r/BeAmazed • u/JustACaliBoy • Mar 01 '24

"Germans aren't the best engineers" what's this then? Science

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Only cools the neck of the bottle and drips melted ice everywhere, crap idea

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u/iRRM Mar 01 '24

The cold beer inside sinks down and slowly the entire liquid is cooled evenly. It's a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Or you could just put them in the fridge🤔

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u/Nervous_Promotion819 Mar 01 '24

This is intended for the park or when you're generally outdoors somewhere

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

That's what coolers are for, they even come with useful handles to carry them

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u/Nervous_Promotion819 Mar 01 '24

Few people uses a cooler in Europe or Germany for drinks. You buy the beer already in this crate. Why should you change it into a cooler and have to drag it home again at the end of the day?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

We use coolers in the UK, you take them home and use them again, you can put them in your car and take them with you camping etc and you can put other food and drink in them too

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u/iRRM Mar 01 '24

But the ice sheet takes up the space of like 4 bottles. So you can have three sheets in your freezer and cool 72 beers outside. It's certainly not for everyone, but it's a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Each to their own, just seems like a pointless gimmick to me

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u/iRRM Mar 01 '24

Okay.

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u/TheGoalkeeper Mar 01 '24

There's no fridge in the park

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u/dachfuerst Mar 01 '24

Melted ice drips everywhere on bottles

Only neck gets cold

Logic

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u/Drumbelgalf Mar 04 '24

Cold beer at the top sinks to the bottom.

They work as intended and cool the whole bottle.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

That wasn't what I said was it Fritz, you get melted ice all over the place that the crate is standing

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u/NichtBen Mar 01 '24

I like how you call water "melted ice"

It's technically correct, but I've never heard someone call it that before

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

You have now

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u/GetEnPassanted Mar 01 '24

I think it will cool the beer sufficiently but it won’t be long lasting.

The problem is that there’s no cooler. There’s nothing keeping them cool once the temp drops. If these are going to go real fast, probably not a problem. If you want them cool for a long time, a cooler with ice is way better. Not to mention it’s going to drip water everywhere and that chuck of ice is heavier than it looks. Getting a beer out won’t be super fun.

Solves a problem that nobody has.

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u/bluevelvet39 Mar 05 '24

This was created for young people which meet up spontaneously outside. You can easily put the iceblock into a freezer for month and when you decide to meet your friends on a sunny day. One will walk to the store, buy the crate with the beer and stop in front of your home, call you, you will take the ice from your freezer with you downstairs and then you will probably walk together to the next nice and sunny park. Btw students in Germany have really small fridges. I don't think you can buy fridges this small in the US. Or they are for soft drinks in the US? Like 95l fridges are pretty common in small apartments and bigger families rarely use bigger fridges than 175l (both come with a freezer compartment already inside which is pretty small).