Fastest way to cool your beer?

Ice water and salt in a bucket, swirl it around

 

step 1- wrap it in a wet towel
step 2- put in freezer
step 3- wait 20-30 minuets
step 4- remember to take it out and drink it

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Chill-a-Drink-Quickly

 

The wet towel doesn't do much in my experience. You can just stick it in the freezer without the towel and it will still be cold in 20-30 minutes. Burying it under some bags of frozen food does seem to help though.

 

I use wet paper towels- freeze faster than towels, it seems. 15 min you are good to go.

 

Liquid nitrogen. Quickly rotate beer around in the liquid for roughly 10-15 seconds and you have yourself a nice, cold brew! (this really isn't sarcasm)

 

Wet paper towels every time. But you cannot forgot to pull out.

 

Liquid nitrogen guy, I like the way you think, but.....a more practical solution is as follows;

1. Put the beer cans in the bottom of your dorm room trash can.
2. Dump a bag of ice over it.
3. Pour water over it.
4. Wait about 15 minutes.
5. ENJOY!

 

Just the freezer, nix the wet towels. Set the timer on the microwave for 20 minutes.

 

^^^Use the wet paper towel rather than the much thicker towel. Gets good and cold in no time.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ncuv3gewI

Explains why salt + ice = best. Science

 

Acquire the taste for room temperature beer and eliminate the problem altogether.
30 minutes in the freezer, and not forgetting, if you must have a cold one.

 

Picked up easily at the local corner store too! Absolute zero is a beautiful thing when you can get it! (And no disrespect intended. )

 

Huh....and all this time I've just simply put the bottle in the freezer for 20 minutes....

 

The Mythbusters have a really cool show about this very question! I believe their favorite way was put them in a styrofoam cooler, grab your fire extinguisher, and spray the entire contents of the cooler. Doesn't take long after that....

 

I was coming in to say this so well done.

 

First time I saw this. I was at Marianos which is a newer upscale grocery store by me. And you could put you beer in this like barrel thing and there is a heat exchanger that will chill your beer in a couple minutes. I was in awe.

 

If you can get something that stays in your freezer and wraps around your beer, you can cool it in 10-15 minutes. I use a wine bottle chiller that I got from Total Wine, its basically just an ice jacket for your bottle, but its filled with a material that doesn't freeze hard. Slip the bottle in, rotate it every 5 minutes or so, and it will be ready in no time. Its the same principle as the wet towel, but you keep it in your freezer so its already cold (and a wet towel will freeze hard if you keep it in the freezer.

 

I use an ice bath, works quite quickly.

 

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I have a 'leave no man behind policy'. I always set an alarm when I put beers in the freezer so I don't forget 'em. Only takes one mistake to learn that lesson...

 

The good thing about the ice bath is that you won't accidentally freeze your beer. The bad thing is that it uses a lot of ice.

 

Wait, so your not drinking a warm one while the others get cold?
My method is drink one warm, with one in the freezer, and four in the fridge.

 

From a practical standpoint how fast do you really need to drink the beers that a 20 minute sit in the freezer won't work?

 

That's true, but if there's an easy method to cool it in less than 20 minutes, why not use it?

 

Water ice and salt isn't rocket science but it's still a bit messy, and it still needs to sit for 15 minutes give or take.

 

True, I don't use the ice bath, it is messy. Like I said above, I have a thing in my freezer I just slip the bottle into. It works on the same principle as the ice bath (and every other method of quick cooling), which is full cold contact of the entire bottle surface area.

 

Wet paper towel, freezer, and set a timer for 15 minutes.

 

Ex Wife's heart

 

I am surprised nobody has mentioned these: http://www.brookstone.com/reusable-ice-cubes

I use these all the time and they work great. Just remember to pour the beer first, then add the cubes. If you pour over the cubes you will have a huge amount of foam.

 

I routinely use this method, it works very well- from 12 oz bottles to 750ml, to cans, 100% of the time it works every time.

 

My method: Buy the beer the day before and allow it to cool for 24 hours in a fridge or ice chest. I've never needed a quick freeze using this method, a cold beer is always ready

 

I usually just put my beer glass and the beer straight in the freezer (don't bother with wet towel) and leave it for 10 minutes. The beer cools a bit, but the glass gets really cold, so when I pour I end up with a beer at about the right temperature.

I understand the hate for frosted / frozen glassware - I wouldn't want an already cold beer in a freezing cold glass, but if the beer is bit warm it pulls it down to temp in 30 seconds - works a treat!

 

Love this thread as I've often wondered how to do the quick-chill bit. LOVE the OP's ex-wife comment

 

Chalk up another vote for an ice+water+salt cooler or bucket. This creates a solution that can get as cold as roughly -5 F and provides 100% contact with the beer container... The beer will be freezing cold in just minutes (3-4 minutes most likely).

That may be the fastest way to chill a beer, but is it the smartest way? Probably not, since it's easy to over-chill that way. I typically just use ice + water in a cooler, which won't chill quite as fast, but will ultimately reach a more beer-friendly equilibrium of 32 F.

 

They'd all insta-freeze!

 

I just stick it in the freezer and even for a bomber it only takes 20 minutes or so to get to a decent drinking temperature. My ex-wife never had a heart but I found her gaze could instantaneously freeze anything while sending chills down your spine.