After Christmas I anticipate having all the parts needed to make a Keezer for my better half.  She is the beer meister, chemist, brewer, not me so I am not the beer expert.  However, I have been reading up on how to keg beer because all these bottles are madness.  Plus I personally don't drink a lot of beer but a small draught now and then has its appeal.  The freezer I have for this will easily hold 3 corny kegs, the CO2 bottle and all the hoses without having to build a collar or raise the lid up.  I plan to stick a 3 tap tower on top and maybe put the freezer on wheels.

Simple project to start, maybe paint it first, not building a fancy bar this time around.  I just want to get her to the next level with kegs.

I bought a pair of used kegs from here:
Corny Kegs



Any free advice

Your woman brews beer??  Did you post here to brag?

Bottles are a pain at times, but it helps regulate my beer consumption.  Thought about getting into kegging for a while now, but think it'll be way too easy to drink too much.

For me the kegs will be nice because I can have a small beer when I feel like it.  From a gear whore perspective, I like the whole concept.  She made a batch or two of beer she didn't like but some of my uncouth, uncultured buddies liked it so I supplied two deer camps with "upscale" beer just to get the damn bottles emptied out.  THEN I found another 12 pack of large bottles of the crap the other day, I dumped it so she could use the bottles this weekend.  She won't even give beer away to friends if she thinks it sucks.  Luckily I have friends who have had her good beers but have low enough standards to drink the swill and still see her as being cool!  I keep bitching that she should stick to the stuff she is good at, one of which I like, but true brewers seem drawn to experiment.


Regardless, this bottle shit is a lot of work, takes up space and I am over it.

I probably should brag about her more often, but I am not the best cheerleader.  If you want one like her, just go find a "Hippie" and stick a gun in her hands.  I found out a long time ago most Hippies are 54% Libertarian and the fastest to unlock that side of them is a Day at the range with an Ass load of firepower and gun lovin' friends.  You just learn to like color schemes that match grateful dead stuff.

Built a kegerator once, but never a keezer.

Lots of good pics for ideas if you image search.

If you haven't checked out the Homebrewtalk forum yet, its a fantastic resource.  Lots of good stuff on building keezers.


http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f252/

This is solid advice. HBT is the arf of the brewing world.

Free advice is that it's horrible.

I never considered myself much of a drinker, got that out of my system in my college days.

I got the parts for a draft system and it's the worst. It's way to convenient to have a beer now, just grab a glass and hit the tap. "Hey, we just drank 5 gallons of beer in a couple of months?"

The upside is no more bottles to deal with, get some nice growlers if you want to share with friends.