Keezer in the Garage-Do taps freeze?

[arcflash08]

I built a keezer last year and have been using picnic taps since. I have Johnson temp control and usually run a 40 watt bulb through the winter in there to keep things from freezing on those exceptionally cold weeks.

My question is now I want to upgrade to Perlik faucets and am worried that they could freeze. I'd like to mount a tower off the back and up instead of out of the sides to protect the faucets from kids and the wife's purse strap.

What are your opinions?

 

[JF_HBrews]

Great question. I have my kegerator, with Perliks, in the garage with a home built temp controller and a small hair dryer for heat. I'm worried about the tower and taps freezing too.

Our temps in Denver were below zero last night and at 5 degrees now. My taps are flowing. We'll be well below zero again tonight so I'll test tomorrow again.

We had the same kind of low temps for a few days last winter too and I didn't have my taps freeze as far as I know.

 

[purplehaze]

I have five, 525 perlick faucets installed in an insulated coffin with no instances of freezing. My keezer's sits in an unheated, uninsulated shed for the past couple of years.

 

[MitDaseinBier]

Keezer in an unheated garage is not something I would be willing to do if the temp gets below 25* routinely. The building itself can provide around 10* of heat, but in a cold winter your going to need a lot more.

 

[PGEduardo]

My guess is that your taps wouldn't freeze unless it's getting REALLY cold (<30F) in your garage for extended periods of time.

In my attached 2 car garage my concern is running a small space heater to keep the ambient above 60F since fridges/freezers do not operate well below that (and from what I understand can shorten their lifespan).

 

[arcflash08]

I'm not having any trouble with my current set-up.

(Cobra heads inside closed keezer down in the single digits for multiple days)

I want to add taps which would leave beer in exposed stainless for extended periods in a tower. Beer is alcoholic but not freeze proof.

Maybe I can change my design somehow..... I smell smoke.

 

[arcflash08]

I see they've another type of perlick out there, a 630? what's the difference?

 

[poptarts]

630 is the new 525, if your garage gets cold enough for long enough they will freeze no doubt about it. Hook up an stc and get a heater, just like a fermentation chamber so you can maintain temps from both ends. I have a little ceramic "My Heat" heater in my fermentation chamber, it was -30f outside this morning and -15f in the garage, it was holding my IPA at 67f just fine.

 

[JF_HBrews]

Below 0 degrees again last night but not quite as cold as the night before. No freezing at the taps. I wouldn't rely on this result without some form of heater but, any heater seems to be enough even up the tower to the taps (so far).