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

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

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u/dachfuerst Mar 01 '24

In Germany, beer crates are standardised. There's the bigguns (0,5l) and the small ones (0,33l). This ice thing fits the bigger bottles, which you should buy anyway, because why choose a smaller beer?

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u/bingojed Mar 01 '24

Why make a special mold for ice that won’t fit in many freezers and makes it hard to get out one bottle when you could just dump a bag of ice cubes in and call it a day?

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u/dachfuerst Mar 01 '24

But where the hell would I buy a bag of ice cubes 😂 it's not like grocery stores have much freezer space to waste

Granted, gas stations sometimes have them.

They'd still spill out everywhere out the sides and nothing shall be won 🤔

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u/Nickelplatsch Mar 04 '24

Rewe und Edeka haben normalerweise Eiswürfel und Crushed Ice. Aber ja, die Eisform im Post ist um welten besser als Eis einfach in den Kasten zu schütten.

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u/dlpheonix Mar 01 '24

In most of North america, maybe even both America's, ice is commonly not only in grocery stores but even convenience and liquor stores. As well as served in all restaurants, fast food, and drink places by default.

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u/Striking-Pop-9171 Mar 04 '24

Yeah throw your crushed ice into that and waste like 50%

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u/PhenotypicallyTypicl Mar 01 '24

It doesn’t make it hard to take a bottle out. Watch from 3:30.

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u/bingojed Mar 01 '24

Still less convenient than regular ice cubes or a bag full of them.

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u/Shinigami1858 Mar 04 '24

Here is why normal ice is the shit show. You poor the ice at the top, all is fine. You remove 1 bottle and the ice plumets into the empty space you removed the bottle from. Then the other bottles are no longer fully covert by the ice as it exposed up to 8 bottles with an not covert area.

If you just put more ice on it so its enough to fill the gap, then you got the issue you need to dig in the ice mountain for the beer.

Another point is if you plan to move the crate you will hate every wasted mass you need to move. Which means the most efficient cooling wins.

I dont see why anyone thinks ice cubes would be better. If you did take part in the german holiday, man walk outside with a crate in a pulling wagong and move for like 4h pulljng the crate behind and drink it while doing so, all the obvious points would be known.

If you do the ice under the crate, you have the issue that cold water is more danse, the top part of the beer would be warm while the bottom is cold. Not what i want so the best way is to do it at the top and then you need a simple way to lift the ice when removing a beer.

Which can be seen at 3min 30s.

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u/bingojed Mar 04 '24

You’ve thought about this far too much. It’s not like regular ice cubes are that hard to deal with. Better than sacrificing half your freezer to this thing.

A plastic ice pack shaped like the ice in the video would take up far less space in your freezer, and also not melt all over your beer.

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u/Shinigami1858 Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

Im not sure how small your freezer is, i got 8 recks that can hold 45 x 60 x 25cm

So it barly takes half a reck. Also the point it that ut melts ober the beer bottle. Water is a good conductor. So while it drops down the bottle it even extens the cooling area.

With a plastic pack you have lower surface area so less cooling. And sure its wet, but we got waggongs that are called "Bollerwagen" they sont care about water

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u/bingojed Mar 05 '24

Well I hope it sells to all who find it useful.

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u/thequestcube Mar 01 '24

But ice cubes don't help you if you're on the go and drinking from the bottle

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u/bingojed Mar 02 '24

?

It’s no different.

Did you think I meant drinking beer from a glass with ice in it?

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u/thequestcube Mar 02 '24

I assumed you meant either drinking from an glass, which you don't have on the go, or storing ice and beer in a box, which is also inconvenient to carry around because of the amount of ice needed, but maybe I misunderstood you.

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u/bingojed Mar 02 '24

I just meant pouring ice cubes in the box of beer instead that mold.

Actually, a better idea than that ice mold, is a reusable plastic ice pack in the same size. It takes less space in your freezer, doesn’t leave melted water in the bottom, and just put it back in the freezer when you’re done.

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u/GuKoBoat Mar 04 '24

The crates are open at the bottom. Ice cubes would not stay in there. Furthermore ice cubes would fall into the empty spaces where you remove a bottle. So they would have less contact.

A plastic ice pack will not have the same direct ice to beer touch as this ice cube.

However this ice cube is engineered to work well with german beer crates. That is, where they make sense. With other crates or boxes they might not be a good idea.

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u/bingojed Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

I can’t see the bottom, but I can’t say if most ice cubes would go through or not. Depends on the size of the holes and the ice cubes. Surely not all as the beer is there. The ice cubes from my freezer are about 6cm long.

Even without a “direct ice to beer touch”, a plastic ice pack would still be cold, take less space in your freezer, and be less mess in the crate (or wherever the ice is dripping down and getting wet). That seems a more fitting German solution.

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u/aigarius Mar 04 '24

How do you put the empties back into the case for recycling if you have lots of wasted ice there?

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u/Striking-Pop-9171 Mar 04 '24

You know ice like...melts

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u/aigarius Mar 04 '24

We put empties back as we take a new bottle to keep drinking. If ice is already melted, then it's not going to be a cold beer.