More First World Problems

[Yellow Fang]

When I buy a couple of tins of lager from the shop, they look lovely and cool with little drops of condensation on the tin. But when I put them in my fridge, within a couple of hours all that condensation is gone, and it's not as cold. However, when, I put one in the freeze, it started to freeze solid. I thought the alcohol might have saved it from freezing, but it didn't. How do I keep my beer appropriately cool?

 

[Racing roadkill]

When I buy a couple of tins of lager from the shop, they look lovely and cool with little drops of condensation on the tin. But when I put them in my fridge, within a couple of hours all that condensation is gone, and it's not as cold. However, when, I put one in the freeze, it started to freeze solid. I thought the alcohol might have saved it from freezing, but it didn't. How do I keep my beer appropriately cool?

You can use your ‘beer freezes’ discovery, to make your beer stronger. The water freezes before the alcohol, and sinks. If you skim off the alcoholy bit, it will be of a much higher ABV.

 

[Vantage]

Give them to my ex wife and tell her to keep them close to her heart.

 

[raleighnut]

Drink em outside the shop.

 

[slowmotion]

Drink em outside the shop.

That requires almost superhuman restraint.

 

[Drago]

Brew your own, no cans

 

[Welsh wheels]

When I buy a couple of tins of lager from the shop, they look lovely and cool with little drops of condensation on the tin. But when I put them in my fridge, within a couple of hours all that condensation is gone, and it's not as cold. However, when, I put one in the freeze, it started to freeze solid. I thought the alcohol might have saved it from freezing, but it didn't. How do I keep my beer appropriately cool?

Put some shades on it and a backwards-facing baseball cap.

 

[I like Skol]

Are you not mistakenly confusing the condensation effect with the actual coldness?
Condensation is an indication of moist air and can occur when there is a temperature difference. It is likely that your fridge is as cold or colder than the shop drinks chiller but is just much less moist due to design and less regular opening of the door. Also, the wet cans may feel colder to the touch as the water droplets will help form a more efficient heat transfer to rob the heat from your hand and transfer it into the chilled can, thereby giving you a cold aching hand and beer that warms up more quickly than a dry can!

 

[Beebo]

Drink em outside the shop.

Preferably with your shirt off revealing a very white torso.

 

[Slick]

It's a nightmare, isn't it.

 

[Electric_Andy]

In the shop the fridges are usually not sealed, or not very well. The armer ambient air hits the cold can so you get condensation. Also the ambient air is moist. In your home fridge, it is sealed so no ambient air can hit the outside of the can. If you wrap the can in a piece of damp kitchen roll, it woill cool faster. This also works in the freezer, and if you submerge the can in iced salt water.

 

[ColinJ]

When I buy a couple of tins of lager from the shop, they look lovely and cool with little drops of condensation on the tin. But when I put them in my fridge, within a couple of hours all that condensation is gone, and it's not as cold. However, when, I put one in the freeze, it started to freeze solid. I thought the alcohol might have saved it from freezing, but it didn't. How do I keep my beer appropriately cool?

I spent 40 years trying to work out the answer but finally I had to admit defeat and gave up drinking instead!

 

[slowmotion]

Buy a thermometer and an RH meter and take readings in your drinking den. For added geekiness, you might wish to get a barometer too.

Using a psychrometric chart, you can calculate the dew-point temperature that will make condensation form on the outside of the glass/can. Set the fridge to that temperature and gargle away.

 

[Slick]

Got to be honest, drinking it has just got to be simpler.

 

[Moodyman]

Sounds like too much thinking and not enough drinking on the OPs part.