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Why isn't beer served with ice? Well, the main reason is, the beer will get watered down as the ice melts – it's a problem that also extends to drinks that are served on the rocks, even though the coldness of the ice may help them to go down smoother. That's where the Beyond Zero system comes in. Instead of making ice cubes out of water, it makes them out of booze.
Invented by Kentucky-based entrepreneur Jason Sherman, the system actually consists of two devices – the Liquor Ice Maker and the Liquor Ice Storage Unit.
A liquor of the user's choice is first poured into the Maker, where it's cooled well below the temperature reached by a regular freezer, and formed into cubes. Exactly how that's accomplished is a trade secret, although the process takes just a matter of minutes.
Whiskey slushie, anyone?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday May 27 2017, @01:08PM
For all we know tho there is a giant tank of something standing in the closet under the machine. We are just seeing the business end of it sort of like a beertap or soda machine at any restaurant. We are not seeing the big tanks of ingredients. So there might as well be an industrial sized canister of something hidden away or a compressor, even tho I would think Richy Richy doesn't want to hear the sound of a compressor everytime he is chilling his drinks with boozecubes (or whatever we should call them) -- that said looking at the picture it doesn't even look like the machine is actually making ice cubes but instead some sort of ice ellipse blobs.
One wonders if there is some kind of gauge or button depending on what you put in, after all Vodka - Beer and Wine have very different freezing points. You could freeze Beer and Wine at home with much issue so the freezing point there is just a few degrees below zero (C) (depending on how solid said freezing is). To make it easy you could just freeze everything to Vodka levels but that might be excessive, take more time then needed etc.