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How to keep your beer cold at Glastonbury

Its coming to that time of year again, when a festival-goer has to consider the prospect of paying Anheuser-Busch or the like upwards of three pounds for the privilege of a cold beer. Since the wall has arrived, the number of vendors of cold beer has declined, allowing the ridiculous prospect of only getting beer from a paper cup at London prices.

Which is why we need a good method for keeping your beer cold. In fact, I would like to offer the prize of a four pack of cold beer, redeemable at the festival, to anyone who can come up with a Glastonbury friendly beer chilling method. The rules are that the method must:

  1. Not involve electricity
  2. Be light to carry
  3. Be made of stuff that you can get in the UK, legally
To kick you off, I think you could get a cold beer from 260ish grams of Ammonium Nitrate. Just mix it with water, place the beer in the water and off you go. At about a kilogram for a cold six pack, I’m not sure this passes (1). Also, ammonium nitrate is controlled in the UK so (3) might be a problem as well (but this is Glastonbury, so maybe not so much of a problem). The calculation also involves silly things such as a perfectly insulated chilling chamber, so the beer would probably end up lukewarm anyway.

This entry was posted by James Casbon on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 12:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “How to keep your beer cold at Glastonbury”

  1. James Says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 12:43 pm allegedly you can get this stuff for £6 a can at B&Q and one can is sufficient to chill an entire slab of lager..

    Pipe Freeze Stuff

    However, this is only hearsay, I have no empirical evidence…
  2. James Says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm Actually, lets just use the inequities of a market system:

  3. James Says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 12:50 pm Hmmm img src tag disbaled?

    Try http://www.a4internet.com/temp/comp.jpg
  4. James Casbon Says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 12:57 pm Looks like it. The pipe freeze link is bust as well. I am sure there is some method for defeating bribery, as they must have seen it coming. Or maybe the ’shrinkage’ explains the inflated price in the first place.

    I like the drawing of the £5 the best
  5. James Says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 1:01 pm http://www.corgi-direct.com/Product.aspx?cID=809
  6. al doyle Says:
    December 21st, 2007 at 12:50 pm get in touch old boy! would be good to see you - I’m around throughout January pretty much, so is Felix.

    And if you’re a musicthing fan, you must have seen this:

    http://www.ravegenerator.com/

    which made me think of you!
  7. Chris Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 10:09 pm buy 99p bucket from hardware shop and bring it. fill up with nice cold water from taps, put beer in water, water cools beer. simple.

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