Beer Forum

I'm in the planning stages of a home addition. Of course a bar is central to the addition!

I love the look of wall mounted taps and I am trying to figure out the logistics of a cold room behind the bar area.

The problem is the logical place for this has it behind an exterior brick wall, 8" thick. By time I consider the cold room wall + brick wall thickness + bar wall facing, I am looking at over 12" to pass the shank.

I am worried about that much material sucking the cold out of my beer line. Anyone know how places like Falling Rock Taphouse in CO and other beer bars with wall mounted taps go about mounting & insulating their lines? I doubt they glycol each tap, but I could be wrong. A glycol system is not in the budget.

Thanks!

You can buy shanks up to 18" long so getting through that thickness of masonry and the cooler wall shouldn't be a problem. I assume your brick wall is either brick veneer or brick and block. Brick should be a pretty good insulator as should cinderblock with the possible exception of the airspace at the core. But this is trapped and so should stay cool. If you have veneer the space between the studs is doubtless filled with foam insulation. IOW I think you would be OK just ramming holes through and inserting proper length shanks.

Great Stuff expanding foam insulation.