|Team Moped| Kripto
February 22nd, 2005, 08:43 PM
After this last Lan I read some interesting topics about homemade brews and drinks. So I pose the serious topic of Unique and one of a kind setups you have or had. I know some of you have stills… I’ve always wanted to make one like the still in the swamp in M.A.S.H.
My roommates and I have just begun our first phase of our keg-o-rator. We bought a full size fridge at the UI surplus store for 70 bucks, bought a Keg-o-rator kit from ebay (co2 tank, fittings, regulator, tap etc) Since all of my roommates are engineers it has taken a life of it's own. We have completely stripped the old fridge and used 15 cans of black spray-paint and made it look purrdy. The kit is going in this weekend, (after we work on the moped!!!)
Phase two
Put in an actuator and sliding shelf that will open the door and have the keg slide out so that we don’t have to lean in and put the keg into the fridge. Once this shelf is built, a postage scale will placed to measure the weight of a keg in order to calculate how much beer is left.
Phase three
We have bought one of those vending machine bill acceptor to take cash and we have plans to build a machine to dispense plastic keg cups for parties...self serve beer.... woo hooo
Phase four
We plan to have most of this stuff all tied together to a computer (placed in freezer for cooling) and place a screen (maybe touch screen) in the door to display all information about pressure, beer remaining, temp, etc... For now though it is just going to be routed to one of our computers.
It won’t be all done at once and it's going to be expensive, since I’m not going to be around I have the luxury of not buying into it, but my roommates plan on seeing this one to the end over the next 2 or 3 years.
My roommates and I have just begun our first phase of our keg-o-rator. We bought a full size fridge at the UI surplus store for 70 bucks, bought a Keg-o-rator kit from ebay (co2 tank, fittings, regulator, tap etc) Since all of my roommates are engineers it has taken a life of it's own. We have completely stripped the old fridge and used 15 cans of black spray-paint and made it look purrdy. The kit is going in this weekend, (after we work on the moped!!!)
Phase two
Put in an actuator and sliding shelf that will open the door and have the keg slide out so that we don’t have to lean in and put the keg into the fridge. Once this shelf is built, a postage scale will placed to measure the weight of a keg in order to calculate how much beer is left.
Phase three
We have bought one of those vending machine bill acceptor to take cash and we have plans to build a machine to dispense plastic keg cups for parties...self serve beer.... woo hooo
Phase four
We plan to have most of this stuff all tied together to a computer (placed in freezer for cooling) and place a screen (maybe touch screen) in the door to display all information about pressure, beer remaining, temp, etc... For now though it is just going to be routed to one of our computers.
It won’t be all done at once and it's going to be expensive, since I’m not going to be around I have the luxury of not buying into it, but my roommates plan on seeing this one to the end over the next 2 or 3 years.