hole thru the compressor 'hump', certainly no cooling lines running thru there. A bit of silicone round the hole or grommet to seal on the line and you're laughing.

Vlad- nice setup. Interesting gas/beer line you're using ? You planning to do something flash around the freezer vents ?

Mika,

Im not That big a fan of the bottle and reg in the fridge either. it was just convienient at the time. Today im going to route the gas line and temb probe through the back of the frigde using a cable gland, but i havent quite decided where. Thoughts anyone??


Cliffo

The crownies are homebrew (APA) but at the time of the photo there was also a bottle of West End and Millers Chill left over from some friends, Not mine though. h34r:

Cheers

 

[cliffo]

Mika,

Im not That big a fan of the bottle and reg in the fridge either. it was just convienient at the time. Today im going to route the gas line and temb probe through the back of the frigde using a cable gland, but i havent quite decided where. Thoughts anyone??
Cliffo

The crownies are homebrew (APA) but at the time of the photo there was also a bottle of West End and Millers Chill left over from some friends, Not mine though. h34r:

Cheers

You could try going through the hump over the compressor - shouldn't be any refrigerant lines there, of course you still need to be carefull.

Glad you have clarified the contents of your fridge..hehehe

cliffo

 

[beerbarron]

Just set up my new 6 keg fridge . I recommend this upside down style fridge for anyone that wants 6 kegs on tap. Plenty of room and a good tap height for pouring; ie if you can reach the taps you are old enough to have a beer . Cant wait to fill her up.

 

[winkle]

Here is a pic of my very modest first steps in kegging. I like kegs as I am told they probably won't explode!

The fridge in the pic is the outside beer fridge and as you can see it won't take two kegs and the C02, and SWAMBO has renegged on her earlier agreement to allow me to drill a hole in the 3 year old fridge. She claims that I confused her, then tricked her into agreeing. She's right though - heavily pregnant - she was easy to con. Now she has caught on! D'oh! :blink:

I have a another fridge I ferment in, that is down in my Manshed, so no more options for multi kegs. So it looks like for the time being it's one beer at a time.

HUGE thanks to Screwtop for the phone calls and questions and support while I got this all going. Very much appreciated. :icon_chickcheers:

InCider.

Just leave the gas outside mate, gas when required. 2 kegs are better than 1 anyday.

 

[randyrob]

Heres MK2.
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is that acutally inside the house mate? i didnt think the missus would allow it!
my one is trying to get mine outside of the house and into the shed by dangling
carrots infront of me "we can put an aircon in the shed to make it cool for you that way
u can put your keg frige in there as well" pfft it can stay in the dining room next to the
dinner table that way i dont have to get up.

on a side note there is a beer in that fandangled chest freezer of yours dated november and its now january


Rob.

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

is that acutally inside the house mate? i didnt think the missus would allow it!
my one is trying to get mine outside of the house and into the shed by dangling
carrots infront of me "we can put an aircon in the shed to make it cool for you that way
u can put your keg frige in there as well" pfft it can stay in the dining room next to the
dinner table that way i dont have to get up.

on a side note there is a beer in that fandangled chest freezer of yours dated november and its now january
Rob.

Yes its inside the hoose, still don't know how I managed to pull that one off.
The November keg is an English pale ale, I am only a moderate drinker you know!

 

[eric8]

Heres MK2.
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Vlad that is a sweet looking setup. One of the best looking chestie's I have seen. How did you do the wood around the sides? Thats similar to what I want to do with mine. I have a double cobra font to add to mine, but have to wait to tell swmbo. " I bought it with my xmas bonus' " :lol:
eric

 

[Daniel.lear]

All

I've re-routed the gas line from the outside, using a cable gland. drilled a 16mm hole in the plastic with a spade bit and a 25mm hole in the back with a holesaw. The hole in the back is a bit messy atm but will fix that when i go back to work and "aquire" some teflon edge strip.

End result is much neater, and when more fun tickets become availible, i'll mount a gas manifold on the inside as well.

Also, i know many of you use pc fans in chest freezers, but do many of you use a fan on the inside of your upright fridges?? and do you think it has any benefit??

Cheers

Leary

 

[SJW]

Ok love the pictures but am surprised so many people are using chest freezers and not fridges, how to you keep the temp from getting too cold. Do you put a thermostat on which turns power on and off or some other simple trick ?

Until I get another Fridgemate I take the Fridgemate out of the chest freeze and use it in the fermentation fridge and just put the freezer on a timer. It comes on for 20mins every hour to hour and a half and keeps eveythng just right.
I have done a lot of testing and found that with the smaller freezer ie a 4 keger the computer fan does no make much diff. Just makes the freezer cycle quicker.

Steve

 

[Doogiechap]

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Also, i know many of you use pc fans in chest freezers, but do many of you use a fan on the inside of your upright fridges?? and do you think it has any benefit??

Cheers

Leary

It made a huge difference for me in addressing the temp difference between the top and bottom of my fridge, which in turn reduced the amount of bubbles in my beer lines significantly. Two thumbs up for me. :icon_cheers: .
Cheers
Doug

 

[cliffo]

It made a huge difference for me in addressing the temp difference between the top and bottom of my fridge, which in turn reduced the amount of bubbles in my beer lines significantly. Two thumbs up for me. :icon_cheers: .
Cheers
Doug

+1 for using a PC fan in a fridge, helps maintain a more even temp throughout

 

[domfergo]

Gday all

Here is some pics of my bar (Bootleggers Inn) and keggerator.

For those interested in the labels I have painted on the fridge. i got some labels transferred on to transparents and used a overhead projector to draw the outlines on.

Received my order from Ross this week and finally got some time to install my new celli and lines.

Now the front end is where I want it have to start getting the back end of the brewery up to speed!!!

Cheers

Mass

 

[TidalPete]

Here is a pic of my very modest first steps in kegging. I like kegs as I am told they probably won't explode!

The fridge in the pic is the outside beer fridge and as you can see it won't take two kegs and the C02, and SWAMBO has renegged on her earlier agreement to allow me to drill a hole in the 3 year old fridge. She claims that I confused her, then tricked her into agreeing. She's right though - heavily pregnant - she was easy to con. Now she has caught on! D'oh! :blink:

Just caught up on this thread Incider. You reckon you come from 'Mansborough' -- 'Manshed'? :lol:
Just drill the hole & damn the consequences. She can hardly divorce you for drilling a hole?
Just do it! WITBH is running your place?
With the extinguisher on the outside you will probably get two kegs in. Just do it!

TP :beer:

 

[InCider]

Just caught up on this thread Incider. You reckon you come from 'Mansborough' -- 'Manshed'? :lol:
Just drill the hole & damn the consequences. She can hardly divorce you for drilling a hole?
Just do it! WITBH is running your place?
With the extinguisher on the outside you will probably get two kegs in. Just do it!

TP :beer:

Alright Pete!

I took Winkles advice to put two kegs in and gas when necessary (read all the recent posts) - but when you see the fridge up close, it is really small - so I will just get a new fridge to take 3+ kegs. And there is SFA room over the motor housing to put anything.

Down in my MANSHED I have one more fridge, and will mod that for winter, but at the moment it's used for fermenting.

And as for Just Do It you only just started kegging too didn't you? :lol:

InCider.

 

[TidalPete]

And as for Just Do It you only just started kegging too didn't you?
InCider.

Around 12 months now (I think??). Just do it & damn the consequences. This is not about kegging but controlling your own destiny & be damned to political correctness.


Are we turning into a nation of big girls??? So afraid of the missus??

TP :beer: