What's your tips for keeping the beer cold ?
What's the best esky IYO ?

With footy finals in full swing, I am getting prepared.

I just bought a 41 litre Dune esky and use 4 blue plastic ice packs with no ice and the beer is colder then the fridge after 6 hrs. I plan the buy the 80 litre next. My tip is to make sure to beer is cold as you can get it before putting it in the esky. I like to have the beer in the fridge for min 24 hrs then place it in the freezer for 1/2 hr before putting it in esky.

IMO ice on it's own is not cold enough.
Ice combined with blue ice packs do the job.

Any Esky you decide to use, as well as filling it with ice fill it with salt water too.
Ice slurry in salt water will keep your beers chilled

Not Waeco, you need aftermarket latches


Anything fibreglass and 3"thick walls, and Like Stu said some salt chucked in

I have one of these Scotty - its a ripper - keeps ice whilst camping for 3 days before a refill is required. We normally fill up 3 or 4 2 litre ice cream containers as ice bases as well. If its just beer for the footy I just use normal ice and a bit of water to speed up the cooling process - watched an experiment once on myth busters that confirmed water and ice is the fastest way (more surface area exposed) - add salt and it speeds it up even more. If its just me I just run a rolling fridge to freezer to mouth beer rotation policy. Works perfect.

Grab a bucket
1 cup of salt
a few ice cubes and
abit of water
stir and add alcohol (cans/bottles)

stir again every half hr and near frozen drinks will be hitting you gob.
Cheaper than any fridge and the more you stir the colder it gets - I do this when camping and get 1 week from a small esky - just have to add more salt once a day if still cold. Almost forgot a damp cloth over the top makes a big difference aswell.

set the Engel to 3

An old 50 ltr keg with 3 layers of aircell, put 19ltr keg of home brew in fill with ice .lasts 2 days
completly portable and you don't run out

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Cassa said..

An old 50 ltr keg with 3 layers of aircell, put 19ltr keg of home brew in fill with ice .lasts 2 days
completly portable and you don't run out

Are you adding ice to the beer? Wouldn't that water it down too much?

fill esky with drinks then top up with granulated dry ice.drinks will be c-c-c-old

items required:

A cardboard ORICA "presplit" box, or similar heavy gauge cardboard box, plastic bin, fitters toolbox or the boot of the apprentices car.
2 x plastic [mylar?] liners of the type that are in detonator boxes,
A couple of shovelfuls of ammonium nitrate.
Slabs of "industrial lubricant" from wetmess.

Put one liner in the box or suitable container.
Add ammonium nitrate and water to about 1/3 volume,
Sit second liner on top and fill with tinnies of industrial lubricant.

They will be cold in no time at all,

The second liner prevents the ammonium nitrate slurry from direct contact with the tinnies.
Trust me - contact between tinnies and slurry, followed by tinnies and mouth is not a good thing.

After a few hours you can "reboot" the AN slurry by adding more water.

When finished - water the slurry down and dump on the lawn.

Beer + one waeco

whose beer last long enough for ice????

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grumplestiltskin said...
whose beer last long enough for ice????

The ladies above

^^ so i guess you guys love nothing more than after a nice 4 hour sail in the summer afternoon reaching into the car a cracking open a beer at 40 degrees?
Yummo

at the campsites like coro or 3 miles I was pretty happy drinking warm EB.

that would make the places more authentic I guess

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chrispy said..

grumplestiltskin said...
whose beer last long enough for ice????

The ladies above

Pfffft you don't even drink.

you want Cold Beer - go the WAECO

You shouldnt be drinking beer Newscotty as i believe you are morbidly obese.

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poor relative said...
You shouldnt be drinking beer Newscotty as i believe you are morbidly obese.

Just checked my BMI and it reads 40 and says I am obese. I am 187cm tall (6'2") & 137kg. Unfortunately the BMI doesn't take into account muscle mass and also the fact I am hung like a Shetland.

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NewScotty said..

poor relative said...
You shouldnt be drinking beer Newscotty as i believe you are morbidly obese.

Just checked my BMI and it reads 40 and says I am obese. I am 187cm tall (6'2") & 137kg. Unfortunately the BMI doesn't take into account muscle mass and also the fact I am hung like a Shetland.

did you weigh yourself with or without your burqa on