After getting hold of the Fermzilla I couldn’t wait to drink fresh beer straight from the fermenter. But the Fermzilla was too big to fit into my beer fridge so I needed a kegerator/fermentation chamber that would be big enough. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything off-the-shelf that was suitable, so I had to make my own.
Let’s start with the end product and explain how I got there.
It all began with an OSB (Orientated Strand Board) base – with wheels!
The floor walls and ceiling were a sandwiched of Kingspan insulation foam between OSB and MDF sheets.
I took the door off my old beer fridge and put it inside. To provide fermentation temperatures, I also needed a heater. The Inkbird 1000 temperature controller solves that problem by switching the heating and cooling elements based upon the set temperature.
To ensure re-circulation of hot/cold air I fitted a 12V fan to the ceiling. And while I was a it, it seemed simple to add some led lighting.
To make it easier to clean and reflect the heat, I lined the inside with foil paper.
The top was made from 6″x 2″ boards glued together.
