Keeping beer cold

[herzzreh]

So how do you keep your beer cold?

[THEBOILERMAN]

So how do you keep your beer cold?

[london_ajay]

Usually I get the freezer-friendly beers such as carling etc. Freeze them overnight then put in a coolbag with a couple of normal cold ones (I turn the ringpulls round to know which ones are ready to drink) so I can drink them on my journey.

The frozen ones start to thaw, with some ready to drink after I finish pitching my tent and beautifully cool on the Thursday!

A few points though, beer cans can warp and sometimes explode in the freezer mainly if they have been recently shaken or funnily enough what brand they are.

What are everyone else's experience of good beer brands to freeze?

[herzzreh]

Crap... I would've never thought of freezing beer. Problem is that I'll be comng straight either from RAF Mildenhall (if flights work out as planned) or Stansted (plan - nowhere to freeze the beer.

On a side note, accounting how much it would cost to get anywhere from either Mildenhall or Stansted, it looks like car rental is the way to go for me two of use traveling.

Edited October 3, 2010 by herzzreh

[ajknight7498]

My friend said that he took an icebox with beers at the bottom frozen, he would then leave the icebox open at night where it got colder and would replace the lid during the day. Said it worked pretty well.

[crow]

Freeze the beer and anything else you can - you will want to start doing this a week or so before you go, as it takes a while to chill down a large volume of liquid, so better to just add a 4 pack at a time. Also freeze lemonade etc. that you might want to drink cold. Plus make loads and loads of icecubes.

A good freezer box is ace - don't bother leaving open overnight though, just keep shut at all times. Remove any liquid water as it forms from melting ice. If you've kept everything clean it will be drinkable.

If can't afford a good cool box go to butchers/fishmongers - they get their fish in polystyrene boxes that are perfect to use, they just aren't very strong, so whack it in a cardboard box.

IF you don't get that just wrap all drinks in newspaper, place together in a cardboard box and fill an airspace with more paper or straw. I had ice until Friday that way last year - and it was lovely!

[Cupcake]

http://www.igloocoolers.com/Coolers_3/All-Coolers/50-Quart-Island-Breeze-MaxCold-Roller

We bought one of these last year, well worth the investment. We still had ice on Sunday!

[herzzreh]

http://www.igloocoolers.com/Coolers_3/All-Coolers/50-Quart-Island-Breeze-MaxCold-Roller

We bought one of these last year, well worth the investment. We still had ice on Sunday!

[grumpyhack]

Depends on how you are travelling. We bought a three-way fridge box a couple of years ago (Calor, 240 volt and 12 volt). Keep it cold in the car with 12 volt and then at Glasto run it on Calor. We put fresh food and fruit in to start plus just a few beers. As the fresh food (strawberries etc) got eaten we filled the freed up space with beer. Worked a treat.

Alternatively if you are pushed for space fill a washing up bowl with water, put in your cans and drape a tea towel over the top so that the tea towel is in contact with the water. Evaporation causes cooling so as water evaporates from the tea towel so everything in the bowl is cooled.

Plus comments above on pre-freezing.

[4AssedMonkey]

I've asked for an Igloo Maxcold for my birthday.

Loads of frozen beer and ice should see my though the long weekend.

That said, if you are flying in from the States and going straight to Glasto, you won't have time to chill anything down beforehand, so there's little point in taking a coolbox. You may be better just taking additional cash to spend at the bars. Less to carry. Plus a decent coolbox and some ice packs will set you back £80 to £100, which is a lot of beer money.

[G1T]

Keeping stuff under the groundsheet works surprisingly well you know. A mate I go to festivals with has to take steroids daily, and they have to be kept cold at all times or else they deteriorate. He keeps them along with beers under the groundsheet, and they're always nicely chilled, even during the hot summer this year.

[4AssedMonkey]

Keeping stuff under the groundsheet works surprisingly well you know. A mate I go to festivals with has to take steroids daily, and they have to be kept cold at all times or else they deteriorate. He keeps them along with beers under the groundsheet, and they're always nicely chilled, even during the hot summer this year.

[guypjfreak]

bucket of water old son

[G1T]

Has to? The way I need to take MDMA daily?

[jeffie]

My bud bought a Coleman Hard Walled coolbox last year, we left it in my car in all of the heat, popped back a few times for bits and bobs of food and had Mojitos with ice on Sunday morning.

[rachbon]

i just leave my cans on the floor in my tent. then they're cold enough to drink in the morning.