BeerBorg

I've been using picnic taps for the past few years on my kegs inside my wine fridge. I also have a mini fridge that I use for bottles that I've often thought about converting to a kegerator. I'm just not a particularly handy guy so I've been putting it off...

A few days ago I was checking Craigslist and found a great Edgestar kegerator that was less than 2 years old with a dual tap tower. I contacted the seller and found out that he was moving on Sunday and was motivated to sell. I left town for a few days assuming it would be gone on Friday when I got home but when I called him he said he still had it. He was asking $450 but I offered him $350 and he took it.

So this came home with me last night:


Here's what it came with:
- Brand-new, never used faucets. He bought Perlicks, which he was keeping so he put the original new ones back on.
- A 5lb CO2 tank (which I already had)
- Regulator (which I already had)
- Johnson Controller (which I already had)
- Manifold for the CO2 to split to 2 kegs (which I already had)

This thing is PRISTINE inside and out:


I spent about 2 hours today moving my wine fridge out and moving this in, replacing the beer lines, swapping in my CO2 tank and regulator and swapping in my JC (its a newer version).

What I really like about this unit is that it has a mount on the back for the CO2 tank which allows it to stay outside of the kegerator so there is some extra space inside for bombers, etc.



I can sell of the parts I don't need, including the wine fridge now and get my out of pocket cost for this down to about $250 or lower!
But, I just realized that the extra JC and wine fridge would allow me to have temp controlled fermentation chamber year-round now
(I've used my mini fridge in the past, but it requires me to empty it and store the stuff in there elsewhere when I wanted to do that)
And.....it's always handy to have an extra CO2 tank around for when one empties, right?

So I may or may not sell of the extra stuff - I don't know yet. But right now, my kegs are in the new kegerator and chilling for a pour tonight!

Great deal!! Unless you are strapped for cash, why not keep it all? Like you said, you could put it to use.... and have spares.. I've never seen a back mounted tank. I';ve seen holes drilled, but never a mounting braket. Cool...

Odds are that I will keep it all.

He also threw this growler in:

Nice score Ron, first pours from a new system are tasty indeed. And a full time fermentation fridge is a nice thing to have.

Ok, for throwing that in my face, I take back my other post.

Nice score!

You are going to love this thing. I am all for keeping the spare stuff. You will need that CO2 bottle to push the beer out of your conical when you get it.

LOL, I would say that I am never going to buy a conical but I remember when I said things like:
"I'll never brew more than one batch at a time"
"I'll never keg"
"I'll never have more than 1 keg"

You can see where this is going...

Kealia wrote:You can see where this is going...

Yep, the same place the rest of us have been.

For some reason I now want to buy a house with a basement, with a drain in the floor of such said basement.

Awesome score Ron!
And, I have 2 of the Stone growlers but with a different design on them. Only way to get them was to get it filled with Self Sublimely in one and Enjoy By in the other earlier this year.

I had a test pint, or two last night - pours like a charm.

It's not in a good place for lighting/pictures but I'll see what I can do later. I'll try and video the next pour, but if that doesn't work I may just have to do it again. And again. That's how much I love you guys and what I'm willing to do to capture the moment.

Indeed!!! That is a nice score!!




Rick

Kealia wrote:I'll try and video the next pour, but if that doesn't work I may just have to do it again. And again. That's how much I love you guys and what I'm willing to do to capture the moment.

If that's not true Bromance, I don't know what is. A video of you enjoying your good beer, while we sit thousands of miles away.
Next you'll be showing pictures of yourself at Stone Brewe...... wait, never mind.

Hey, did you team up with Paul to concoct some Nawlin's voodoo on me? Have a cold today so I stayed home and rested. No pours tonight

So.....my wife gets home the other day and I show her my new kegerator. She thinks it's "pretty".
Then I show her all the extra stuff and start talking about what I might do with it ,etc. and what does she say?

"So now you have a dedicated fermentation chamber that you can control temps on, right?"

I. Love. Her.