Recommended beverage coolers for cellaring

I'm confused about what you're looking for here, you want to cellar cans? And yeah, all temperature-controlled units are meant for wine, because that's 99% of the market. Mine is meant for wine but all I did was remove the shelves and it was good to go for beer.

 

Yeah, so just take the shelves out of a wine one and use it, mine needed no other modifications past that. Pick a model with internal dimensions that will let you do it.

 

Is it ok to just get an old dorm fridge with a temp controller and use that? What temp would you use?

 

Okay for what? When you're talking about cellaring you really need to specify your goals. If you just want to keep beers for a while because you're backed up, but don't really want to age them very long, then a closet or a fridge is fine. If you want to keep beers for a few years to see how they develop, then a closet is probably okay, a basement almost certainly fine, and temperature-control will work great. If you want to keep beers for the long haul, 5, 10 years, even longer, then you probably want a real cellar, something that's completely underground, or a large temperature-controlled unit.

As for what temperature, the consensus estimate is around 55, but I don't think that being a few degrees off from that will matter much. But the longer you intend to age the closer I would stick to 55, just because that's where the experience is.

 

Thanks I think a dorm type fridge with a temp controller in my basement will do the trick for now. And they're cheep on craigslist