More First World Problems

[Slick]

[QUOTE 5270305, member: 259"]Not in Belgium. You have to use the right glass for each individual beer, or it's Not The Right Thing. Bars have closed over this.[/QUOTE]
Haha, they would drink it oot a mucky cloot round these parts.

 

[jongooligan]

If it's just weak, mass produced lager try it in a frosted glass. If it's decent craft lager then don't as it will affect the taste.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Drink decent beer and it will instantly be cool....

 

[Yellow Fang]

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.

Ah, so if I keep my fridge door open I'll get condensation on my beer cans?

 

[slowmotion]

Ah, so if I keep my fridge door open I'll get condensation on my beer cans?

Possibly, but it's probably a bit cramped in there for a prolonged session.

 

[Bodhbh]

Hour for cans in the freezer, hour and a half for bottles. Drink stout meanwhile.

 

[Tin Pot]

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?

Sadly I have a solution for this. Getting the condensation on your beer or wine

1. Get married
2. Have kids
3. Sink all your future earnings into a house
4. Somehow buy a fridge
5. Wait until kids are tall enough to leave the fridge door not quite closed all day
6. Put beer in fridge
7. Go out
8. Come back

And hey presto! You have beer cans with condensation on it and a fridge full of food that must be cooked immediately or thrown away!

 

[Lavender Rose]

I saw a hack where you wrap the cans in wet kitchen towel into the fridge, it is suppose to cool them quicker.

 

[Tin Pot]

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

Hence we have the widely renowned “drink while you think” game. Either you come up with a solution quickly or you forget what the problem was and fall over.

 

[Threevok]

Drink whiskey - you don't worry about "cool"

In fact, drink enough and you don't worry about anything

 

[Lavender Rose]

Drink whiskey - you don't worry about "cool"

In fact, drink enough and you don't worry about anything

I use whisky stones...love them...

 

[Threevok]

I use whisky stones...love them...

That's a thing ?

I had no idea - I had to look them up

 

[Lavender Rose]

They are good, means no alcohol is diluted. Granted, they are maybe not as effective as ice cubes for long lasting cool - BUT....they look good and you get a better drink from it....

BF bought me Bladerunner whisky glasses, holy sh*t they are amazing x

 

[Yellow Fang]

[QUOTE 5270649, member: 9609"]This has crossed my mind in the past that we don't really have anything to cool this down quickly, buy a couple of bottles from the shop they need the best part of an hour in the freezer to chill them. We need something like an inverted microwave that can get the job done in 2 minutes. (I did once try it upside down but it still heated)[/QUOTE]

But how could you prevent an invention like that from being perverted to evil purposes? People would be running around, zapping each other with freeze guns. Evil scientists would set up giant freeze lasers on the moon with which they would freeze the oceans.

 

[fossyant]

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!

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