SpinChill: Cold Beer in 60 Seconds

SpinChillTake two really smart Mechanical Engineers from the University of Florida, give them a luke warm beer and they come up with a brilliant idea. They used their knowledge of engineering, heat transfer and their love of cold beer to come up with the SpinChill.

They found that cooling a container of liquid in a tub of ice took much longer than if that container was constantly spinning. The reason for this has to do with heat transfer. If the container is just sitting in the ice the outside layer of the liquid cools and it insulates the inner liquid which slows down the overall cooling process. By spinning the container it allows the warm liquid in the center to reach the outer edge where it can be cooled instantly.

You would think that by spinning a can of a carbonated beverage it would make it explode and spray everywhere upon opening. Again, these guys are pretty smart and go into great detail on their site about the difference between shaking a can and spinning one. We won’t go into that amount of detail in this post, but trust us, it won’t explode. Immediately after spinchill-ing your beverage, you can open the can and have a nice refreshingly cold beverage in 60 seconds.

One of the things we wondered about was bottled beverages. It says on their site: “The Spin Chill quickly cools almost any container of beer, soda, or wine by spinning it in ice.” But they don’t show it being used with any bottled beverage. For $29.99 you can own one of these now, or for $12.00 you can buy just their “Chill Bit” which has an adapter to run off of your own drill.

via Gadgeteer

Corkcicle One helps your wine remain cool in an innovative manner

corkcicle-oneWhen it comes to wine, this is one subject matter that is practically inexhaustible in nature. With so many different wines in the market, not to mention their rich and storied history, it would virtually take a lifetime to figure everything out, and by then, you would not have learned all there is to it. I say just pay good money and enjoy your wine, and leave all the knowledge to other folks to think about. One thing about wines though, is you would need to keep them well chilled in order to draw the best flavor. Here is a unique tool that can help you out in your quest – the £34.99 Corkcicle One.

The Corkcicle One holds the distinction of being the first in-bottle wine chilling cork in the world. It basically will aerate as you pour, which further enhances the aroma of your tipple. Apart from that, each purchase of the Corkcicle One would be accompanied by its very own extravagant glass freezer case, allowing it to cool your wine to absolute perfection. It is a surefire method to turn wine snobs green with envy the next time they drop by your pad for a party or dinner. Not only that, the Corkcicle One would also do away with wet ice buckets and unsightly cooling sleeves.
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SolarCooler Keeps Your Brews Icy With The Power Of The Sun, But It’ll Cost You $1K

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Every year at CES, the Eureka Park outpost where they stick the scrappy startups is the best damn part of the whole shindig. This is where all the people with a screw loose or a decided lack of good common sense come to peddle their spaghetti-cooking robot or aroma-powered computer – or, as happened this year, their solar-powered beer cooler.

SolarCooler is a “world first,” which is a common epithet at Eureka Park, and it’s currently undergoing crowdfunding on Indiegogo. The startup is looking for $150,000 to make their portable refrigerator (it even makes ice!) a reality, but it’s currently looking like it’ll need a real groundswell of support to get there.

Here’s the big issue: the entry-level model costs just under $1,000, and that’s a special backer-only price. Retail for the SolarCooler is $1,200, which is bound to be a bitter pill to swallow even for the most ardent of tailgaters. Still, this is essentially a solar-powered 12V battery backup for everything combined with a cooler that offers true, continuous refrigeration, so that price tag starts to look at lot more reasonable when you consider its other potential uses.

It also has a lot of potential to help out in commercial and medical settings as a transport for goods that need to be kept cool when direct power is in scarce supply and loading up a device with a significant number of batteries would make it cumbersome to use.

SolarCooler is pursuing a flex funding goal, meaning it walks away with whatever it raises, and the founder seems keen on building it whatever the outcome, but there are still over 40 days left in the campaign, so it could still turn into a Cinderella story. All I know is I like beer, and I like it cold (that ‘best served at room temperature stuff’ is BS) so SolarCooler makes sense to me.

‘Garlic’ Black Beer is Not for Weak Stomachs (or Vampires)

It seems like we’re a little late in discovering the Aomori Garlic Black Beer, what with the month of scares having just ended and all. It’s a brew that was picked up by the folks at Rocket News 24 to taste and review – and maybe ward off a couple of vampires in the process? (Take that, Buffy!)

