Need a place to chill your brew? Why not use a pumpkin? This is a great way to get into the spirit of Halloween while also telling the world you take your drinks seriously. Don’t want to make a pumpkin keg? Here are two ways to make a pumpkin beer cooler.
Option one: The chiller
Directions
- Cut off the top of the pumpkin, leaving enough room for ice to cover the beer, but also ensuring the hole is big enough to maximize the number of beers.
- Scoop out the insides and rinse.
- Some People might want to put a bowl inside the pumpkin. Others may want to use a plastic bag. I’m too lazy for that.
- Add bottled beer and ice.
- Open a beer and admire your work.
Option two: Spiked beer
Directions
- Cut off the top of the pumpkin. You want a bit smaller of a hole, just make sure you leave enough room to gut the sucker.
- Scoop out the insides and rinse.
- Trace the bottom of a beer bottle or can on the pumpkin.
- Carve the hole and insert a beer.
- Repeat until you can’t no more!
- Fill the pumpkin with ice.
- Open a beer and admire your work.
You can try putting in a bag of ice instead of loose ice, it may minimize the water from melting ice. This is a pumpkin… with holes in it, and you are filling it with a substance that becomes liquid at room temperature. Expect a mess. You may want to keep the pumpkin cooler outside, or put something under it to catch the leaking.
SPOOK IT UP!You can also put a waterproof flashlight or lantern inside a ziplock bag to create a (b)eerie glow. Need some beer ideas to fill the cooler? Try these pumpkin beers.
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