DIY Reclaimed Barn Wood Beer Caddy

Make Your Own Wooden Beer Caddy

Our whole family got involved in the building of these caddies (father Val, brother Aaron and sister Des). It was our lucky day when a friend called to say he had some reclaimed lumber we could have. He found a large amount of beautiful 100-year-old wood from an old board-and-batten-style barn in Wisconsin.

It took us three days in the shop to transform that gorgeous wood into 20 beer caddies. Each caddy requires 2-1/2 board feet, has black pipe handles and a bottle opener on the side. Each wooden beer caddy holds 8 longneck beer bottles or 6 heritage beer bottles, which have fatter bottoms.

You can find a plan for the wooden beer caddy and a list of materials below. We show a couple of jigs that help streamline the process, so you can build a bunch of these at the same time.

If you can’t find old barn boards, you can use 3/4-inch pine or cedar (and you can skip the planing step). Then, follow these instructions for aging wood.

Project Drawings and Materials List