Portable 2-Tap Kegerator

My plan all along for the wedding party was to have some really good beer on draft. I’m still working on getting a  good sixtel for the party since I have been away so much. Worst case I will get a sixtel of 60 min from Corridor. Either way my plan is to have a commercial sixtel and a homebrew corny available.

The only remaining challenge was to figure out how to dispense it because the caterer does not have anything to do this with. I already have a two tap tower because I recently switched to a three tap so my best option was to use that in some fashion. I basically considered two options, 1) Stand with the tower that can clip on to a table; 2) Portable kegerator made from a sealed plastic trash can. I chose the second route because it seemed like an easy way to contain the kegs, keep them cold with ice, and cover with linen so that it looks ok.

So what I ended up doing was:

1. Get a 35 gallon cylindrical plastic trashcan from Lowes
2. Cut out a round piece of plywood and epoxy’ed it to the top of the trash can lid
3. After replacing the existing beer lines, I screwed the tower to the plywood and through the lid
4. With the lid done, I used some excess plywood to build a base
5. Started the base by nailing two pieces together for stability
6. Next I nailed on cleats to hold the trashcan and C02 tank in place
7. Then screwed on four 3 inch casters to the bottom of the base some that it was movable
8. For the gas I screwed a 1 to 2 distributor next to the gas cleats and cut a slot in the top-back of the can for the gas lines.
9. This setup works well enough to handle 1 sixtel and 1 corny, or 2 cornies.
10. The tower was a little wobbly so I bolted the plywood to the can lid to ensure it stays if the glue does not hold.

All in all the thing looks like it will work well. I tested it with full connections and the standard D coupler for the commercial keg sits a bit too high  so I had to order a low profile one, but other than that it’s fine. Still need to figure out how much ice is needed, but that should be an easy problem to solve.

Any one want to volunteer to take this home with them at the end of the night? Pictures are below: