Miller to introduce self-cooling beer cans next year

We're always keen on technology that improves our beer consumption experience, whether it be coasters and pitchers that signal for help when you need a refill, or mugs that let you share a drink with distant friends. Obviously, then, we were understandably excited to learn that Miller will be the first domestic brewer to utilize Tempra's self-cooling cans for dropping your drink's temperature a minimum of 30º F on command. Self-cooling, and self-heating, technology have been around for awhile, but save for the homemade Peltier Beer personal beverage cooler, this is the first method we've seen to cool down your suds long after the ice in your cooler has melted. Tempra's I.C. Can works by drawing heat out of the beverage with a natural desiccant (drying agent), through a water gel coated evaporator, and into an insulated heat-sink container, once an internal vacuum-seal has been broken. Miller's self-cooled offerings should begin showing up in finer distributors nationwide starting sometime next year, and as you can probably imagine, a sixer of these high-tech brews isn't going to come cheap.

[mgfras3 @ Jul 1st 2008 11:47PM]

Can someone tells me how to get this can?. I like it. Iam living in a very hot country where the weather temp.is around 31 degrees celcius
Please respond.

Thanks.

[Jerome @ Apr 20th 2006 3:53PM]

Another reason to drink on a hot day, I LIKE IT!

[Spectral Flagellum @ Apr 20th 2006 3:54PM]

Piss beer... Drink it Warm!

[Ed @ Apr 20th 2006 3:54PM]

what happens if you hit it with an axe handle?

[Spectral Flagellum @ Apr 20th 2006 3:56PM]

You get crappy beer and vinegar all over.

[daaper @ Apr 20th 2006 4:16PM]

look out, here come the beer snobs...

[Beau @ Apr 20th 2006 4:22PM]

Cheap beer. Expensive container. Kinda like a trophy wife.

If CA redemption value goes sky high on these things I'm gonna employ the local bums and get rich.

[Beau @ Apr 20th 2006 4:26PM]

Dammit, missed 4:20 on 4/20! Talking about beer no less.

[Lizzy @ Apr 20th 2006 4:29PM]

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I am a bit weary of excess packaging so this just screams "crowded landfill" to me. Is this a big problem for people right now? Last time I checked, gas stations still sold beer from a cooler. Alternatively, if you are out in the woods camping or some such, why havent you purcahsed one of those serious coolers that can keep ice for a week? But then again, I don't think that people for whom Miller is marketed are the type to have many concerns beyond either getting wasted or watching NASCAR.

[tony @ Apr 20th 2006 4:32PM]

the only way miller can people to drink its beer is if its so cold you can't taste it.

now get me a bottle of chimay that automatically keeps the beer at cellar temps and I'll be impressed.

[Glancing Aft @ Apr 20th 2006 4:32PM]

Just about the worst bear ever...
Drink Micro or drink nothing....

Also yet another thing to end up in a landfill, great job miller cause I highly doubt your local recyling plant will have a clew as to what to do with that....

[Gr1zz @ Apr 20th 2006 4:32PM]

Someone will figure a way to make a bomb out of the components of this.

[SLiKone @ Apr 20th 2006 4:34PM]

Hmmmm.....There was a press release about these cans way back in 2000, it's on Tempras website. Why did it take so long for this product to come to market!

Also, what if it has been outside all day, adn has heated up to say, oh, 80 degrees? You pop the top, wait three minutes, and....yum, it's Warm Miller Time.

[daschupa @ Apr 20th 2006 4:47PM]

What would they do about kids starting them in the stores?

Anyhoo, very cool (no pun intended) but I'd rather have something I can put a can in and get it instantly cooled rather than toting around a 12-inch can of dog urine�I mean beer.

[2mellow @ Apr 20th 2006 4:49PM]

Glancing Aft.......dude!.....spell checker? please?

[bulan @ Apr 20th 2006 4:57PM]

Hey this kind of beer can is seen on a Discovery Channel programs

[jcg @ Apr 20th 2006 5:15PM]

:(, i like the heineken keg backpack better. It has isolation and ice-packs.

