The key to being successful at beer involves a few main components, mainly of course being
less successful at other areas in life.
First you have to drink a lot of them, no one respects a person who doesn’t drink
a lot of beer.
Second, patchy facial hair, and flannel shirts contribute to being a beer dude.
And finally a dedicated beverage container, that keeps your beer separated from the gross
nutritional content of refrigerated food, like cheese whiz, that can of whip cream,
and ketchup with crust.
So when NewAir, a company that specializes in keeping the business separated from the
pleasure, asked if I wanted to review a beer fridge I basically cried.
Not only had I got a ton of requests for appliance reviews, I could suddenly put growlers, bombers,
2x4, cans, half drank mason jars, bottles, 40s all in the same wonderful place- something
I’ve wanted since I’ve been a child.
Now the Beer Fridge they sent me specifically is the 126 can beer fridge “beers of the
world” edition.
With some lettering on the outside, reminding you of all the different styles of beer you
can purport to be in to these days.
You can be the Pretty much lately I’ve been only into lambec’s kind of guy.
And if I said beers of the world and you thought NUH Uh NOT IN MY FRIDGE just fill it with
Busch Light, cover it with stickers, and get blackout drunk.
I mean they also make some that are just plain on the outside.
So why beer fridge, and not just load up your main fridge with only beer- well I’m glad
you asked.
Well among the insufferable things people talk about in the beer community is what temperature
to keep your beer at.
Room temperature, so cold the can bursts…
The simple answer is it depends on the beer.
If it has the word Ice or Premium in the name, as low as you can get without the can freezing.
But craft beer somewhere in between 45-55 depending on the beer.
Different if you’re aging it… but since I have no interest in debating people about
it- 45 seems like a good temperature to me.
I’ll let it sit out a few minutes, if I feel like it.
Now of course you know that anything above 40 degrees on a standard fridge is inviting
your food not named Michelob to give you a special types of hangovers known as E Coli,
Botulism, or Salonella.
Which is why any jerk that ever claims to know more about beer than anyone else needs
a beer fridge.
The Newair fridge has an internal area made of dark plastic, so it always looks clean,
a LED light to illuminate your beers during the 3am Saturday section of your weekend bender,
and a dial that goes from 1-7.
1 being the warmest at 50 degrees and 7 being the coldest at 32 degrees.
I recommend buying a cheap temperature gauge to dial it in… because it doesn’t have
a precise temperature control.
I have a cheap one on order from Amazon, so I can start drinking beer correctly.
The front is of course glass and double paned, so everyone can see how much you intend on
drinking.
Probably the hardest part is determining the shelf layout… if you only do 12 ounce cans
it can store 126.
I don’t think I’ve ever had that much beer.
And of course less if you store odd bottle sizes.
One of the great things about this, you can fit at least two growlers in the bottom…
and if you’ve ever drank in a motel you know that a lot of mini fridges don’t have
growler space.
You get 5 beverage racks, 3 full size, and 2 half sizes.
This is a traditional style of beer fridge, so it uses a compressor.
I didn’t find it too loud, website says 39db.
When I’m sitting at my work bench I can hear some light noises from it occasionally.
Let’s call it a just a regular mostly quiet modern fridge.
The fridge is warrantied for one year, shipping is free, and you have a 30 day money back
guarantee.
Check below the video for links.
Thanks to New Air for donating this fridge to the channel.
It is obviously the new centerpiece to my temporary beer collection.
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