After the Q & A, Jamie and Adam {of Mythbusters} did what they do best. They experimented.
This being Milwaukee, they had four volunteers come up on stage and gave each a cooler and a can of beer. They made one a control, gave one a cooler of ice, the second a cooler of ice and water, and the third a cooler of ice, water and salt. After five minutes, the beer was tested and - just like the show - the cooler with the ice/salt/water mix had the coldest beer.
But Jamie and Adam never stop there. A myth - or a demonstration - isn't complete until it's over-the-top. So they took the last can of beer, stuck it in a 5-gallon bucket, and blasted it with the contents of five fire extinguishers. Naturally, this can of beer was the coldest.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Mythbusters Live at the Pabst Theater
Amy Pawlak gets starstruck and learns a better way to keep beer cold, all in the same evening: