Cooling beer without a fridge
- Thread starter disguisedpotato
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Cap'n Jack
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- GoldMineGutted
Not at all, although I do like to put a towel over the tubs if the event is a very hot day but even then the towel probably isn't necessary. Biggest thing to worry about is the tubs we use actually break if you hurl iPod's into them while they're full but I believe that's a story for another thread...
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- DG Silva
I've been told that Londoners drink room-temperature brews.
If you serve a beer too cold, you can't taste any of the flavours in it. So you need to serve beers (not lager, as Americans only seem to drink) at around 10-12°C (normally, lager is served at 2-5°C).
It reminds me of an old Monty Python joke: Why is American beer like making love in a canoe? Because it's ****ing close to water.
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- xViLLaiNx12
Is a sad truth that you are dead on when it comes to the major American breweries (Budweiser, Coors, Miller, etc.) but I'm pleased to report that the small-market microbreweries in the US are doing a fantastic job. If you head over to The Beer Thread you can read the write-ups by Sage. One company in particular, Stone from San Diego County here in California, is making big time headway in showing what Americans can brew when quality is held above quantity. I recently took a trip to Portland, Oregon and I'll tell you right now that it was the best beer I've had in my life and they were all-American microbrews.
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- DG Silva
Sage
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- GTP_Sage
Well, you're talking about the difference between ales and lagers, which are subcategories of beer. I agree that lagers are generally poo, but there are definitely a number of good ones. Sam Adams Boston Lager and Sierra Nevada California Common come to mind, and there are plenty more. Plus the Germans supposedly make some good bocks.
Gad, I have like 15 reviews that need to be written for the Beer Thread.
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I suspect that's probably a bit late for the chap's party by now...
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- The__Luke
Rubbish, it's not too late.
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- HamiltonMP427
Didn't you get the invite, it's in a continuous time loop and it's still going.
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- TurboLefty78
Besides, no one got the obvious answer to the OP's dilema, which is:
1 keg of beer is much easier to keep cold than 120 bottles. Problem solved, this thread may now be closed.
1 keg of beer is much easier to keep cold than 120 bottles. Problem solved, this thread may now be closed.
