My Setup

The ins and outs of putting your beer into kegs.

My Setup

Postby NTRabbit » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 5:42 pm

Just realised I never posted the photos of my keg setup!

Put it together the day before Australia Day, using a majority of parts from Craftbrewer, a small chest freezer free from an uncle, a drip try made by dad, and a second hand 2 tap Carlton T-type font from Andale (reconditioned, for a paltry $120 cash in hand! Absolute bargain!)

Dignitaries in attendance for, and the opening ceremony.
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Still needs some work - the drop tray needs to be anodised, still need a bar towel, and I have to think of something to do with the very rough and ugly top surface, but it's already served well at a number of shindigs.

As you can see, it currently has a nautical theme.

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I made these discs myself, used photoshop to play around with a deliberately fuzzy photo of an unlabeled tall 345ml bottle on my steel shelves, set it so that I can change the name and colour each time, and glued them to cardboard discs. The cardboard bit is supposed to be temporary, but since I'm still on my first 2 kegs it's been a long temporary.

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Postby Rysa » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 5:45 pm

Good job! 8)
Gotta get to work on getting my own setup ASAP.
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Postby Toam » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 5:50 pm

I probably couldn't be more impressed.
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Postby NickMoore » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 7:05 pm

Outstanding! You're livin' the dream!

I think I speak for the rest of the forum* when I say, we're all coming to live at your place.

* That probably excludes Ross from Craftbrewer who I think has seven or so taps in his set-up from what I've read.
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Postby yardglass » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 7:09 pm

Nice work 8)
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Postby yardglass » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 7:10 pm

NickMoore wrote:Outstanding! You're livin' the dream!

I think I speak for the rest of the forum* when I say, we're all coming to live at your place.

* That probably excludes Ross from Craftbrewer who I think has seven or so taps in his set-up from what I've read.


I think its 10 :mrgreen:
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Postby rahne » Sunday Jun 17, 2007 8:54 pm

1st how much did it set you back

2nd show us the inners
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Postby NTRabbit » Monday Jun 18, 2007 5:14 pm

I don't have the exact amount written down, but not including the gas bottle rental it was somewhere in the order of $850-900
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Postby rahne » Monday Jun 18, 2007 7:15 pm

I've seen already made set ups on ebay 3 or 4 kegs able to run 3 kegs at once, in a converted chest freezer and all the gear needed for brewing for $750
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Postby yardglass » Monday Jun 18, 2007 7:22 pm

rahne wrote:I've seen already made set ups on ebay 3 or 4 kegs able to run 3 kegs at once, in a converted chest freezer and all the gear needed for brewing for $750


should've bought it :wink:
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Postby rahne » Monday Jun 18, 2007 8:31 pm

is only i had the money i would have but i'm a poor tafe student that has to do chores for money to buy brewing ingredients
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Postby NTRabbit » Monday Jun 18, 2007 11:08 pm

rahne wrote:I've seen already made set ups on ebay 3 or 4 kegs able to run 3 kegs at once, in a converted chest freezer and all the gear needed for brewing for $750


I've not seen many, and none of them were in SA. I'm happy with my setup.
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Postby Trough Lolly » Wednesday Jun 20, 2007 12:59 pm

Nice job and classy tap fitout too - they look like ultra flow taps on snaplock adaptors...you didn't skimp on quality. :wink:

My Hawthorn Football Club Members Bartowel would look good on that!!

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