I was intrigued yesterday to see a recipe for a shed beer fridge in Allotment Growing Diary Plus, and as it’s my birthday today I thought it was a fine excuse for enjoying cold beer on the plot.
The idea is that the terracotta pot cools following evaporation of the absorbed water.
It certainly seemed to work, within an hour the pot was very cool but I made the mistake of starting with warm beer. I was too impatient to wait for the full process had to make do with coolish, luke warm beer.
I’ve left a couple of beers in there and topped the tray up before I left so we’ll see how long it works for. Maybe there will be an icy beer waiting for me after work tomorrow.
And here’s a gratuitous flower picture. I’m so happy with these dahlias, I grew them from seed and never imagined they’d be so successful.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Jules // Jul 16, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Happy Birthday!
2 Soilman // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Hope you had a terrific day.
3 John Harrison // Jul 16, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Glad you found the cooler useful – strange thing is that it works better in hot weather!
Happy birthday.
4 Karen // Jul 16, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Happy Birthday – Love the dahlias – I didn’t know they flowered so soon if you grow them from seed!
You must be well chuffed.
Karen
An Artists Garden
5 Daphne // Jul 16, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Happy birthday.
6 Nancy Bond // Jul 17, 2008 at 4:52 am
I hope you had a very lovely birthday! That dahlia is gorgeous!
7 booyaa // Jul 17, 2008 at 8:03 am
¡¡happy birthday!! cheers for the allotment fridge tip, i will definitely give it a try one of these summer evenings at the lotty!
8 Mrs Be // Jul 17, 2008 at 1:25 pm
How lovely! Great idea with the beers and beautiful flower. I never think of growing flowers from seeds but seeing your success I might have a try next year. Thanks for the inspiration!
9 green blog // Aug 12, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Terracotta pot? Well, looks to me it serves the purpose well to chill the drink. Anyway, happy belated there
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