This beer freezer is designed to keep your beer chilled to the optimal temperature, which is apparently 24 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s below freezing, so you’ll have a frosted bottle waiting for you at all times if you get one. It all sounds well and good, but if you serve a beer too cold you won’t be able to taste it. If you’re the type of dude who drinks “American-style light lagers” (i.e. Bud Light, Miller Light, Coors Light), and you like your beer to be almost painfully cold, this will be just great for you. But if you like, you know, good beers served properly, you’ll want to stick with a standard fridge.
In fact, the coldest a beer should be served is 40-45 degrees for lagers such as pilsners. That’s about standard fridge temp, for you folks keeping track at home. Darker lagers and wheat beers should be served at around 48 degrees, and ales should be served at about 50-55 degrees, which means you should take those out of the fridge and let them sit for a few minutes before drinking. Belgian beers, the granddaddies of delicious brews, should be served closer to room temperature. As someone who’s been served a freezing-cold Belgian ale at a restaurant before, I can attest to the fact that nothing ruins a good $9 beer like over-chilling.
So yeah, the Cold Cavern Beer Froster might seem like the way a Coors Light ad would want you to drink your beer, but in actuality it’ll freeze the flavor right out of any type of beer you put into it, not to mention making you look like a freewheeling drunkard to anyone who comes over to your place. The functional alcoholicsbeer experts here at Gizmodo implore you: stay away from this thing. [Product Page viaGadget Lab | Helium.com]
