Last week the True Grist Executive gathered to discuss future club events, to share some homebrew, and to put together a jockey box. We were successful in all three of these regards.
For weeks the True Grist Equipment Director, Andrew Ash, gathered research and supplies to build what would be a high performance jockey box for True Grist. We will use this jockey box at some of our own events, but most of it’s action will be seen when borrowed by our Full Members. Our Equipment Rental portal is now live with all the details. Rentals are provided on a first come first serve basis… literally 🤓.
For 2018, the rental price has been set to $0!
The Vintage Coleman Cooler was generously provided by Scott Hilts (brought all the way from Arizona by Norm Ryder). Scott had originally planned to build his own personal jockey box with the cooler but he felt that it had a higher calling. This cooler is way… cooler than what we were going to do originally, which was to use a cheap plastic one. Stainless tap handles were provided by Jeff Bueckert, you’ll note in the gallery below how well they really tie everything together – the latch, handles, shanks, faucets… all lovely matching stainless steel. And of course, we could not provide our community with this project so soon in True Grist’s history and at so high of a quality if it weren’t for our many passionate members. We’ve nearly doubled our original membership projections at time of my writing this post – amazing!
We are grateful to have received donation of this vintage Coleman cooler for the project – which was in excellent original condition (up until the point that we put holes in it). To start this build we needed to find the perfect placement for our two new stainless steel Intertap flow control faucets. We wanted the lid of the cooler to easily open and close with the taps and tap handles installed. This looked about right… 
On the inside of the cooler, the shanks are to pass through at a height just slightly above the the chilling coils. We wanted the coils to sit flat inside the cooler to reduce stress on the shanks and the coils themselves. Our Equipment Director Andrew (in the True Grist hat) seems to approve. 
We were exacting in our cuts. Painters tape was used to ensure minimal damage to the vintage Coleman mojo in the process. 
Faucet shanks now being fastened into their final position by Steven. 
No turning back now… 
Ta da! To use, beer lines are attached to stainless steel shanks out the back with a beer nut. Beer will then flow through a 70′ of 3/8″ stainless steel coil, poured as cold as the Rocky Mountains themselves out the flow control faucets. 
Club jockey box