getting drinks cold

[GetDrunkStayDrunk]

without ice, fridge, dreezer blah di blah.

Saw franks post in his hemingway thread about cooler drinks in the creek and it reminded me of this little trick

Learned this in afghanistan where the water would top 100 degrees, not cool.

take some sort of cloth, socks work great. now you need a string, try to make a sort of sack to hgold the drinking vessel. now soak the cloth with water and hang it up somewhere. preferably where there's a breeze. the trick is that evaporation cools the drink as the cloth dries. so the faster it dries the cooler it gets. I could get water damn near fridge cold in the desert. it'll take nearly an hour though. so if you're going somewhere secluded bring alot of socks.

[felinamojokitty]

good socks is hard to come by

[GetDrunkStayDrunk]

Good news!
Old socks work just as well.

[Miklo]

Learned this in afghanistan

when were you in afghanistan and who were you with? I was in ramadi, iraq in 2005, USMC.

[Mr Boozificator]

Learned this in afghanistan

when were you in afghanistan and who were you with? I was in ramadi, iraq in 2005, USMC.

That's the one theater of operation I'm trying to go to this year, but they keep on having "better plans" for me. Might go around mid 2011 anyway.

[GetDrunkStayDrunk]

I was there last summer when they started the push into Helmand and Marjah was just kicking off, with the Marines.

[Army Grunt]

I was there last summer when they started the push into Helmand and Marjah was just kicking off, with the Marines.

Good advice. I used something alike to that in my area (Konar, OEF X). I'd drop it in areas we'd patrol every 3-4 hours on foot, and snatch it up next time around. Made the home-made hooch taste palatable. We didn't get Helmand heat in the summer, but weren't far from it.

[G_W]

Reminds me of an anecdote.

"Why do you drink cold beer?"
"Because it's refreshing."
"Why do you drink warm beer?"
"What the hell else are you going to do with it?"

[Sgt. HSA]

Reminds me of an anecdote.

"Why do you drink cold beer?"
"Because it's refreshing."
"Why do you drink warm beer?"
"What the hell else are you going to do with it?"

That's actually a Cliff Clavin quote, right there.

[Patchez]

While doing o bit in the USAF we had the old C02 fire extinguishers in our deuces. We would deploy once every few months. At the end of the deployment we would pack up all our shit and have the evening to ourselves. We'd head into the nearest town and raid it for every bit of beer we could afford. When we'd get back to the compound we'd want to drink these as soon as we could. well an old Master Sergeant showed us how cold those little extinguishers can get close up. All that frost flying out the nozzle. One of 'em would flash chill a case to near perfection. Our supply sergeant could never figure out why they would always come back empty after a deployment.

[Screwball]

Ya know, I think I can get ahold of some old CO2 extinguishers.

Just got to get them out of the shop without the Bossman knowing.

[Savage]

Wow, like Heloise Drunkard Survival Household Hints. I love it. I twirl the booze one hundred times in the freezer ice bin and leave it for a half hour or so. That would be the spoiled suburban way to chill, I guess.

[G_W]

I saw a show about butlers. One of the tricks they had for serving wine on a picnic was to wrap the bottle in newspaper, get it wet, and hold it out the window while driving around. The evaporation was supposed to cool it down, but I imagine in 100+ weather that wouldn't work well, so whatever.

[fizzmaster]

That sock method is great! I'll have to remember that if Earl knocks out my power this weekend.

[Resident Asshole]

While doing o bit in the USAF we had the old C02 fire extinguishers in our deuces. We would deploy once every few months. At the end of the deployment we would pack up all our shit and have the evening to ourselves. We'd head into the nearest town and raid it for every bit of beer we could afford. When we'd get back to the compound we'd want to drink these as soon as we could. well an old Master Sergeant showed us how cold those little extinguishers can get close up. All that frost flying out the nozzle. One of 'em would flash chill a case to near perfection. Our supply sergeant could never figure out why they would always come back empty after a deployment.

Mythbusters did an episode on the fastest way to chill beer. I forget what was #1, it might have been dry ice. #2 was the fire extinguisher method. Surprisingly, #3 was simple saltwater. Throw beer and ice in a cooler, throw in some salt and as the salt helps the ice melts faster, the mixture chills the beer.

They decided that saltwater was the easiest and most economical method, but obviously that doesn't work in the desert.