No More Beer Waste
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Refrigerator Conversion To Kegerator Mistakes
You can’t just go in blindly when you are converting your old refrigerator into a kegerator. I’ve seen some horrible mistakes. I’ve seen mistakes that have caused the refrigerator to be no longer usable in any capacity. You don’t want your refrigerator conversion to turn into any of these catastrophes:
One day, a few friends of mine were enjoying their draft beers out of their freshly converted kegerator when all of a sudden they heard a pop. They didn’t think anything of it because they had been hearing different sounds all day. One of the beer enthusiasts decided to pour another drink and got a half glass with a lot of foam. After closer observation, the beer line had popped off the regulator and was damaged. The beer drinking fun was over until the beer line was replaced. A good bit of beer was on the bottom of the refrigerator too. A nice mess to clean up when you have a CO2 tank pumping air through a line to make sure the beer keeps flowing.
I have actually witnessed the next mistake go both ways. The CO2 regulator needs to be set to the right psi. Not over and not under. Can you imagine walking up to the kegerator and not getting anything out of it? Or worse yet, can you imagine damaging a beer line because you had the psi too high? Great ways to ruin a party.
But, the one that takes the cake is the amateur who decided to just drill the hole through the door without knowing what he was doing. The hole was too big for the shank because this guy wanted to drill the hole as big as the nuts. Enough said about that! Scrap the refrigerator and go find another one.
So before you make any of these mistakes, make sure that you know everything you need to know before you get started:
Converting a Refrigerator into a Kegerator
Take Your Favorite Beer Survey
I love going on the forums and reading through discussions of people’s favorite beers. I hardly every hear Budweiser, Coors, Miller or anything normal, which is what you see people “normally” drink.
I always see some exotic beer that they’ve had maybe once. I’ve also caught some people up in their discussions when I realized they hadn’t even had a taste of the beer they were discussing. What in the world is that about?
Let’s be honest. We go to the bar and we get our favorite beer. We get the one we always drink. We love the exotic beers that are hard to find and not commonly sold. We love new tastes and textures. Of course, we’re up when it comes to trying something we’ve never even heard of before.
But, we have a favorite. It’s the one at the local store. It’s the one at the liquor store on the way home. Do we try new things every once in awhile? Yes. But, don’t we normally go for what we know? Most of the time.
If you disagree, please feel free to comment.
So, I’d like to know what you guys drink. What is your favorite beer? Throw us anything, worldwide. But, I would hope that you’ve drank your “Favorite” beer more than once and that it’s not just an exotic beer you thought would be fun to include in this survey.