Beer freezing instantly
It’s not often that I get to tag a blog entry with the beer AND science categories, but here it goes.
A colleague of mine sent a very cool video of a beer freezing instantly, by merely tapping it on a counter. Of course, the beer was super-freezed by a liquid nitrogen bath.
Now, not everyone has liquid nitrogen laying around the home. However, if you have a lime, you can do a similar experiment. Here are the steps.
- Stick a Corona in the freezer for 30 minutes or however long it takes to fully cool.
- Take it out and pop open the bottle.
- Take a lime and squish it into the mouth of the bottle, makings sure to squeeze copious amounts of lime juice into the beer itself.
- Watch the beer freeze just like this video and become useless.
While you wait for the Corona to thaw, go grab a good Belgian beer and perhaps you’ll forget about that Corona. Note that a good beer does not require a lime.
My only explanation for this is that the freezing temperature of beer is below that of water. So, the water from the lime hits the colder-than-freezing alcohol and causes the water to freeze.
Thanks John for the and thanks Jen for the correction. Of course Liquidnet nitrogen would not lock up a beer, as it would only promote flow ;-)