f00b4r wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:18 pmSome freezers have cooling lines between the drawers and fridge freezers usually have one compressor to cool both sections, so neither tend to usually be a good choice.
The good news is that larder fridges are quite plentiful.
A couple of things to note, corny kegs come in two shapes and you need the taller thinner type to be able to fit in 4 on a level (with the fatter shorter versions or sankey kegs you will only get 3 in on a level, possibly 4 if you hack away the inside but it isn’t very sanitary). This issue doesn’t seem to be well publicised on certain homebrew sites/channels and even denied by others, e.g. when I pointed out to David Heath that his review of a keg usage measuring product (Plaato) completely ignored that it reduced the number of kegs you could use in most UK/EU fridges he outright denied that the taller thinner ones were corny kegs at all, despite all the various new ones being available for sale being all of the same format. Not very helpful to people buying eg an expensive Kegland undercounter based larger fridge that should be able to fit four kegs but is then reduced to 3, or even worse a 3 one reduced to 2.
IMHO it’s often worth buying new kegs for a bit extra than the second hand ones for the size benefits, ability to seal at low pressures, the fact you don’t need to change seals/poppets etc and the general less hassle of finding leaks or losing a batch to issues.
If you buy a tall larder fridge and hack it yourself then you can have space for bottles at the top or some half size kegs.
Yeah I’ve got a larder fridge as it stands which I’m just going to use instead of getting the chest freezer. I do have to allow for shopping space as it’s the spare fridge. But at least I’ll still have the brew fridge so when everything’s brewed I can just turn that down to fridge temps and we still have a spare fridge then.
Measuring the larder fridge I have, it seems I’d have room for three - just about. And be able to leave the top shelf and bottom tray in. So that works for my needs.
Agree with your point though, was intending to buy new kegs, just seems safer option. And being thinner should make the three a little less cramped.
I’ve got a kitchen cupboard either side of my brew fridge so I’m intending to cut away one of those and use it as a gas store, just keeps them neat and out the way.
So next step is get a keg setup (lines taps etc) and get drilling.