New Draft Beer Technology
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Costly Mistakes With Your Kegerator Conversion
You can’t just go in blindly when you are converting your old refrigerator into a kegerator. I’ve seen some horrible mistakes. I’ve seen mistakes that have caused the refrigerator to be no longer usable in any capacity. You don’t want your refrigerator conversion to turn into any of these catastrophes:
One day, a few friends of mine were enjoying their draft beers out of their freshly converted kegerator when all of a sudden they heard a pop. They didn’t think anything of it because they had been hearing different sounds all day. One of the beer enthusiasts decided to pour another drink and got a half glass with a lot of foam. After closer observation, the beer line had popped off the regulator and was damaged. The beer drinking fun was over until the beer line was replaced. A good bit of beer was on the bottom of the refrigerator too. A nice mess to clean up when you have a CO2 tank pumping air through a line to make sure the beer keeps flowing.
I have actually witnessed the next mistake go both ways. The CO2 regulator needs to be set to the right psi. Not over and not under. Can you imagine walking up to the kegerator and not getting anything out of it? Or worse yet, can you imagine damaging a beer line because you had the psi too high? Great ways to ruin a party.
But, the one that takes the cake is the amateur who decided to just drill the hole through the door without knowing what he was doing. The hole was too big for the shank because this guy wanted to drill the hole as big as the nuts. Enough said about that! Scrap the refrigerator and go find another one.
So before you make any of these mistakes, make sure that you know everything you need to know before you get started:
Converting a Refrigerator into a Kegerator
Putting The Home Bar Together The Easy Way
When you have your bar and your cabinets built, you’ll want to get to drinking in it…Now. But, I’ve seen some make shit jobs that aren’t really all that great. Then, I’ve seen some expensive setups that are way out of the reach of most of us.
So, here’s the home bar the easy way:
The kegerator is the first thing you put in your bar. It keeps your keg cool and it adds style in an inexpensive way.
This kegerator can actually make the entire bar. If you choose to use a kegerator like this to hold your kegs, you can make it a part of the bar’s counter top. Then, you only need counter space on each side. That’s a setup made easy, as easy as it gets.
Grab a tap handle of your favorite beer and now you’ve got something to really get you bragging. There are tap handles of all kinds, from your favorite domestic to your favorite import. As a promotional tool, every beer you can think of has a beer tap handle for commercial uses as well as the home bar enthusiast.
But, just in case you have a beer of your own or some other “unrecognizable” libation, get the beer tap handle you can write anything on that you want.
Tell people, “Try Me!” Give your concoction a name. Have fun with it and write, “Make Your Own Beer…” or whatever else you might come up with to prank your friends.
You’ve got the bar. Dress it up in style. The kegerator and a beer tap handle can turn any room into a bar. Your bedroom, your dorm room (oops), your garage, your basement, your tree house…