How To Cool Beer Lightning Fast

There are few things as refreshing as a cold beer on a hot summer day.

Okay, maybe two cold beers. But sometimes the unthinkable happens: someone drank all of your chilled beer (it was probably you) and the only ones left are warm. Don’t panic, because we’ve got plenty of ideas for how to bring down the temperature of your bottle or can and make it quaffable ASAP. Here are five kitchen hacks for cooling beer quickly, including a trick that takes less than 30 seconds.

Beer Cooling Method # 1: Submerge the beer bottle or can in a bucket or large pot filled with ice water and salt. The salt lowers the freezing temperature of the mixture of ice and water, causing the ice to melt, which lowers the water’s temperature and chills the beer faster. Chilling time: About 15 minutes


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