If you’re a fan of tap beer, there’s no reason to stop enjoying it just because you don’t live near a bar or brewery. You can easily build your own keezer and have all the draft beer you want right at home. A keezer is simply a refrigerator that has been modified to hold kegs …
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A small fan could be a solution to keeping your keezer cool while you’re not using it. We’ve found that the best way to keep a kegerator or a keezer cool is by circulating the air with a small, inexpensive CPU fan. These fans are usually less than $25 and can often run on batteries …
When I got my first kegerator and eventually built a keezer, a faucet was just a faucet to me. I found a nice-looking set of 4 online and purchased them. They have served me well for the past few years. Then one afternoon I stopped by a friend’s house to check out his basement bar …
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Beer faucets, also known as beer taps, are how we pour beer from the keg. Whether in a keezer or a commercial draft system, beer faucets are a fundamental part of the cold beverage dispensing process. Faucets come in a few different varieties, but within each of those categories, there are more variables to consider. …
When it comes to keeping your keezer regulating a consistent temperature where you put the temperature probe makes a huge difference. You can have a space that is constantly too warm or too cold because of where the probe is located. Placing the probe in the right spot is very important to have a consistent …
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When I first bought my chest freezer to convert to a keezer, the biggest and most overwhelming problem I had was the temperature control. I was recommended the stc1000 and it was a no-brainer because it only cost $20 dollars online, however all you have to do is, re-wire the chest freezer. Here is the …
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Having open taps is great, but let’s say there is a reason you may want to prevent someone from helping themselves to your tasty beer while you are not around, what do you do? You might be wondering if you can lock your beer taps? Yes, you can lock your tap beer using a lock …
So the keezer is coming together nicely. There’s still some room to finish up, but I’m pretty happy with it thus far. One thing you may not have thought about until you poured your first beer and noticed some drips from the faucet is a drip tray! A drip tray is necessary to avoid a …
A keezer is a custom build, you can keep it simple or you can get very creative with the design. No matter which chest freezer you use and how the keezer design turns out, you are going to need the right pieces of equipment in order for it to function like a kegerator. Let’s assume …
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Perlick faucets are better because they feature a revolutionary ball and floating O-ring design that eliminates the need for a valve shaft. Because of the forward sealing design the faucet never sticks and mold and bacteria are less likely to grow inside. Have you ever gone to pour a beer after a week, and the …
This article is about drilling into the wood collar of the keezer build, not drilling into the chest freezer. Building a keezer (aka a kegerator) is fairly easy to do. A few cutes of wood, come clue to seal it to the chest freezer and that’s pretty much it. The collar is basically the only …
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So you have a chest freezer lying around and you aren’t using it for keeping things frozen anymore. Or maybe you just don’t have that many things to keep frozen. Now it’s just a big box taking up space in the basement or garage. The thing most people don’t know is, you can turn that …
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I finally have a 4 beer tap set up, but one thing that I really need is a beer drip tray for keezer. My beer is coming off a little foamy sometimes and I need the tray to catch it. UPDATE! I have found a better and cheaper way to mount a drip tray without …
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The first time I thought about kegging beer, I had no idea how much more it takes to make that happen. I figured I could put the beer in the keg and keep it outside in the winter. I brought up this idea to the guys are the brew supply store in town. They didn’t …
Upgrading to kegged beer is one of the most satisfying investments I made. Nothing beats grabbing a pint and pouring a nice cold beer into it from the comfort of your home. But before that happened I had many questions about what would be the best for me. That led me to discover keezers. That …
