Lukewarm beer. Can't stand it. It's about time someone did something about it. Apparently someone just has: enter Kent Hodgson, the 22-year-old inventor from New Zealand. He invented a device - about the size and shape of a pen - that can chill 30 330ml bottles of beer.
The device - which he dubbed Huski - uses dry ice as its coolant, and has four times the cooling capacity of ice. The device won't dilute the drink at all like ice does and cools the drink instantly. He thought of everything, this genius. Absolute genius.
Here's how he describes his invention (after the words "extremely simple" which makes one wonder why no one thought of it earlier):
You have plastic cooling cells which are pressed down into the dock which houses the liquid carbon dioxide. The liquid CO2 expands and is pressurized into dry ice in the base of the cooling cells ... in a moment. You then pop it into your drink and then proceed from there as you normally would.
Hodgson came up with the idea when he and his friends brought a box of warm beer to a barbecue. They had to put the bottles in a freezer and that's where he came up with the idea: "I thought how cool would it be if we could replicate that. I mean, no one likes warm beer or a diluted drink and I was inspired."
Think of the possibilities. More space in the fridge for pizza! Oh yeah, and no more hauling ice around for beer. Hodgson explains that one canister can chill 30 bottles for about 7 cents each. He hopes to patent the device and retail it for around US 50. Beer is an inspiration for us all.
The device - which he dubbed Huski - uses dry ice as its coolant, and has four times the cooling capacity of ice. The device won't dilute the drink at all like ice does and cools the drink instantly. He thought of everything, this genius. Absolute genius.
Here's how he describes his invention (after the words "extremely simple" which makes one wonder why no one thought of it earlier):
You have plastic cooling cells which are pressed down into the dock which houses the liquid carbon dioxide. The liquid CO2 expands and is pressurized into dry ice in the base of the cooling cells ... in a moment. You then pop it into your drink and then proceed from there as you normally would.
Hodgson came up with the idea when he and his friends brought a box of warm beer to a barbecue. They had to put the bottles in a freezer and that's where he came up with the idea: "I thought how cool would it be if we could replicate that. I mean, no one likes warm beer or a diluted drink and I was inspired."
Think of the possibilities. More space in the fridge for pizza! Oh yeah, and no more hauling ice around for beer. Hodgson explains that one canister can chill 30 bottles for about 7 cents each. He hopes to patent the device and retail it for around US 50. Beer is an inspiration for us all.
[QJ.net Via nzherald.co.nz]
