So i decided to finally build a keezer. Between all the beer I usually drink, the cool factor, and the fact I'm getting pretty seriously into homebrew, it is time. So, I built one. It's 95% finished. The start: bought a 14.8 Ft^3 freezer from home depot. I couldn't find a damn thing on CL, so bit the bullet and bought new. Only problem is it's white. Time to paint that sucka! Used Rustoleum black appliance paint for the sides, and chalkboard paint for the top. I really should have used more cans for the sides, as it scratches pretty easily. I dunno, might just be an issue with appliance paint. You can also see I built a collar out of 2x4s. This is so I don't have to drill through the lid to use a tower. the collar is just glued on with bathtub caulk, so if I ever need to take it off, shouldn't be an issue. I bought some red oak 1x6 and stained it to match my cabinets, This is going to be glued around the collar to give it a nice pro look. Time to glue those puppies on and drill the holes! My dad and my sisters dog came to help out. With the collar finished, just had to drill holes for the taps, and tube everything up. I'm still waiting on more ball lock fittings and hose. I initially ordered 5' hoses, but they aren't long enough. I have to turn the CO2 pressure way down to 6 psi to keep from pouring foam. For the CO2, I have a 5# bottle, with a dual body regulator. this lets me serve on one reg, and force carb with the other. The serving regulator goes to a 3-way splitter. The shanks and faucets are all stainless steel Perlicks. And it's finished! Right now I only have one beer on tap, Freetail Brewery's Rye Wit (american wheet beer). My 1st batch of homebrew is in the keg right now, just have to put a little age on it before carbing it up. Second brew day is tomorrow. I'll be making a IIPA (142 IBU!!!!). I've also ordered more ball lock fittings, 2 more corny kegs, 2 more fermenters, a hefe kit and a milk stout kit. Time to get the pipeline rolling!
Thanks man. Here's the thing about the parts: It can be done a hell of alot cheaper than I did. Go on ebay and pick up one of those cheap 2 tap kits and you're straight for like 200 dollars. I didn't do that. I went with all stainless perlick shanks and taps, and bought custom lengths of food grade beer line with oetiker clamps and Perlick 525 stainless faucets. The dual reg is also twice as expensive as a regular taprite regulator. I figure, build it right, build it once. In parts i probably have 4-500. Freezer was 400ish. Paint was 50, wood was probably around 100 (screwed up on a board, cut it too short - red oak is expensive as shit) Stain cost me close to 80 (wrong color stain first go around, 30 bucks a qt, had to get 2 qts, then add clear on top of that). I bought 2 sanke D taps at 30 bucks apiece (full stainless body and tube), and 3 sets of ffl ball lock keg connectors, and another gas ball lock connector so I can force carb. So figure 500 for kegerator parts, 400 for freezer, 300 for making it paint, wood, stain, tools and fuckups. Around 1200-1300 bucks total. But it looks great and pours cold beer, so I don't give a shit about the price
you need to coat the fridge with this before painting it black. i know its a little late buy maybe you can strip off what you already did and then coat it with the adhesion promoter looks great by the way.
^^^What he said. There is no rattle-can on the market that will come close to the resilience and adhesion of baked enamel. Your project did turn out awesome though.
