Constructing a Keezer

Originally published in the January/February 2013 issue of Zymurgy magazine. I’ve been brewing beer for just over four years now. When I began brewing, those with more experience told me that bottling beer was the worst, most tedious part of the hobby. I was told that someday, if I stuck with it, I would want to keg my beer. It only took me a couple of years to heed that advice, as my more sessionable beers now go into kegs. My first kegging setup was a 5-pound CO2 tank, dual gauge regulator, two Cornelius kegs, an inexpensive non-digital Johnson temperature controller, and a chest freezer that was barely big enough to hold what I just listed. Keezer (definition) – a chest freezer that has  been  modified with a temperature control unit to become a chest refrigerator, for the sole…

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