33 replies to this topic

[SitBackRelax]

Take a bucket up with you or buy one there for a couple of £.

Fill the bucket up with water from the taps, then wack in the bucket several cans, do this each day and your drink will be nice and chilled.

[puppetmode]

will you carry that bucket in your rucksack or or just carry it by the handle or are you just going to stay at your tent all day?

Well worth having a nice refreshing tinny though every now and then during next weeks heat wave

[Rufus Gwertigan]

a bit of a waste of water would you not think

[irons]

Under your tent. The black cover keeps it cool and close to the ground. Thieves wont find it either. Handy tip I rarely share.  

[stuartbert two hats]

Easier way. Pay at a bar
EDIT: Not cheaper!  I like your tip

Edited by stuartbert two hats, 19 June 2009 - 11:10 PM.

[nottsmurf]

 irons, on Jun 19 2009, 11:58 PM, said:

Under your tent. The black cover keeps it cool and close to the ground. Thieves wont find it either. Handy tip I rarely share.  

Great tip for hot weather.

Almost guarantees a cool can when you return to your tent.

[rabid]

Drink it quickly.

[puppetmode]

 irons, on Jun 19 2009, 11:58 PM, said:

Under your tent. The black cover keeps it cool and close to the ground. Thieves wont find it either. Handy tip I rarely share.  

thats more like it. Cheers.

Bar indeed. were not all made of money.  

[abu hamster]

Put it in your fridge!    




Campers you knows it makes sense1

[chuckley]

bring a cool bag and iced water bottles.

[Snodgrass]

i've tried the bucket method and it never seems to work?

[ministe2003]

 irons, on Jun 19 2009, 11:58 PM, said:

Under your tent. The black cover keeps it cool and close to the ground. Thieves wont find it either. Handy tip I rarely share.  

great shout!  You could also get one of those insulated can holders.  They keep cool stuff cool and warm stuff warm.

[sammysundae]

did you know that because a can is pressurised, when you open it, the pressure (and therefore energy) inside the can is released and this should chill the can a few more degrees.

me and my mate foudn this out the hard way. we tried to quickly chill a few cans in the freezer, but forgot about them and froze them solid. we picked two out a few hours later. they were frozen solid, but when we opened them, they froze to our hands cos they got much colder. it was pretty painful, but ridiculously funny.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

 rabid, on Jun 20 2009, 12:29 AM, said:

Drink it quickly.

I used to drink Wrongbow at festivals, mainly because it tastes just as shit warm as it does cold

Edited by Rufus Gwertigan, 20 June 2009 - 12:16 PM.

[MrMac]

 ministe2003, on Jun 20 2009, 12:55 PM, said:

They keep cool stuff cool and warm stuff warm.

But how do they know...?


Can any 'old school' Soccer AM fans think of thermoses yet without adding "two cups of coffee and a choc-ice"?

[sweaver]

i have frozen a load of capri suns so they will surround all my cans etc and should keep them cool for a few days.  Bringing one of those cool boxes too which we have insulated more with bubblewrap - not sure if that is going to help though.  Plan to be buying drinks there on sat/sun so they will be cool  

[Laura_Babs]

Last year I froze my plastic bottles of spirit mixers and they probably didn't warm up properly until Saturday afternoon.

Crate of beer I kept cool with a silver space blanket around it.

[old fence jumper]

 Laura_Babs, on Jun 20 2009, 01:41 PM, said:

Last year I froze my plastic bottles of spirit mixers and they probably didn't warm up properly until Saturday afternoon.

Crate of beer I kept cool with a silver space blanket around it.

just drink it all until it has time to warm up

[dvjj]

Ok here's my tip... I have in my freezer at the moment 45 cans of strongbow in boxes marked with a 2 and 20 Vodka and fruit juice (various flavours made up and frozen two weeks ago) early on Tuesday I will put in the other 30 strongbow that are sitting in the kitchen in the boxes marked 1. We drink the boxes marked 1 first and the boxes marked 2 after, last year they were still very cold on Sunday, not holding out hope past Saturday morning this year as the weather is going to be much warmer.

Last year out of 72 cans 4 popped/exploded they were still drinkable though slightly flat (We are not fussy!)

[dogbiscuit]

Great, I think I will try that, but can you not buy bags of ice from anywhere?