Festival virgin

[ICGenie]

The best booze to take to a festival is boxes of red wine. Compact to carry, gets you drunk without having to drink large volumes (thus avoiding carrying slabs and slabs of beer and having to use the bogs too often) and doesn't taste rank when warm

[DreadlockDan]

Take a cold crate of beer that is all cardboard - box rather than tray if that makes sense. Once at your site, drink a few cans then soak the box in water. Find some newspaper, soak that in water as well and stuff as much as you in and around the cans. store in the shade directly on the grass / mud.

It won't keep them ice cold on a really hot day but it will keep them cool and if its not a really hot day they'll be cold enough for sure.

[DreadlockDan]

Gave this tip before. Put them underneath your tent. The black lining keeps them cool even in hot weather. No need for an ice box.

[Sinner Boy]

Hi all. First time at a festival. How do I keep my beer ice cold. Can it be done.

[alix08]

We brought a big freezer chest thing last year which I think was from COSTCO and it was called an Igloo. Froze our bacon and milk and just pulled out what we needed the night before kept everything cold from Wednesday to Sunday but must admit, was heavy to lug it onto site!

I second the red wine thing though! We're only taking a few cans next year and the rest will be red wine or mixers. Althought if you don't drink red wine often, start experimenting on what boxes are available then you're not stuck with 3 gallons of something you hate when you get there cos you didn't taste it first!!

Also, I ALWAYS take a little, one ring butane thing with me. I don't mind paying for Lunch and Dinner while there cos the food is soooo scrummy and so much choice, but I do begrudge having to walk miles in the mud 1st thiing and paying best part of a fiver for a weak brew and 1 piece of bacon on a roll You can just pop your kettle on to warm as you come round and watch the campsite wake up and then get your bacon going. Saves a tenner a day between 2 which can buy you extra Brothers!!!! Bonus!

[irons]

You should request the monorail delivery service. It's a smoother ride so the beer doesn't get shaken up en route.

[markeee]

never had a problem with warm cans, basically, drink a few early morning, head out and about, then in the evening get some more out to drink at campsite/as you wander round the site/stone circle..should be cool in the eve

or i just get used to it and dont notice?

[buffystar]

We have a brilliant way of keeping beer cold. My mate who goes with me works on Tristars in the RAF and has access to dry ice. We get a big cooler and quarter fill it with cold water. We then take a slab of dry ice and drop it in instant freezer. Lasts for about 7 or 8 hours. Next day we do the same thing. etc etc Slabs lasts about 5 days if you keep away from water.

[BuriedBones]

I hope this isn't a cruel joke?!

[tazzyb]

some woman sold me 3 vodka jellies at T for a fiver. its a license to print money to drunk folk!