Keggerator - Your Keg Beer Fridge At Home
Making a keggerator or keg fridge at home is rather simple as long as you have a spare fridge to play with. There are a number of people selling fridges in classified ads and at garage sales for $40 or $50 so look there first.
I purchased a keg fridge kit off of a seller on eBay. In total it cost me $350 and as you can see from the pictures below it included two kegs, a 5lb CO2 tank, 2 taps, and all the hoses and clamps.
Once you’ve picked the kit that you want and you have a fridge to use you simply have to drill two holes through the front of the door using a hole saw drill bit. You should make sure before you drill the holes that your fridge does not have any cooling coils running through the door or your fridge will end up being a piece of junk. However, most fridge doors are just filled with insulation so you should be fine. Another thing to note is the placement of the tap holes. If the holes are too low you will be on your knees pouring the pint. If it is too high and you try to open the freezer door it will hit your tap handles and all your precious beer will be on the floor. You can see that I no longer use tap handles because of this problem.
Now that the tap handles in you can screw on the hoses which connect to the kegs. The kegs are actually old Pepsi canisters that used to be used to for fountain pop. Today pop companies use plastic bags so all of these kegs are useless to the pop industry and are being snatched up by home brewers. The kegs hold about 20L and have an In and Out valve. The CO2 attaches to the In valve which carbonates the beer and helps push it out the taps. The hose to the taps is connected to the Out valve and when the tap is opened out comes the beer!
The disadvantage of this system is if you do not make your own beer then it might not be worth your while. You could not order a keg from the Beer Store and set it up in your fridge because “real” kegs have different attachments so you wouldn’t be able to connect it to your taps. However if you are a home brewer then this system is great. I originally wanted to have two flavours of beer at any time, but found I was drinking far too much. So now I only make one keg and put lemon water in the other keg. The CO2 carbonates the water so I have a tap of sparkling lemon water and a tap of beer.
Now if you are not interested in all this do it yourself home beer stuff then check out Barfly for some absolutely stunning retro beer fridges.
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I know brewing purists sniff at it, but I’ve got The Beer Machine and it’s a lovely bit of kit. Fits nicely in my fridge and brews really good tasting beer with a lovely head.
bit of a chemical smell, but generally pretty great.
Nothing beats kegerator beer
I find it interesting that people are ready to go through all this trouble to make this happen. I am a beer guy myself, but seems I’m just a noob comparing to you or others who do this.
It’s actually not all that much trouble. The beer is only $30 for 3 2-4’s and brewing the beer is more of a hobby then a chore. Transfering the beer to the keg is a breeze and you only have to wait a couple of days for the beer to carbonate compared to 2 weeks for bottles. Then you’ve got nice fresh beer at your finger tips anytime you want it. It’s great!
Cool tutorial, I bet buying kegs would save me a bit of money over all those bottles.
I wonder for how long I live when my wife discovers I’ve bought such a hellmachine))))
Thats funny - the keggerator!! Sounds like something off Strongbad.
MMMM drink beer all day…
I don’t think my GF will like this idea 
That picture at the top looks like the tank Javier Bardem was using in No Country For Old Men.
If we had an extra fridge and proper space for it, I’d let me boyfriend make a keggerator because I think they’re awesome.
I love good home brewed beer. I have a friend who is very good at it.
All I can say is I want one of those in every room!
I also need it by my pool, in the garage.
Do you think they make a model that I can use with my tractor so I am properly refreshed while mowing the lawn?
Greg
Very nice setup. Makes me want to have a cold frosty one!
Where have all the cool posts gone on your blog?
really good idea there
Yeah thats sweet!
Interesting, but seems a lot of trouble to go to. I think I’ll just stick to filling the spare fridge with cans and bottles.
I haven’t seen a new post on here in a long time! Are you still going to write on this blog?
I always liked brewing beer, but hated washing all the damn bottles!
This is a great idea!
Wow man its great. I like beer a lot. I am always interested in machines like this.
Lmao! i’d build one of these just to show off. It would be soooo cool.
wow, thats a great idea.
i will purchase it too
lmfao thats a cool gizmo right there.
Wow now thats a sweet setup. I have got to get me one of those.
I just bought one from ebay… I love it
wow thats awesome!
I make the best homemade bananna beer around
Maybe ill send you a case!Maybe i’ll send you a case?
Looks Great!!! I might try to run it through my windshield wiper sprayers directly into my truck. Heaven knows you can’t run out of beer driving to get more!
Homebrew. You can’t beat it.
John