Cooling Beer: How to chill drinks in minutes

Hoping for a cold beer, but the fridge is empty? Here's how to get drinks to the right temperature in minutes.

Cool beer: It's easy.

No beer tastes better than the ice-cold after-work beer. Stupid only if no one has thought to put a few halves in the refrigerator. Most pack in such an emergency one, two bottles in the freezer and practice patience. And patience is necessary, because it takes at least half an hour for a half liter to cool down from a summer room temperature of around 25 degrees in the freezer to a tolerable 15 degrees. This is at least another half hour away from the drinking temperatures of five to eight degrees Celsius recommended by German brewers. Cool beer in minutes: this is how it works.

Cool beer: With the cold mixture in 15 minutes to the ice-cold drink

Fortunately, there is a trick that brings the beer without much effort in a quarter of an hour to the desired drinking temperature. It is called cold mixture: for this, pour cold water into a bucket, add ice cubes, sprinkle neat salt on top and stir well. It is best to mix all three components in equal amounts. Then put the bottles in, wait a few minutes and stir again and again. The cold mixture can be used to create temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius in the bucket in a flash. At best, it takes less than a quarter of an hour for the beer to reach the desired temperature. That's why beer cools better in the cold mixture.

• The temperature of ice water can not drop below zero degrees.

• With the cold mixture succeeds.

• This is because a lot of energy is needed for the crystal structure of the salt to dissolve. It comes from the heat energy of water, ice and the beer bottle.

Boost in the refrigerator: wet cloth

If no ice cubes or larger amounts of salt are in the house helps the trick with the wet cloth. For this, wrap the beer bottle with wet paper towels or with a wet tea towel and put it in the freezer. The cold removes moisture from the paper or cloth and the temperature of the bottle drops. After about a quarter of an hour, the beer is cooled down properly.

Cool beer without refrigerator or ice

Moist towels, by the way, also provide cool drinks at the picnic. For this, wrap the bottles in a wet and preferably dark towel and place in the sun. Now the sun extracts the water from the towel. In order for it to evaporate, it also needs energy. It gets this energy from the beer bottle, which then cools down immediately. Ice cold it is not so, but a few degrees, the temperature can already fall.If you prefer to rely on technical cooling, you are best to use a thermoelectric cooler.

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