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Posted on 06/04/2006 11:30:05 AM PDT by Vision
I now own the American Dream, my own beer refrigerator.
I like Bud Light and I like it very cold. I'm playing with the thermostat to see how cold I can get the beer before it freezes. I had a can the other day that was perfect. I opened it up and for the first few minutes I drank an ice crystal or two.
The temperature at the top of the fridge is 28 degrees, 25 at the bottom, and I can get it colder. The temperature of the beer is the same as the area of the fridge it came from. If I open a 28 degree can, the beer will freeze(or turn into a Slurpee) for a few minutes after it's opened. What's strange is the 25 degree beer does not freeze at all. Anyone know what is going on?
in High School we had the phrase "mule piss" for crumby beer-
it's funny that our poster is goin to such lengths over a presumably poor product....
here's a good question for you :D
Awwww, I knew you were gonna get picked on by starting this thread, so all I'm gonna do is sit back and enjoy it all and keep my mouth shut. Enjoy your beer! :P
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Showing up on the drinking threads again, Huh????
Like that's gonna stop anyone from commenting.
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Detached 1-car garage, converted it into an art studio in the seventies, converted it further into a man den in 2000 - wide screen tv, beer fridge, sterio, super high-speed internet -
needs a woodstove, though.
ping
i see. lol.
We had a fridge way too cold with, unfortunately, some PBR in it at the time. Instead of a beer slushy, it would freeze the beer fixins solid while leaving a liquid top layer of alcohol/formaldehyde/etc. It just appeared not to freeze.
LOL :o)
nope, you'd chase us all outta here.
it would become the family sauna ;)
Have some sympathy for panthers. They gotta eat too, and sometimes, selling their beer is the only means they have of making a buck.
Just a guess,..water freezes at 32 deg F, any other additive to pure water as a solute will lower the freezing temp. It might also lower the temperature at which the liquid that turns to gas, actually vaporizes. The first couple of degrees when the gas comes out of solution, will further cool the path along which the bubbles travel. When the beer has more water in it than an evenly mixed brew, a local frezzing might occur along the path of the bubbles, resulting in the ice crystals or solute crystals forming.
Just a guess.
I suspect the reason it isn't freezing for several degrees just below that temp is that the bubble gas is in solution at that temp.
You must be really bored!
When liquid freezes it increases in size so don't be surprised when you think you hear a gunfight at the Old Corral, it's just the cans exploding all over the inside of the refrigerator. Good luck with the clean up.
Yeah I get that way too when I'm into my second 6-pac.
LOL
The Slurpee phase is about the only way I like beer, but let me ask some thing-
Are the 25 degree and 28 degree beers opened under the same humidity/dew point conditions?
If I remember correctly, ice crystals can only form under certain specific temp/humidity/barometric pressure conditions, but they can't form out side of that...even if it's colder.
Too rapid of a temperature increase as you open the colder beer doesn't allow enough time for the crystals to 'grow', since it's not an instantaneous process.
Does this make sense?
:-)
Only cuz I knew you'd be here, Digger! Love your redneck windchime.....you make that all by yourself? :P
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