What does a broke college kid do for beer cooler?

Me and my FSU room-mates have alot of parties and we quickly realized we needed a beer cooler. The cheap ass apartment complex that milks us for 1600 dollars every month use crappy appliances that break all the time. So we find replaced ovens and driers every day.

We grabbed this oven, and took off the non essentials, then used dividers and bam, the ceramic oven keeps ice cold for 25 hours!!!!!

my shitty ass pin striping tells you i'm still learning, but it's great practice!!!

I'll try to keep this when i graduate and use it in my future garage when i get a house.

what kind of weird beer coolers do you beatniks use?

 

Dear Seminole,

The semester I went to FSU we ate Krispy Kremes and drank Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill because the gas stations charged 99 cents a bottle (damn computers don't even have cents signs anymore) and was cheaper than beer. Now that I am a professional man, I spent $79 and got my college aged kids a dorm room refrig and didn't ask what they kept cold. Still,I admire your ingenuity. And keep up the striping practice. If you're drinking and striping, have a designated driver keep track of which bottle is which. Beer is a lousy striping material.

 

Back when I was in High School, a buddy of mine had an old Cordoba. We got a wild hair one day and cut the top off it with a Sawzall, filled the back floorboards with about 50lbs of ice and a couple cases of beer and hit the gravel roads. Those were the days...

 

I bought a dirty shitty fridge and a keg/reg/CO2 set up.

16 gallons is a lot of beer and it stays 38*

I think ill have a pint of Shiner right now.

 

some places up here just started getting Shiner Bock, good stuff.

i bought a cheap coleman cooler to take on the road with me. thing hardly stays cold for an hour or two let alone 25 probably a bit easier to move around though nice project!

 

My friends and I have used a bathtub full of ice. My friends and i figured no one would need to take a bath during our parties.

 

Now that I think about it, an oven would be idea for a cooler. Is that a GG allin referance with the drink fight and fuck?

 

d.f.f
words to live by.

 

yeah, it works great, my room mate is a physics student so he was quick to agree with me the cooling potential since an oven has to keep shit hot.

the drink fight fuck i stole from that belt buckle that Felon clothing company makes.

it's a belt buckle shaped like brass knuckles with the 3 words on it.

it's our CREED!!!

we got 6 girls naked in the hot tub last weekend, but we had to spend a shit load on all the pary stuff. oh well.

 

i got an old aluminum cooler with a cool,old,peeled 'solid aluminum rust-proof' sticker on it at the thrift store i work at for $4.it's awesome
creepy

 

ok fellow cheesehead...you ever buy huber bock.....when I was in high school we would buy a case fo 3 bucks and change....and the cases were returnable...we got 25 cents back. as for wisconsin...we just buried the beer in the snow....like squirrls have to remember where they left nuts....cheeseheads have to remember where the beer is

 

hehehe

never had the huber bock. i'll give it a try next time i see it. i've had their red and wasn't all that fond of it. i usually stick to leinies or new glarus.

hooray for thread hijacking!

 

but what do i know i drink lacrosse lager

 

man, i never heard of any of those beers you guys are talking about.

but i like hearing how up north you can just put your beer in the snow.

reminds me of my uncle who retired down here recently, he told me about how ice fishing you don't need much ice for the fish. they freeze when he pulls them up in Vermont..

 

Wow...25hrs? When I was in college we never had beers around long enough to let'm get warm.

Ever taste warm Old E or Crazy Horse....yuk.

 

Man we need a little less drinking and partyin and concentrate more on gettin that scoot goin.I will let you keep the 6 naked girls cause everybody likes a naked girl. This is your dad.HeHeHeHe.Anyhow if you drank faster your beer would not get warm.
Shoe

 

Geeze, and here I am using an old aluminum cooler to store a bunch of engine parts, b/c I bought the engine a basket case in the back of another car and needed something to haul the small shit with.. a trip to the junk pile and there was a big metal box.. bingo -

 

Psst. washing machines have a built in drain... and if you find one that stll works... you can wash clothes in it too.

 

One of the neatest(and most discreet)coolers I ever saw was at the Ty-Rods show several years ago.Alcohol is not supposed to be brought in to the show(the sole beer vendor bitched)so this guy drags in a Radio Flyer wagon with his kid sitting in it and on the bottom is bolted a SBC oil pan filled with beer with an access panel under where the kid is sitting!Sort of an early style moonshiner vehicle.

