A former instructor has ditched the classroom for DIYs and his personal business that was impressed by a frothy do-it-yourself birthday present for his dad.
While on the lookout for a birthday current for his avid homebrewing father, 25-year-old Billy Clay stumbled throughout the well-known kegerator — a fridge designed to retailer and dispense kegs of beer — however was postpone by the excessive worth level and as an alternative thought he would attempt to make one himself.
“I was unemployed at the time so I didn’t really want to fork out $700 on it, so I decided to have a crack at making my own,” the Attadale man mentioned.
“I’m not handy with tools at all. I can honestly say before I did this I had never used a drill, a hole saw or anything like that … but I found an old bar fridge and all of the parts and did a pretty good job of pulling it all together.
“It worked out to be considerably cheaper and my dad loved it.”
When his mates additionally discovered a number of love for his creation, Mr Clay realised others may wish to make their very own kegerator-inspired bar fridge too.
“I was living in a share house and all of my mates absolutely loved it and it made me think that this kind of set up is usually what homebrew dads would usually have, but it’s not really something that the general party share house has been exposed to,” he mentioned.
“So I thought ‘this is such a cool thing, why don’t we target something a little bit cheaper for someone that might be at uni or in a similar life space?’.
“That’s was where the idea of Brew 2 You and the Kegerator Kit was born.”
The Kegerator Kit comes with all of the components wanted to upcycle an outdated bar fridge right into a fully-functioning beer-dispensing kegerator. Mr Clay says the work will be carried out by anybody in just some hours.
“It includes a fountain with the tap, the drip tray, a temperature regulator, a CO2 regulator and the keg itself — all you have to do is find a bar fridge, get a SodaStream, attach everything to the fridge and then fill up the keg and it will be good to go,” Mr Clay mentioned.
“If you’re brewing it yourself, it’s going to be cheaper. There are places in Perth that will fill up your keg for $50, which for 20 litres works out to around $1.50 a pint, which is absurd when you think about it.
“Plus you’re not using glass bottles and cans or plastic all the time either.”
The Kegerator Kits go for $350 on the Brew 2 You web site.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
