At half nine, as per usual, a member of staff placed a bottle of Dos Equis beer in the freezer for me. I like, after a 16 hour shift, a freezing cold beer. Who honestly doesn't?

I just opened my beer, which I found laying on its side, took a mouthful, and felt the cold, refreshing beauty of it in me gob. When I placed the beer on the desk, with a bit of a thud, the beer instantly froze solid. All of it.

I remember reading about this on the BBC website some time ago, and thinking, blimey, I'd like to see that, that sounds dead good that. But now I've seen it, I'm fucking furious. I just want my beer.

Fuck off, science.

Just breathe on it. You've got enough hot air to melt a glacier--a beer should be pan comida for you.

How fucking DARE YOU.

Hang on. That worked. Apologies.

How the hell long was it in the freezer? If I'm desperate for cold beer, and am a particular summer fan of Dos Equis, I shouldn't have to have a room temp beer in a freezer for more than an hour. I'd call Mythbusters.

It was an already cold beer kept in a freezer for an hour and a half or so.

www.bbc.co.uk/bang/handson/super_cool.shtml

an already cold beer in a freezer for 90 mins is pretty damned cold beer...

The link is all a bit much - an old girlfriend gave me a clever way to quickly cool a beer.

Get a paper towel, get it wet and then wrap it around beer bottle - put in freezer and your beer is cold in much shorter time.

I'm sure there is a perfectly logical scientific explanation for it, but I prefer to think of it as magic.

Nucleation is the keyword.

It's certainly impressive. Also highly annoying if you're gagging for a cold beer.

Wow. Cool.

Oh, and supercooling as well.

An Aussie once told me a — possibly apocryphal — method of cooling down beer.

You basically bury it in sand, then pour some petrol (or similar) on top of it and set it on fire. Is this true? Has anyone seen this done?

I did much the same the other day. I even posted a picture on facebook. I think EIM is biting my moves.

Metafilter says no; also describes method to chill in two minutes.

It's a murky subject this.

For example, hot water can freeze faster than cold water.