A couple months back we provided a method to cool in a beer in 20 seconds. That method was a little expensive and probably wouldn’t work for a larger quantity of beer. But Dumb Little Man has a good “How to” if you’re looking to get a larger batch of brew cold quick.
Luckily a group of guys had an elder to drop some knowledge on them at a party recently, and here’s how he took some beer that was baking in the sun to being chilly in about the time it takes for my roommate to drink a shot:
Here is how he took beer from 80+ degrees to (seemingly) 40 degrees in about 3 minutes.
- He took 6 hot beers from my garage and he placed them into a steel pot from the kitchen
- He tossed in enough ice cubes to completely cover the beer
- He then filled the pot with water
- Next, and this is the trick, he tossed in (what must have been) 2 cups of table salt.
- He took a large wooden spoon and stirred this thing up to be sure the salt dissolved.
- He placed the concoction into the freezer and in 3 minutes we had ice cold beer.
Sure, this method is going to be helpful for people who can’t get beer from the coolers at the super-market, but I have a couple problems with this… You have both ice AND a freezer, why the fuck is your beer getting cooked in the sun in the first place?!?! Sure, the guy makes the excuse of not having enough room in the fridge but obviously the freezer was wide open for your damn steel pot! He’s lucky that old man didn’t give him a beat down with that large wooden spoon. No wonder the site is called “Dumb Little Man.”
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Not exactly genius. You use the same basic ingredients and technique to chill homemade ice cream.
However I agree. If you have hot beer you aren’t going to have ice, rock salt, a metal tub and a shit ton of freezer space just laying around.
It’ll take you at least 10 mins by my count. 2.5 mins to get the beer from the garage into the kitchen. Another 1.5 mins to get the pot the wooden spoon the salt and the ice. Stirring the salt until it dissolves 3 mins. Plus the 3 mins in the freezer.
I already used this for something else. Put a keg in a garbage can with ice in it then throw salt all over it and you have seriously cold beer for the whole night. Cant beat it.