I used to have a Beverage Air commercial kegerator - the thing was as loud as the eruption of Mount Krakatoa and used more power than a fully armed and operational battle station. When it died it was with a sort of relief that I listed it on Craigslist so I didn't have to haul it to the dump myself. Shortly thereafter I bought a brand-spanking-new whisper-quiet 7 cubic foot Haier chest freezer, 2 dual perlick faucet towers and a 4 way manifold with the intent of building a keezer. That was 2 years ago... I got lazy and just plugged in a picnic tap - giving the kegs a blast of CO2 from my 20 pound tank to serve homebrews. It seemed I would never build the kegerator. About a month ago I finally got tired of stepping around the dusty boxes which held the various pieces and parts (read: wife got tired of stepping around them) so in a fit of pique I went to Home Depot, bought a hole saw and ripped two holes in the top of the freezer. My plan was just to mount the towers and be done with it. After seeing what man had wrought, my wife suggested that perhaps we could make an entire completed kegerator using nothing but parts from Home Depot. So that's what we did. Below are a few pictures from our build; everything came from Home Depot. No special guitar-quality curly maple or custom thingies whatsoever. Also - I suck at doing this stuff so if I can do it, anyone can. Freezer with frame: Bead board attached to frame: Rear view with top attached (we added a grate for the vent in the side of the freezer): Sanded with top: Placing the aluminum tile: Stained and finished:
