Kegerator

I've been wanting to build a kegerator for a long time, and the time has come. The project suddenly come about because we moved this summer and the fridge in the new place isn't tall enough to accommodate my 1 liter grolsch bottles, and i had great fears that they would freeze and explode as they were all out in the garage. At first i planned on just buying a fridge for the garage, but that seemed all to easy.

So i did a little research and started stalking craigslist for freezers, fridges and kegging equipment, i also sent out an email to the local homebrew club looking for anyone with extra gear they were looking to get rid of.  this is what i ended up with:

I have to thank the brew list for all the help, the folks at Lowes for providing me with good recommendations about general best practices and for helping find the tools i needed, and big shout out to Jared at Summer Sun  who answered a lot of my beer/kegging related questions. at this point i need to get another faucet and mount it in the door and then i should be done with the kegerator. In true Missoula style the virgin pour was cold smoke because i didn’t have any homebrew ready to go.

The next project we’re going to embark on is to get kegbot  up and running for the kegerator.

Here are some of the things I've learned along the way:

• Measure twice, cut/drill once
• Put the drip tray drain in after you've mounted the drip tray, then find the corner the water pools in, put the drain there.
• An angle grinder is likely the coolest power tool.

The Plans:

Google Drawing	Google SketchUp

Photos