Has anyone seen a keg and wine fridge combo in one unit? Looking for the traditional mini-fridge size. Thinking the wine lines the front and the back would fit a 1/6 barrel keg only. Might be able to retro fit a kegerator for it but curious if anyone has seen this concept yet.
I have never seen that, but it could be cool. It would seem like it would be too cold to be storing wine in though.
Prior to service ideal wine storage and consumption is in the 50s. Beer is 40s. You will either be opening cold wine or pouring warm beer if it's 1 chamber as you suggest.
I have a wine fridge that holds different temps for reds and whites, but never seen a wine/beer combo. So keeping different temps is not an issue, I like the idea.
I see you posted on Micromatic's site too. I was going to point you there, they sell dual temp pro line wine dispensers so you could theoretically use one side for beer and the other for wine.
Good point on the cold wine or warm beer. Since it's my project and my wife drinks the wine, she can have cold wine. She stores it in our fridge which is already too cold anyways. With that being the case, I'll put together a design on retrofitting a normal kegerator with some racks, lighting and a clear/windowed door.
Using this kegerator as an example: http://www.micromatic.com/keg-refrigerators/kegerators-pid-SBC490BI.html A full wine bottle won't fit in front of the keg so would have to be 1/2 of it for other things like beer/pop and other 1/2 for wine bottles. Here's a design of what it might look like (top view):
You don't want to be storing bottles in a cold plate kegerator, opening and closing it will cause the plate to frost over and lead to all sorts of foam and cooling problems with the beer.
Thanks for your response. I considered that as well. Ideally, it won't be frequently accessed. We have a separate fridge in the garage for most of that stuff. This would be overflow. In the end, it's main purpose is a keg fridge but need to sell my wife on it so the wine component is factored in now.
OK, good luck selling it. If you go this route we will see you soon when you start posting about foam.
I modified U-Line wine fridge for sixtels. don't do it. you will not get even temp control. I have been screwing around with mine for a long time and I have many draft system installs under my belt. ... don't do it. the cold plate is specifically designed to be at two different temps at the bottom and the top. the top is not as cold as the bottom. keeping your line cold is a total pita. don't do it. as for the MicroMatic wine fridge, these are very nice and very expensive. and you are of course limited to the proprietary Torr wine storage system, those systems are not designed for bottles. a wine fridge for bottles on the other hand, is not designed for kegs. you really have one choice here. a kegerator. you can find some space inside for a wine bottle or two, that's it. and you will be drinking 38-40 degree wine. Cheers.
Something like this would work but the zones would have to be side by side obviously: http://www.wineenthusiast.com/wine-enthusiast-classic-beverage-center.asp To Doug's point above, I would have to dedicate the cooler side to the keg only, no other beverages so as to not open the door frequently.
