martinoaro
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Long post, but wanted to share our creation and progress on a new Kegerator setup.
So, maybe others here are the same, but I'm a huge seltzer water drinker. I will drink plain water if I need, but whenever I have a preference it has to be fizzy!
I had tried stocking up on drinks like La Croix, Bubly, etc. when on sale, but I was going through them pretty quickly....went to 2 liter bottles of Seltzer from the store, but it became a pain trying to lug multiple of these home each week and the store doesn't stock many so a lot of time they were out of stock or running low. Next up was the Soda stream machines, but going through those skinny canisters quite quickly turned out to be more expensive than any of the other solutions.
Enter the idea for seltzer water out of a kegerator! We've never been into home brewing or had any interest but somehow in a search for cheaper alternatives for seltzer water, this idea came about across my screen.
One used kegerator off of Facebook marketplace later - $150, plus many more parts to accommodate the need for me to have seltzer and my partner to have beer once he realized there would be a kegerator in the house
and a ton of stress, troubleshooting, buying/ returning parts and frustration over a few week period, and I'm happy to say I now have seltzer water on tap in my house!
I'll post photos and steps if anyone else is interested in this but essentially we were able to take a single kegerator, turn it into a double kegerator with a larger CO2 tank, new dual regulator, a new corny keg (refillable for water) and many, many parts in fittings, tubing and connectors. So, while it may have cost me all in all about $300-400 to get it completely setup, I now have seltzer water on demand at only a cost of about $30 a month to refill the CO2, and we've always got beer on tap for the SO and friends at a much cheaper price than buying cases/ cans or bottles of beer when needed and storing it.
So, now tell me if anyone else has been in the same situation, or do you have a home kegerator/ home brewing setup too? Please tell me we're not the only ones that struggled with this whole idea from the beginning...although the positive outcome is we learned a lot!
So, maybe others here are the same, but I'm a huge seltzer water drinker. I will drink plain water if I need, but whenever I have a preference it has to be fizzy!
I had tried stocking up on drinks like La Croix, Bubly, etc. when on sale, but I was going through them pretty quickly....went to 2 liter bottles of Seltzer from the store, but it became a pain trying to lug multiple of these home each week and the store doesn't stock many so a lot of time they were out of stock or running low. Next up was the Soda stream machines, but going through those skinny canisters quite quickly turned out to be more expensive than any of the other solutions.
Enter the idea for seltzer water out of a kegerator! We've never been into home brewing or had any interest but somehow in a search for cheaper alternatives for seltzer water, this idea came about across my screen.
One used kegerator off of Facebook marketplace later - $150, plus many more parts to accommodate the need for me to have seltzer and my partner to have beer once he realized there would be a kegerator in the house
and a ton of stress, troubleshooting, buying/ returning parts and frustration over a few week period, and I'm happy to say I now have seltzer water on tap in my house! I'll post photos and steps if anyone else is interested in this but essentially we were able to take a single kegerator, turn it into a double kegerator with a larger CO2 tank, new dual regulator, a new corny keg (refillable for water) and many, many parts in fittings, tubing and connectors. So, while it may have cost me all in all about $300-400 to get it completely setup, I now have seltzer water on demand at only a cost of about $30 a month to refill the CO2, and we've always got beer on tap for the SO and friends at a much cheaper price than buying cases/ cans or bottles of beer when needed and storing it.
So, now tell me if anyone else has been in the same situation, or do you have a home kegerator/ home brewing setup too? Please tell me we're not the only ones that struggled with this whole idea from the beginning...although the positive outcome is we learned a lot!
