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Wanting to Start kegging
So I have learned that my ability to wait for my beers are thinner then i thought. But I want to invest in a keg system, so I can force carb my beers for faster drinking. When talking with my local brew supply shop he told me he can get me hooked up with the 5gallon keg, and the stuff to start off with. How ever I found out that I need to look into a fridge for the keg. I am having a bit of a problem finding a cheep mini fridge that would work out for me. Homedepot has a nice kegerator with included C02 bottle but im not ready to drop the $500.
I am looking for Ideas on a good size mini fridge or something small. Also trying to find out what others have setup that might work for me for a kegerator.
I'd check craigslist for a cheap fridge. As far as mini fridges go, if you live near a college you can usually score one there when classes get out. You'd have to make sure it is big enough to fit the corny keg and the connections and all in it.
funny thing about Mini fridges, i've never seen one for free, or even cheap. It seems the bigger the fridge is, the cheaper you can get it for. Probably because it's in the way.
The one thing I know about mini fridges though is that the older they are the better. The older ones have the compressor on the outside, and the newer ones have the compressor on the inside, sucking up all the room.
Your best bet would be to look into getting a chest freezer. They are cheaper than you think, you can find alot of them on Craigslist, and you can also get them brand new at Wally mart for a little more than a hundred bucks. They take up about as much room as a mini fridge, but you can do so much more with them.
+1 re: bruguru
I was going to use a mini, & had to settle for half of a medium size fridge. Good thing, too. I started with 2 kegs, & within a year had expanded to 4. Almost no extra cost to add faucets.
Also, if you keep checking craigslist, you can find lots of kegerators set up for a Bud/Miller/Coors keg. Then all you have to do is add faucets & change the fittings.
I bought one w/ tank, regulator, & 1 faucet for $50, and gave the fridge away.
Good luck.
Now, I went all out cheap. I ended up purchasing an small chest freezer off Craigslist, for about thirty bucks. Put an insulated wood collar on it, and feed one CO2 hose through the collar. Eventually, I will spend the money on some faucets. But right now, I can fit four kegs in the chest freezer, with my CO2 outside, and I use picnic taps that stay inside of the freezer. I also rigged up an old dead refrigerator's temperature controller to run the freezer, so that I didn't have to mess with the freezer controller or buy a Love controller. My costs were the chest freezer, the CO2 bottle, and the kegs, of which I now have nine. Everything else, including the regulator, and most of the connections, I salvaged from an old pop machine that was getting thrown away. It's a bit ghetto, but works really nicely for me.
ID, that's great.
I made a jockey box with 5 taps using a discarded Coke cold plate, an old cooler, and picnic faucets, probably had less than $50 in the whole thing. Used it twice so far.
I love frugal brewing.
Maybe we should start a "Frugal Brewing" thread & share ways to get more brew for you buck.
Sorry, I meant Crabnut.
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