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The unusual booze is produced in the Aomori prefecture, which is Japan’s leading garlic producer. The label boasts that it uses “black garlic extract” in the fermentation process.

On a side note, wouldn’t it be ironic but strangely appropriate if you laid a couple of these bottles to rest in those coffin wine bottle holders that made the rounds a few weeks ago, just in time for Halloween? You’re better off stocking these in a proper cooler like the ones from KingsBottle though, because everyone knows that lukewarm beer is no good at all.

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Tastewise, the reviewer described it as tasting like regular beer – until the strong, pungent flavor of raw garlic rose up and overpowered her senses. If you’ve ever eaten gyoza before, then just imagine the aftertaste that you get after eating a plateful of it, but with an intensity about ten times over. Yep, that’s what this beer tastes like.

Does this sound like something you’d like to drink?

[via Foodbeast]

MaCool Drink Cooler: Sad Mac? Well There’s Your Problem

There are hacks out there which transform the original Macintosh into an aquarium, or the original iMac into a pet bed. But those require that you have an actual computer shell you’re willing to part ways with. Here’s another fun design that looks like an old Macintosh, but it doesn’t make you tear apart a vintage computer.

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The MaCool is a thermal insulated carrier that looks like an original Apple Macintosh. It’ll keep cold drinks cold or hot food hot, and holds up to 8 drink cans and ice. As an added bonus, it’s guaranteed never to eat your 3.5″ floppy disks.

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Here’s an amusing clip of the creator of the MaCool bringing it in to the Genius Bar for repair:

You can pledge to order the MaCool insulated cooler over at Kickstarter for $59(USD).

Mini Keg Cooler with Tap

There is nothing quite like sipping on an ice cold bottle of your favorite beer, when you are simply chilling out by the pool or on the verandah in peace and quiet, while your loved ones are all around. Life is complete and beautiful then, isn’t it? Since we are all creatures who always feel as though there is always “more” on the horizon, perhaps that earlier picture as described would not be complete without the $199.99 Mini Keg Cooler with Tap? Yes sir, the idea of getting one of these might prove to be extremely enticing, since a full-sized keg happens to be far too large for your next party or cookout, so why not just use a 5-liter keg and place it in the handy Mini Keg Cooler with Tap instead?

The Mini Keg Cooler with Tap will boast of state-of-the-art thermoelectric cooling technology, ensuring that it works just fine, ensuring your drinks within remain ice cold at all times without creating a racket, and neither does it vibrate until you feel that there is a tremor in your surroundings due to a faraway earthquake. This cooler has also been certified to be environmentally friendly and CFC free, and it can be plugged into an AC outlet or better yet – the cigarette lighter of your car. Just don’t drink and drive, but your passengers sure will have a smashing good time!
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USB-Powered Neck Cooler Seems Perfect To Beat The Summer Heat

This USB-powered neck cooler can help you beat the summer heat, as long as you can withstand the stares you’ll get.

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Tama-chan Watermelon Cooler

Tama chan Watermelon CoolerAll right, what you see above is obviously weird. Very! We are talking about the Tama-chan watermelon cooler, which would definitely find a market in Japan. After all, folks living in Japan love nothing better to do than to eat some chilled watermelon during the sweltering summers, so it makes perfect sense to see a device like this being put up on the market. The Tama-chan watermelon cooler is the brainchild of Japanese company Joybond, and you will not even need a portable power source since it runs off your vehicle’s cigarette lighter socket. In addition, the Tama-chan will also double up as a heater as and when required, making it useful both in the summer and during the winter.

Just in case you were wondering whether this is the first thing to do with watermelons on our site, there were other instances in the past, going way back to seven years back, to as recent as last year where one is able to use one’s mind to explode watermelons. Cool, no?

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This May Look Like a Vintage Basket, but It’s Also a Cooler [Daily Desired]

Coolers: often ugly, frequently necessary. You can get a styrofoam piece of junk that you’re going to spend $3 on only to throw away later, or you could spend $50 or more on a hunk of ugly plastic that will sit in your garage nine months of the year collecting cobwebs. Those aren’t your only options, however. These lovely baskets actually hide coolers inside. More »