I could really use a good beer cellar. Barring that, a decent beer fridge would do nicely.The average refrigerator is meant to keep food items fresh for as long as possible. Maybe not fresh, but at least at a greatly decelerated rate of decay. This is great for milk, eggs, cheese, vegetables, and left-over delivery pizzas.
Not so great for beer. People often talk about having a nice cold beer. Cold beer is awesome if you drink swill. That way you don't really taste the nastiness due to the numbing of your mouth. But good beer, real beer, has a whole lot of flavor. A natural beer cellar should be capable of maintaining a constant 55F. This way the beer starts off slightly chilled and quickly warms to a very tasty temp. If I am paying for the best hops and malt I want to enjoy them. A really good beer actually tastes better at these warmer temperatures. Barring a natural cellar or my own private cave, a separate beer fridge would suffice.
A lot of side by side fridges have two freezer compartments on one side and the fridge on the other. Couldn't one of those freezer compartments be reconfigured as a beer and wine 'cellar'? The upper one of course for obvious reasons of thermal dynamics. With such a fridge I could enjoy a proper temperature beer at any time. That could make my life damn near perfect.
A keg fridge isn't a bad idea either. It would have to be large enough to hold at least three kegs. My beer cravings change frequently.
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You could probably get one of those old single door fridges at a used appliance shop for not much money. they're not very efficient, but at 55 degrees, you're not going to draw much power anyway.
mmmmmmmmmm beer
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