Thought I'd dig this thread up! I recently bought my first keg setup with the aim of having some beer on tap at home and being able to take a keg to a mates place easily and thus settled on a 9.5L keg with a mini reg and 400g CO2 tank. My girlfriends 21st was on the long weekend and prior to that I brewed a pale ale that I wanted to have on tap during the party therefore I had to find a way to present the beer nicely. Us youngies at the moment seem to be all over anything rustic or indie looking and so I looked at a few ideas and decided I wanted to go with a wooden box using pallet wood for added rustic factor and low/no cost. Being only 22 I'm not exactly a seasoned woodworker or engineer but the construction was fairly basic and wasn't all that hard to throw together.
Heres the general box construction, its simply planks to the right height nailed together by a length at the top and bottom of the wall which are also used to hold the floor and lid:
The lid is simply more lengths not stuck together to make it flexible in terms of use and being able to open the box only partly (access to keg/co2 seperately):
Made a shitty platform out of pallet bits to hold the CO2 cylinder at the right height so that the reg and gas tap can be above the lid, just happened to be the perfect height:
There it is in the box just loose:
you can just see the box used to hold the keg in that photo, didnt get one of it by itself, its just a plastic box with handles, holds the keg and ice to keep the keg cold.
Heres the holes for the gas line and the reg and cylinder to come through:
last thing to do was add the tap holes and the handles for easy lifting, just drilled holes in the side for rope to fit through and that made the handles:
and then same size hole held the tap perfectly:
Hope you guys like it, It was easy to throw together and I'm happy with how it performs and looks,
Cheers.
