How to Chill a Hot Beer in 3 Minutes

Here is how he took beer from 80+ degrees to (seemingly) 40 degrees in about 3 minutes.

1. He took 6 hot beers from my garage and he placed them into a steel pot from the kitchen


2. He tossed in enough ice cubes to completely cover the beer


3. He then filled the pot with water


4. Next, and this is the trick, he tossed in (what must have been) 2 cups of table salt.


5. He took a large wooden spoon and stirred this thing up to be sure the salt dissolved.


6. He placed the concoction into the freezer and in 3 minutes we had ice cold beer.

Frankly, I wish I knew about this little trick years ago. Apparently this works for wine, soda, or anything. The addition of the salt does something that I am admittedly not qualified to explain.