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Ultra Supercooled Beer: Freeze Beer Instantly

April 24, 2007 by in AV,Cool with 6 Comments


On this hot spring day here is a neat little trick to “instantly freeze” your beer in less then 30 seconds [via]. Show off to your friends:

  • Get a bottled beverage, glass or plastic, preferably glass. (non-diet/diet soda, Martinelli’s, Beer, etc.)
  • Put it vertical standing inside a freezer for three hours. (Making sure that the freezer does not shake because this could disturb the process!)
  • Take the beverage out and tap it against a hard surface.
  • Watch the magic happen before your eyes and don’t worry about wasting your precious liquid, it’s still good to drink, frozen or not

  • Olivier

    This is just asking for trouble.
    Put a plastic bottle of coke in your freezer and pray that it doesn’t explode and make a mess.
    Glass has a higher threshold to break, but if it does, you are in some serious mess.

    A much more “surprising” trick is to bang your friend’s beer bottle’s head with your beer bottle’s bottom. Be prepared to buy your friend another beer.

  • Colin

    I don’t get it…It still takes 3 hours in the freezer, I thought this was going to be something about instantly freezing beer from room temperature?

  • Olivier

    To have instant supercool beer, you would probably need liquid nitrogen.
    If you lookup nitrogen ice-cream on Google, you’ll find some nice recipees for making ice-cream in under 1 minute, provided you have all the ingredients.

  • Jason

    How is 3 hours instantly? To cool a bottled or canned beverage quickly (about 2 minutes), do the following:

    1) Place horizontally in a pile of ice in a bowl, cooler, whatever. Push it down and try to get about half the bottle or can into the ice.

    2) Using both hands, spin the bottle or can as fast as you can. Usually 2 minutes is enough.

    3) Open (it shouldn’t spray everywhere if you’ve done it correctly), enjoy.

  • Joe

    Just cool the beer like making homemade Icecream — a brine solution in your cooler with icewater and alot of salt (rock salt is cheaper) — You’ll get your room temp beverages to about 35 degrees in 5 minutes, colder if you leave them in (brine will go below 32 degrees w/o freezing).

  • Matt K.

    The process shown in the video is what scientists call “superfreezing.” Basically, if you cool any water-based substance to below freezing without disturbing it, and it is generally uniform throughout, you can get superfreezing to happen (although its coolest with water, in my opinion. It also gets best results when it is distilled water.) I tend to leave water bottles in my car from time to time. Well, last winter, I was cleaning it out, and it was probably about 16 degrees F outside, and I went to my car, and the water bottles still appeared to be liquid. Giving them a vigorous shake will freeze it instantly, while giving them a slight tap will cause the ice crystals to slowly spread out to the rest of the contents. It’s really neat to watch, and you can impress people that have never seen it before. :P

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