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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow. Simply wow! That is beautiful. Congrats
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow x10!! I love you, Man!!!!Can I try and copy this??? My life has just come a major step closer to being comlete!!! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks again everyone for the great complements.

I should mention that cleaning the beer lines after use is not too hard to do. Basically, I fill a pressurized keg with home brewing sanitizer and run it throughout the system. Then I purge the system with a second keg of CO2 which drives out all of the sanitizer. It just takes a few minutes and that’s it.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i never say this to anyone ...especially in the bay forum... but you are my hero.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bump because my bus was featured in the MAR/APR issue of Brew Your Own.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Bump because my bus was featured in the MAR/APR issue of Brew Your Own.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/BellePlai...18bf66.jpg

Hope he doesn't mind. There is no free online edition of the magazine that I could find.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool setup!

Do you have any photos showing it with the keg and jockey box/cooler installed?

Do you have any problems with foaming, and if so how do you mitigate them?
Any time I travel with cornies I get pretty bad foaming problems until they kegs have had a few hours to sit and settle down.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pretty ingenious there, BellePlaine! Hello from just "down the road" in Savage.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

berkeleyjack wrote:
Cool setup!

Do you have any photos showing it with the keg and jockey box/cooler installed?


Do you have any problems with foaming, and if so how do you mitigate them?
Any time I travel with cornies I get pretty bad foaming problems until they kegs have had a few hours to sit and settle down.


Unfortunately, I don't have pix of the kegs inside of the cabinet. Here’s another shot of the beer cooler coil. The only place that I know of that sells a SS 50 foot coil is Beer, Beer, and More Beer.
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Foaming is not a problem. The beer line is pretty long; here’s a video. You can see that I could have used a little more carbonation in that beer.


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Eche, good to know that you are so close! Maybe I'll see you at the Westside VW Bug-In?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've read this thread more than once. I still love it. I have to do something similar with my budget bus project.
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PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2013 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOVE IT!

Was going to buld a new vanity/kitchenette and as a Westy and homebrewer (beer, wine, and mead), was going to install a "jockey keg" system smiilar to what you did with coil and just add ice/water.

Thanks for sharing your design and I didn't even think of using the cornelius keg(s) for water. i have man spares, so I will DEFINITELY be doing that!

I have a 77 West, so will have it behind the passanger seat by the sliding door soo peeps can pour themselves a drink inside or out and during tailgates!

Thanks for the ideas and sharing!!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't even drink , but I'll raise a pint to that piece of brilliance! (from a fellow Riviera owner)
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:10 pm    Post subject: Re: How To Install a Cold Draft Beer (and keep the water) System Reply with quote

Any chance the photos from this genius still exist?
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:21 pm    Post subject: Re: How To Install a Cold Draft Beer (and keep the water) System Reply with quote

GMATech wrote:
Any chance the photos from this genius still exist?


Yes, go back to the start and kick the link after the photo dying comment. I just looked thru them 5 min. Ago.
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 6:16 pm    Post subject: Re: How To Install a Cold Draft Beer (and keep the water) System Reply with quote

Glad I copied the Pix to the Gallery. Much to important to be lost!
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 6:26 pm    Post subject: Re: How To Install a Cold Draft Beer (and keep the water) System Reply with quote

Just saw that thanks!
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 8:52 pm    Post subject: Re: How To Install a Cold Draft Beer (and keep the water) System Reply with quote

Tcash wrote:
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