The Beer Froster: It's Exactly What You Think It Is

The Beer Froster is one of those devices that's pretty easy to review. The Beer Froster is manufactured by Summit Appliances, a company that makes industrial fridges and freezers, like the kind you'd find holding Fanta or Ben & Jerry's at your local convenience store. There's just enough alcohol in beer to keep it from freezing at this temperature, but if you throw higher-alcohol barleywines or strong Belgian ales inside, you could go one notch colder. Low-alcohol beers and unfiltered microbrews are harder to get super-cold – pushing the temperature too far south will crack the bottles and rupture the cans, resulting in an icy, sticky, frothy and dangerously sharp mess. I put a couple of bottles of Bear Republic IPA inside – about 7 percent alcohol – and set the temperature at 30 degrees.