 

I use the spare tire well in the trunk for my on the go ice chest. Usually they have a hole in them already and if not, a quick use of the drill solves the drainage problem...........oldest trick in the book, but still the best!
xxx
Brandy

 

your not the only one. My brother and I got drunk and cut off the top of my 76 cutlass. bad thing was it was my daily driver, and it was a pretty damn nice car. Those were the days, I might have to find me a 200.00 car and relive some of those days.....

 

$1600 a month for rent. Holy shit.


When I was in high school I would just keep the beer under my front seat. It would get nasty HOT, but I found out a warm beer goes down fast. Ever try to chug a cold beer?

Hell I got to where I preferred drinking my beer warm.....and I drank Ol' Milwaukee back then too.

damn, I'm glad I don't drink any more.

 

I remember an olde Florida tip I saw in an ancient Popular Science type mag...bury the containers in sand and soak the sand in gasoline. let it evaporate, drink...but I think that was in the days when gas was cheaper than ice and didn't contain 97 extra carcinogens...

 

About 10 years ago we went to Indy for the US Nationals. Some friends had a motor home in the campground across from the track. The deal was we flew in and rented a car to get to the track, their wives would feed us all weekend in exchange for use of the car for shopping trips. There were 5-6 women so we had to rent a big car, got a Sedan de Ville. We were going to turn that big ass trunk into a cooler and make our campground entrance sliding sideways while popping the trunk release. The crowd would stare in awe of our handiwork and mega cases of cold beer. It didn't quite work out that way. We lined the carpeted trunk of this brand new Caddy with plastic and tried to form the cooler with 12 pack cardboard, more plastic, and foam insulation in a can. It was about 98 dgrees and humid. The foam stuck to everything except the plastic. Still managed to make a reasonable facsimilie of a cooler, closed the trunks lid and watched some races while it set up. We came back to a big pile of goo tha was still oozing through the cracks in the plastic. Eventually it formed a bowl that held beer and ice...sort of. At the end of the weekend the foam good and hard. Ended up using a hatchet to cut it out and hack a drain hole in the trunk floor. Some body is driving that car today totally unaware of its glorious, at least for one weekend, past.

 

Never bothered with coolers, but I was a pretty adept drunk...and the crew I ran with never could keep beer around long enough to worry about keeping it cool, so there never was a genuine NEED for a cooler.

Four of us in one car driving across town would finish a twelve pack, then we'd just stop for more...buy it cold and drink as you go! One night, we parked in the fire lane at a K-mart after business hours and sat on my buddy's Cougar drinking cold beer and eating Taco Bell at about 3am. A lone cop car rolls by, shine his light on us, stops for a second...then they click the light off and keep rolling!

Ha Ha...we all froze like deer in the headlights...beers in our hands and a mouth full of cheap fast food...and we just heard a quick "Fuck That!" grumbled from the cop car as they drove off!!!

We finished the last of our cold ones, along with our food, and headed home!

Those were the days...almost makes me MISS drinking sometimes!!

 

What do ya' do if ya' need a cooler real bad and you're a poor broke college kid????

That's easy. Ya' go to the closest country western bar at 2am and look for a 4-wheel drive truck. While Bubba and Billy Bob are inside getting oiled, you borrow their cooler outa' the back of their truck.

Only, ya' gotta' make sure ya' pick out one that's full of beer. This way if ya' get caught ya' won't mind the ass kicking you're gonna' get so much .

If ya' like BUD, look for the pick-ups with a #8 in the rear window, #40 if ya' like COORS Light or #2 if ya' like MILLER Lite. Because #8's are much more common, ya' might want to develop a taste for BUD .

After ya' run outa' ice, and if you have any beer left over (unlikely), take what's left and put them in the commode water tank at this $1,600 a month mansion you're stayin' at. This'll at least keep'em a little cool. Problem here is when ya' go to flush the BIG one down and only a trickle of water comes out, you're stuck looking at something until ya' drink more beer . See, for every problem there's a solution.

How do I know all this stuff??? 'Cause I was a broke college student at one time. Things don't change much as ya' get older. I'm not in college but I'm still broke .

 

A friend back in upstate NY had an early 70's Monte that we sealed the glovebox on w/ a gasket and ran A/C to. It would hold eight cans.

 

Must've been a southern car brought north.

Heck, I don't remember any of us having A/C in a car back then up north .