Easiest way to cool a bottle of beer from room temperature to serving temp?

[mizzou]

I right now will just throw it in the freezer but usualy i take it out and it's not cold enough or it's got ice in it already.

i need a better solution think tank!

 

[Born2bwire]

Iced salt water bath.

 

[Dubb]

CO2 fire extinguisher - takes less than a minute

 

[sundev]

Dump the beers in a bucket, fill it with water, ice, and salt. Mix it around for a few minutes.

 

[mizzou]

Dump the beers in a bucket, fill it with water, ice, and salt. Mix it around for a few minutes.

I don't have ice =(

no ice machine and freezer is always full so no ice trays

 

[EXman]

I leave it in on the back porch. It's cold out!

 

[FoBoT]

1-put it in the refrigerator yesterday
2-salt water ice bath

 

[JEDIYoda]

Iced salt water bath.

But you have to take the beer out of the bottle/can first.....

 

[biggestmuff]

1. Write a note reminding yourself for when time machines are invented to travel to yesterday and put beer in fridge.
2. Now go and open your fridge
3. Mind = blown?

 

[mizzou]

never heard of the salt thing, sounds like an easy job w/ my sink and some ice cube trays.

average min of cooling itme?

 

[Tiamat]

bucket of cold water.

 

[biggestmuff]

Wait a second. What kind of beer? We could all be wasting our time here.

 

[mizzou]

Wait a second. What kind of beer? We could all be wasting our time here.

just your average lager

i will frequently have bud light or sam adams in storage and whenever i just want to have one or two they are never in the fridge

 

[darkxshade]

If you're in NY or anywhere further North, just leave it outside for 10 mins.

 

[sundev]

never heard of the salt thing, sounds like an easy job w/ my sink and some ice cube trays.

average min of cooling itme?

Depends on how much water/ice you have and how much beer there is to cool down, but I'd say under 5 minutes. I've cooled down a six pack in about 2 minutes.

 

[Sea Moose]

1-put it in the refrigerator yesterday
2-salt water ice bath

how does the salt help? Why not fresh water ice?

 

[lxskllr]

Drink it as is. If it doesn't taste good that way, you've bought the wrong beer ;^)

 

[RedCOMET]

how does the salt help? Why not fresh water ice?

Salt helps lower the freezing point of water b/c the water is now a solution.

 

[gorcorps]

Swap the polarity of your microwave power cable. Now it should make things cold fast instead of hot.

Stand back, I'm an engineer

 

[RapidSnail]

Salt helps lower the freezing point of water b/c the water is now a solution.

It's the temperature that cools the beer, though; not the state of matter. I do not understand.

 

[Nik]

It's the temperature that cools the beer, though; not the state of matter. I do not understand.

Exactly. The salt allows the solution to remain liquid while below the freezing point of water, but doesn't inherently make the water any colder.

 

[Modular]

I've never really had this problem when freezing beers. Just throw it in the freezer for 10 minutes.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just make sure there's always a few cold ones ready in the fridge. I do that with pepsi, I make sure there is always at least two in there.

 

[Colt45]

just stick it on the back porch for a bit.

 

[Arkaign]

Once when I was bored, me and my bro-in-law used a bunch of leftover mostly empty canned air sprays upside down on a 6-pack. It was outside in August, and we got the things really frosty despite the heat.