[mcd @ Apr 20th 2006 7:18PM]

been looking at a "think outside the box" type poster for this can outside our college's technology labs for neigh on 2 years now...

Will they finally go ahead and make the damn thing?

[matt @ Apr 20th 2006 7:34PM]

I told my boss a few weeks ago, when the tempra I.C. on this site, and then he called (his friend) the director of marketing at Miller...

Still waiting on confermation on the relevence...

[FelixPerro @ Apr 20th 2006 7:48PM]

So does this mean that ice is now antiquated?

"We don't use ice anymore. That's so 2005!"

[rad_ick @ Apr 20th 2006 8:42PM]

WE SHOULD SEND SOME OF THESE TO OUR BOYS OVERSEAS!

[Tomas @ Apr 20th 2006 8:43PM]

This is sweet. You don't need to take a cooler everywhere. You can just keep a couple of cans in the glovebox and crack one open whenever you feel like it.

[Sizer @ Apr 20th 2006 8:57PM]

> You can just keep a couple of cans in the glovebox and crack one open whenever you feel like it.

Agh, no! Heat damages beer (though in a different way than light does). Any can that goes hot cold hot cold hot cold is going to be awful even when you like Miller in the first place.

[Rick F @ Apr 20th 2006 9:17PM]

Sounds like more high tech trash coming to your local land fill soon!

[Christopher @ Apr 20th 2006 9:58PM]

2 mellow, im afraid a spell checker would do nothing for that entry. how about a dictionary for you?

[George @ Apr 21st 2006 6:46AM]

It's an old hat. The german beer brewer "Tucher" has been successfully selling self-cooling beer kegs (20 litres) for quite a few years in Germany. The link below is unfortunately in german.
http://www.tucher.de/coolkeg/selbstkuehlend/index.html

The german company Zeo-tech near Munich developed the system as well as a few other fancy cooling systems working on the same principle.
http://www.zeo-tech.de/e_index.htm , this site is in english. I was directly in contact with them and it's not a landfill product, as the reuseable lifespan of the kegs is about 20 years. Unfortunately, their licence fees were so high that I didn't think it worthwhile following up.

[The_Solidshadow @ Apr 21st 2006 8:55AM]

Theres a poster in the DT (Design & Technology) Block in my school that looks almost the same as, if not exactly like, the picture in the post. It's about a self-cooling can... It's been there for like 4 years now...

[icerabbit @ Apr 21st 2006 9:07AM]

Re: Tony ~ Chimay.
How about a Grimbergen? or Kasteelbier? ;-)

[zoara @ Apr 21st 2006 9:17AM]

Real beer isn't chilled.

[Zeek @ Apr 21st 2006 12:38PM]

I can't wait to enjoy one of these with a smokeless cigarette.

I'll pick up a pack at the museum of useless artifacts, where the diaorama is being built for this blight.

[Natty Coleman @ Apr 21st 2006 3:57PM]

This technology has been around for almost 20 years. They did a pilot program on this with coke back then, but the can top components they used could easily be crafted into small explosives so they were recalled and never seen again. Crazy. This new cooling techmmmology should make its way into good drinks, not beer, f*cking gross man.

[Billy @ Apr 21st 2006 6:44PM]

I'm curious how this will be sold here in Oklahoma. Our liquor stores can't carry refrigerated beverages. Maybe we'll get lucky and this will be a catalyst for us to finally get some 20th century liquor laws.

[peter @ Apr 22nd 2006 8:19AM]

It figures, the best way to test this kind of product out is on a group of drinkers. Also the comment about you can put a few cans in the glove compartment of the car should do wonders for DWI

[Kevin Logan @ Apr 24th 2006 10:10PM]

First one to send me one at my Beer Can Museum gets a free VIP tour and a cold can of...something good!

[Jesse @ Apr 26th 2006 7:31PM]

The world has become a better place

[Some Guy @ Apr 26th 2006 9:34PM]

I remember watching a t.v. special about this a while ago. The inventor explained that even with current materials, it would be feasible to sell the beers at the same prices as that of 20oz sodas. Seems kinda worth it to me.

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