Hello, imgur. I would like to introduce you to a friend of mine.

This is my kegerator. While I'm not a connoisseur of beers, I do enjoy drinking them. I'd been making mead for a couple years before I decided to start kegging, and began brewing beer at the same time. Having both beer and mead on tap has been a boon for my social life. Also for my exploration of many flavours of beer and mead. I've experimented with a few different IPAs and red and brown ales. I don't have the equipment to do lagers or stouts, but one day I plan to expand my facilities. I created a strawberry mead that is a huge hit and I'm currently experimenting with a mango mead and a cherry mead. Below are pictures I took during the build.

The first step was purchasing a chest freezer! There are many options when you decide to add taps, but a self-contained, dedicated fridge large enough for kegs is expensive. With a temperature controller, you can use a cheaper chest freezer instead. The lid needs to be removed to build the wooden collar that will A) Lift the lid to allow more keg space and B) Provide a mounting surface for the taps.

Testing the fit! The chest freezer is basically juuuuuuuust right for two ball lock kegs and two pin lock kegs. Ball lock kegs were used by Pepsi back in the day and are slightly taller and thinner. Pin lock kegs were used by Coca Cola and are slightly shorter and fatter. Because of the shelf over the compresser, I could not use four ball lock kegs without needing to lift the lid way higher than I wanted, and four pin lock kegs have too large a footprint. But by some miracle, two of each fit perfectly.

Testing the wooden frame. There will be a second set of 2x4s added so the lid is lifted by ~8 inches. They were kinda rough, cheap 2x4s. If I had to do it again, I would by quality for all the wood. Cheap 2x4s are usually warped in some fashion, and for this build that caused all kinds of problems.

Figuring out placement for the temperature controller and the two taps. I went with Perlick taps because they look nice and while more expensive, don't stick. A friend of mine has a kegerator of his own and his taps tend to stick when not used for a couple days.

The front panel stained with the controller and taps installed. At this point the actual construction was done and now it was time for the tubing and the electrics.

Sorry for the poor quality. Gas hose installation. The full install is two hoses from the dual regulator for two different pressures available, and then a manifold for each so four kegs will each have a gas hookup with it's own valve.

Both manifolds and the electrics installed. Beer lines connected and filled with sanitized water (Cleaned first, of course).

Pouring the first pint! You'll notice the tap handles are different. It was a few months before I saw a site selling the wooden tap handles with little chalk boards on them. They were perfect for labelling which brew was currently on tap, so they were a necessary upgrade.

Bonus image! The wardrobe I bought to house all my brewing equipment and keep my fermenting brews tucked away. I've added a third carboy so I can have three going at once, and had a blowout, which taught me I should have a blowoff tube option, which is now available as well.

The build was a lot of fun! Brewing is super rewarding as well and is surprisingly easy to do. Most of my beer is drank by my friends, but brewing costs about $0.75 a pint and I live in Canada's far north, where a pint of beer is $8 - $12. So much, much cheaper.

Hope you enjoyed the adventure through my kegerator build!