Admin on April 5, 2012 5 Comments For those that enjoy drinking draft beers at home, a kegerator is the best idea for getting great-tasting beer. Who can blame them? Kegerators are a sound investment, and they allow you to get a good supply of beer at a lower cost than buying them by the bottle. Your kegerator is great. It gives you beer, and you drink it. That is your simple, easy relationship with this beer-dispensing god. But what if your kegerator is lacking that certain look? While having a kegerator is awesome, most today don’t have an innovative design or layout. If you’d love to be able to build a kegerator out of everyday objects or into unique places, then you are in luck: today we’ll be showing you some of the coolest and most innovative homemade kegerators we’ve seen so you can get your creative juices flowing. Chest Freezer Kegerator This kegerator was made out of an old chest refrigerator/freezer and modified to hold up to 8 kegs, making the home it resides in a proverbial bar for anyone that walks through. The inside of the freezer holds both 5 liter and ¼ barrel kegs filled with local and national brews for those with varying tastes. Lines run through each keg to their respective taps, while gas lines run from the back of the kegerator to the kegs to give the pump enough CO2 to deliver the delicious liquid to your glass. An extra side bucket keeps bottled beers on hand in case you don’t like what’s on tap. This unique kegerator is great because of the size of the container and quantity or variety of beers that it can hold. Truck Tailgating Kegerator Let’s hope this doesn’t interfere with any open container laws! This innovative kegerator is made out of a truck bed toolbox, which allows you to drink and serve beer wherever you go. This is (of course) a perfect accessory for tailgating and BBQs, and you can be sure the party will stay wherever the beer goes. It is also easy to change the kegs out, as the toolbox lid lifts up and allows you to access the inside of the refrigerated unit. The customized tap handles also give the entire kegerator that manly feel, just in case a truck kegerator didn’t do that enough. Driver Arcade Kegerator For the hardcore gamer, the arcade car/kegerator allows you to play your favorites while drinking your favorites. Just relax in front of the screen and play any racing game you’d like. Whenever you get thirsty, just reach behind you and pour yourself another beer! Recommended situation: if applicable, try playing Need for Speed while downing a nice brown ale such as a Newcastle, Sam Adams Brown Ale or Brooklyn Brown Ale. Arcade Machine Kegerator This is the dream of many men who still keep their inner child inside of them. As a fully stocked arcade machine and kegerator, the Arkeg allows you to play all of the classics while never having to go far for a nice pint. This machine features 69 of the classic video games from the golden era of gaming, including Missile Command, Paperboy, 1942, and Mortal Kombat (among many others). You can also buy a 5 gallon keg of your favorite beer, or you can brew your own to taste whenever you’d like! Refrigerator/iPod Kegerator Why own a regular refrigerator when you can have a fridge that solely serves beer? That seems like all you’d ever really need in your home. But what if that fridge also played your favorite tunes on a built-in iPod dock? Well, that would just be outright fun. This fridge features a kegerator tap built onto the front of a fridge where the kegs of your favorite beer are kept, and the iPod dock is right above it, so you can change to your favorite song while pouring your favorite beer. And you thought fridges were just for food… We are always looking for great ideas for new kegerators. If you have a kegerator you’d like to show us, send us a picture on our Facebook page.
Allen Livingston says January 5, 2014 at 12:51 pm Do you know how the truck and the arcade machine cooled down the insides? I have an old nitrogen tank that I want to convert to a kegerator, but I don’t want to drill into it and affect it’s insulation (some of it is gas insulation, and I don’t want to lose it. I have been searching and asking people about using mini fridge parts or a heat exchanger to cool it off, any ideas or suggestions? Thanks! Reply
Tim says September 16, 2014 at 10:11 am Kegerator made out of an old 1960’s Coke Machine: oldcokemachine.com Reply
Jeff Flowers says September 17, 2014 at 8:41 am Hi Tim. Nice work on restoring and converting that Coke Machine into a kegerator/wine fridge! Jeff Reply
Jason says May 7, 2016 at 9:10 am I was cleaning the keg faucet and and the washer in the shank fell out. Does anyone know if it is suppose to be inside the shank or between the shank and the faucet? Reply