No outdoor event is quite complete without refreshing, ice chilled beer. For many individuals, clearing extra space in the kitchen refrigerator or filling a pack of coolers with ice will suffice for a backyard barbecue or other household event. Event planners however, are usually better off through a less ad hoc approach of storing and cooling beer, like a beer cooler fridge.
It can be appealing to simply use many coolers with ice as an inexpensive solution. However using such ice coolers can present serious limitations. For example, many of the coolers on the market have a rather limited storage capacity that is further decreased by the need to keep it stocked with ice.
So for all but the smallest functions, it may be necessary to alternate the coolers, considering it can use up to 20 minutes to chill bottled beer adequately. This act of repeatedly cycling and reshuffling the coolers with the chilled beer and leaving those with the beer still cooling adds a significant organisational difficulty to the catering team. In a busy event, the odds of the rotation system breaking down increase greatly, triggering a situation where no cold beer is available at all!
It is therefore much preferable to have on hand a large beer cooler fridge. The capacity of such iceboxes is far larger than most ice-based cooling systems, so restocking it can be spaced out at much longer intervals. Using a beer cooler fridge does not essentially dismiss the use of Ice coolers either.
Most event coordinators realize that the sight of beer bottles on a bed of ice is rather aesthetically appealing. It also saves the catering workers time, because the patrons can see exactly what is available and simply take the product that pleases them. As the ice bed runs low, shifting the already chilled beer from the beer cooler fridge is not challenging, as the bottles will already be chilled.
But what about rotation? It is much simpler to monitor what beer is already chilled and which is not. Rather than going cooler by cooler, the catering team can simply take the chilled beer from the lowest rack in the beer cooler, and then replace them with warm beer.
As they work their way up, they can continue to substitute the chilled bottles with warm ones as each shelf is cleared. As soon as the top rack has been used, they can start at the bottom again. Considering that even mid sized beer coolers usually hold more than 50 bottles per shelf, by the time they have worn down the supply of chilled beer, the replacement bottles ought to be totally chilled.
So for reduced weight, ease of transport, and simpler stock changing, a mobile beer cooler is clearly the most effective solution for coordinators of large events.
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