So I bought a old 15 cft. Gibson chest freezer for $100 and me and my father built a coffin style bar casing around the freezer. I'll eventually post some pictures showing the build process start to finish but for now I thought I would just post some pictures of the finished product.
As you can see the chest freezer lid is bolted to lid of the build. I can fit 6 kegs and a C02 tank in this chest freezer (hints the 6 taps). And Yes... If you were wondering, the top is tiled with granite tiles and it is very heavy. The base of the build provides just enough height to ensure that the freezer seal is not overly pressed by the weight of the top. If you look at the picture to the left you can see I added pressurized gas support lifts to the lid in order to cut down on the weight of the lift.
The coffin box was designed with future access in mind. I have a small fan to circulate cold air from the chest freezer cabin into the coffin around the taps and back. This is to help with the temperature differential between the beer in the keg and the beer coming out of the tap. If there is not proper circulation between the coffin and the freezer every first pour would be foamy until line cooled.
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