I’m planning to use this blog as a place to keep my thoughts in one place for an upcoming project – an upgrade to my current keggerator.

I’ve had a two tap keggerator for some time now and love the simplicity of kegging homebrewed beer. If it weren’t for this upgrade I don’t believe I would be still in the hobby – bottling days were massively tedious exercises which resulted in my desire to brew the next batch diminishing as I knew I’d have to bottle to free up a fermenter. I also love all things hoppy and kegging really takes it to the next level.

Keggerator lives in kitchen and kitchen is getting a make-over, removing my ability to have an under-counter fridge with some taps stuck through the door and a CO2 tank stood next to it. There really is nowhere else for it to go and I don’t fancy wandering down to the cellar for a pint.

If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed

This project isn’t unique, there’s some threads around the place on installing a keezer in your cellar (or basement for you American homebrewers) namely here and here however there really isn’t a huge amount of information around. I forsee a number of possible problems which I’m hoping to overcome through a combination of trial-and-error, the great folks over at Reddit Homebrewing and my auld Da.

There’s a few generic problems with a build like this;

How do I keep the beer refrigerated on it’s journey?

How do I balance lines that climb 10ft?

Can I even climb that height using normal 3/8 line without having to up the CO2, thus over-carbing the beer?

And another which is possibly unique to this project;

How do I design this so that I don’t have to remodel a kitchen wall when I move?

There’s plenty to work out between now and the day I’m choosing which of 8 taps to pull a pint from and hopefully by then it’ll be nicely documented for the next poor bastard who got into homebrewing to save a few quid.