Beverage Cooling Apparatus

Abstract

A beverage cooling apparatus for imparting coldness to beverage containers includes a base having a planar configuration and having a pair of side walls extending upwardly from ends of the base. The apparatus includes a guide member that includes first and second end portions and defining a plurality of apertures spaced apart from one another between the first and second end portions thereof that are configured to selectively receive and suspend the plurality of beverage containers, respectively. The first and second end portions of the guide member are coupled to upper ends of the side walls of the cooling member, respectively. The cooling member includes a temperature transfer material that transfers hot or cold heat energy to beverage containers suspended in apertures, respectively, such that they touch or are in proximity to the cooling member. The cooling member is separable from the guide member and re-frozen for later use.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to devices for cooling beverage items and, more particularly, to a beverage cooling apparatus having a guide portion separable from a re-freezable cooling portion, the guide portion having multiple apertures configured to suspend multiple beverage containers into proximity or contact with the cooling portion.[0002]With the advent of home brewing of beer, taste testing of multiple home brews of beer has become very popular. A beer flight device is often used to present several low volume containers of beer to be sampled, either by prospective buyers, consumers, or judges of the home brewed beer samples. A beer flight device is a generally flat device, usually made of wood, having multiple recessed areas like conventional coasters into which glasses or cups of a beverage such as beer are nested for the purpose of serving or sampling the beer. A common problem with presenting multiple containers of beer for sampling is that each c...

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