{"id":3275,"date":"2011-03-03T23:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2011-03-03T23:49:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T04:49:23","slug":"kegged-beer-cooler-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/kegged-beer-cooler-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Kegged Beer Cooler: Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The kegged beer cooler is complete, sitting in the basement, and is actively cooling what remains of two kegs of beer. Tonight I ran the gas lines, fitted everything into place, and set it up against one wall of the basement. It’s currently set to start cooling at 40\u00b0F and shut off at 35\u00b0F ambient temperature in the unit, which I expect to keep the beer at somewhere in that range. It may be necessary to narrow the band to something a bit narrower, but I’ll be able to determine that after putting a full keg of beer in the freezer and monitoring it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been considering fitting the fridge with taps, but for the time being I think I’ll just stay with using picnic-style taps inside the unit. Actual beer faucets are around $100\/each after considering all mounting hardware, and I don’t think they’ll provide enough benefit to justify doubling the cost of the unit.<\/p>\n

Here’s some more notable photos of the unit throughout its progress:<\/p>\n

· Completed chest freezer to beer keg conversion.<\/a>
\n· Looking inside at two corney kegs, party tap-style dispensing lines, gas lines, temperature sensor, etc.<\/a>
\n· Gas line transition from the compressor compartment into the body of the freezer. It is held in place with twist-type reusable cable ties.<\/a>
\n· Temperature probe in place and gas line and Y fitted. Excess foam was left in place to serve as a hose guide.<\/a>
\n· Operational Johnson Controls A419 temperature control indicating that it is currently cooling.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of the photos can be found here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>. And yes, Roxie (photo gallery retired)<\/em> approves of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The kegged beer cooler is complete, sitting in the basement, and is actively cooling what remains of two kegs of beer. Tonight I ran the gas lines, fitted everything into place, and set it up against one wall of the basement. It’s currently set to start cooling at 40\u00b0F and shut off at 35\u00b0F ambient\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-beer","category-food","category-making-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}