A cool trick to quick-cool the beer on the 4th of July ( any day for that
matter) is to sacrifice one co2 extinguisher by putting the beer down the
extinguisher horn and discharging. Gets the job done. Of course you have to
recharge the co2 cylinder again, be we are talking dealing with serious
emergency thirst here in this case.

John Rodgers
"88GL Driver

David Beierl wrote:

> At 08:01 AM 1/25/2000 -0600, John Rodgers wrote:
> >I think I am am going to go the way of GMBulley...and get a CO2
> >Extinguisher. Does a good job of taking the oxygen away as well as cools
>
> Just for interest for you folks who haven't used a CO2 extinguisher -- the
> only way to make sure they stay full is to weigh them periodically.  And in
> use, when they start to make a hollow roaring noise they're empty, time to
> grab the next one.  And of course don't get your hand in the spray unless
> you like dry, icy fingers.
>
> david
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
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