All about beer
If you need to cool down a lot of beers in under five minutes, take your cooler (or a big bowl) and fill it with ice, salt (think handfuls), and water. Salt lowers the freezing point of water. This will cool the beer down within 5-7 minutes.
If you wait a full five minutes , the beer drops to about 45 degrees Fahrenheit, six degrees cooler than in the bath without salt. Here’s what you do: Take a bowl, fill it with water, add ice, and a couple tablespoons of salt. Drop in the can. Wait a minute , and stir up the mixture.
I just place a keg in a primary plastic bucket surround the keg with ice and add water to the top of the ice. Some of the ice will melt so stop pouring water when it reaches the ice level. Add more ice then top off with water. The entire keg does not have to be submerged as the brew is drawn from the bottom.
About 15 minutes
Ice isn’t put in beer because it would water it down when it melts. That’s why it’s chilled by being put in a container inside of an ice bath or if you have the more fancy stuff, you run chiller lines through the brew to cool it internally.
In the freezer , it took 40 minutes for red wine to reach its ideal temperature and 1 hour for white wine to reach its ideal temperature. The winner! In an ice bath, it took just 10 minutes for red wine to reach its ideal temperature and 20 minutes for white wine to reach its ideal temperature.
“That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it’d be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes , if you put salt in that water, you’d reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes .
They were ready for consumption after two hours and not one moment before; however we did keep opening the fridge to check, letting out precious cold air. (See our infographic: Where Food Goes In The Fridge .)
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Freezing beer doesn’t remove the alcohol in beer . Since alcohol does not freeze as fast as water, if you freeze beer , wine, or apple cider, you can up the amount of alcohol in your beverage quickly and easily.
The short answer is that yes, beer expires. But saying the beer expires is a bit misleading, it doesn’t actually become unsafe to drink, it just starts to taste unappealing or flat.
5 Ways to Cool Beer Without a Fridge Wet Paper Method. This first trick to cool beer without a fridge is simple and easy to employ. Water Method. If you’re camping by a river, lake or nearby body of water, this is a convenient solution. Ice Bucket Method. If you’ve brought a cooler of ice from home, you’ve made a wise choice. Burying Method. Zeer Pot Method.