Freezing cans of beer to use as ice packs

[gibbin82]

As the thread title has anyone frozen their cans of beer to use as ice packs?, if anyone has I wondered does it ruin the beer or do the cans explode in the freezer or when thawing out? Any feedback appreciated as it is something I am considering doing this year if it works.

[Bigjonyr]

You'll loose most of if not all the fizz so I'd give it a miss.

[fatyeti24]

yeah if your cans don't burst your beer will be rank

[pie_and_a_pint]

It goes as flat as a pancake once it's thawed

[ThomThomDrum]

Use 1lt sport bottles of water....

[coma girl]

We accidentally left a can of beer in the freezer overnight and it exploded and covered the freezer in lager flavour slush puppy. Better to use water or fruit juice.

[gibbin82]

Thanks for the feedback, I can understand it might affect the flavour but don't see how it makes it go flat as surely the CO2 will not be able to escape and should put the fizz back into the cans when they thaw out. Might do a bit of experimenting this week, prepare for a exploding beer ruined my freezer thread.

[DingleDongleDoody]

Cans of Brothers festival strength cider freeze solid with out bursting open and are fine when defrosted.

[Spindles]

Some brands burst, some never do. Interesting fact. There is probably a website somewhere about it.

I use frozen water which I take in and then just stick cans under the groundsheet, works surprisingly well at keeping beer cool, even in cold years.

[gibbin82]

Cans of Brothers festival strength cider freeze solid with out bursting open and are fine when defrosted.

[thenitgoesoff]

Frozen bags of wine (white or rose), keeps other drinks cold and is nice and chilled after a day or two.

[pie_and_a_pint]

Frozen bags of wine (white or rose), keeps other drinks cold and is nice and chilled after a day or two.

[thenitgoesoff]

Ive normally just taken the bag out of the box and bunged it straight in the freezer, it doesn't seem to expand too much, it does take a full day to freeze. But I last did it for kendal calling last summer and had perfectly chilled wine on the Sunday after arriving on Thursday, and kept food and other drink chilled.

Defo worth doing

[gibbin82]

Lots of mixed experiences on here, also did a search on the Internet and again a lot of differing opinion. As for experimenting found these two pages.

http://www.livingoverland.com/2011/08/freezing-beer-for-your-cooler.html

http://cockeyed.com/science/freezer_explosion/freezer_explosion1.html

[justperfect]

This frozen bag of wine thing is very interesting. I might give this a blast. If you're planning on doing a trial run freezing kopperburg cider please share your results with the class.

[Bathimp]

I normally use the 1.5l bottles of water as freezer packs

Will seriously consider the wine bags though. I suppose it has to be white wine = hangover!

[Bigjonyr]

I think the fizz will go due to the cans deforming when the liquid expands.

[fur_q]

As said above with a can of larger the can will often explode when freezing and if not the beer will be flat when it defrosts.

You can, however freeze cans of bitter that have widgets (like Boddingtons or John Smiths) this is because the gas stored in the widget

[chestwig]

Where can you get a decent sized cool box?

[Bathimp]

Where can you get a decent sized cool box?

[MissC]

I freeze bottles of 3/4 water and then each day add the wine (or vodka mix) as needed each day. Ice cold drinks all the time.