On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:05:42AM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:54:14AM +0200, Martin Jensen wrote: > > > > Nu har jeg efterhånden rengjort så mange flasker, at jeg synes et > > fadølsanlæg må være næste skridt. > > Right! And there is nothing better than to come home from a long walk, > go to the kitchen, and pour yourself a pint. Imresses all your friends > too! > > > Valget står nu mellem et tårn der står ovenpå køleskabet eller en hane > > der stikker ud fra lågen. Nogen erfaringer? > > I have a top-mounted tower. Here some comments: > > - Check the fridge you buy, is there room for the kegs. The Cornelius > kegs seem to come in two styles. The difference is not very big, but > it makes a few cm in the diameter, and a bit more in the heigth. My > fridge was so narrow that I can only use the slim and tall kegs. A lot > depends on the bulge most fridges have at the back of the bottom, > where the machinery is located. > > - Old fridges use a lot of electricity, it may pay off to buy a newer > model. Even if the initial cost is higher, the difference in > electricity bill will balance things out in a reasonable time! > > - My fridge was filled with some hard foam insulator, probably > polyurthane. It was no big deal to drill holes in it, once the bit got > through the hard surface plastic, it just fell through the foam and > into the inside plastic. > > - I drilled a number of holes in a circular pattern, and cracked the > center out. That way I got a hole that was large enough, but had ugly > edges. That didn't matter, since the tower had a nice wide base that > covered the whole thing. > > - Taps and beer lines must be cleaned too. Of course this is *much* less > work that washing all those bottles.
The only thing I have to add is just make sure you don't drill into the cooling lines ;) > - Occasionally you want to fill a bottle or two to bring for friends. A > counter-pressure filler is on my shopping list for that purpose. I looked around and got hoptech's cpf because the description made it sound like all tubing was stainless steel. (Description on site was: brass and stainless) They just forgot to mention that the tubing was copper. It arrived bent and the people were not accomodating at all. The only good thing about it is the 3 way valve so I only have to use one hand to switch between gas and beer. Thomas
