Cooler Covers

Upon gaining a number of stainless steel "coke syrup" kegs for brewing my meads, I decided to devise a way to use the tanks at an event while hiding the modern look. Using a small CO2 tank and a couple of hoses allows one to deliver beer, mead or another beverage to a tap for filling cups. My mission was to hide the whole delivery system in a period-loo king manner.

This is a discussion of a number of ways to hide things like food coolers, water coolers, beer/mead taps, and Rubbermaid totes. We will go over types of chests and discuss things you might want to hide in one. One of the biggest problems we come across is hiding things we do not wish to have showing in our camping or day-trip site. We prefer our camp site to look as period as possible. However, often times you come up against modern sanitary requiremen ts or just plain convenienc e of modern totes.

Using the plans developed by Master Robyyan Torr d'Elandris; the boxes are incredibly useful and look like panel chests, yet come apart to stack flat. They are made from plywood and 1x4s and work great as cooler covers.

Master Dafydd ap Gwystl and Master Terafan Greydragon have created a couple of different painted cooler chests, intended to appear as medieval chests with the added ability of keeping things cold at events.

A fabric cooler-cover that uses hook & loop tape along the top of the cooler to keep the cover in place when getting something from inside (simply lift up the front flap and open the cooler, leaving the sides mostly covered) and to keep the cover from slipping off when used as seating.

A papier-mâché cover for an Igloo cooler to disguise it as a wooden chest.