What’s The Coldest A Beer Has Ever Been? I Think I Know The Answer

This topic opened up Saturday night and then went off into a little bit of a tangent that sparked a question that should be answered and could be a very healthy debate (RIP). 

Let's start from the beginning. 

Another video drops of America's favorite couple, coworkers, ex's, your guess is a good as mine at this point and in what looks like a very tense situation is lightened by America's favorite shirtless heartthrob and washed up Offensive Lineman ... Mike Katic stepping in on the conversation to break up his bag of ice. 

His "sorry guys" reminds me very much of Morgan in Good Will Hunting's "I swallowed a bug" 

Very funny. 

Anyway … this sparked a tangent about the correct form for breaking up a bad of ice. 

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And from there I stood behind my claim about when you are really really looking forward to an event, icing a cooler is perfectly acceptable 36 hours before an event. We're talking homecoming, a golf outing, a big Christmas party etc. 

with a little shoutout to @THOLD42 's dad and the famous cooler from like 1997. 

I then double down that it feels like icing a cooler doesn't get enough respect. 

which anyone with a brain agreed about. 

Which then got me to thinking about … what has the coldest a beer has ever been in history ? 

Now hear me out. I'm not just talking about if there was some kind of Guiness World Record or actually the temperature of it per se. And I also realize that this question truthfully just cannot be answered because how could anyone ever judge every single beer ever to know the answer. It's impossible. But … as in all hypotheticals we can debate it and discuss it. 

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I do think I have the answer. 

When you factor in the desperation of the people involved, how long it had likely been between drinks for them, the heat of the day, the amount of sweat they worked up doing the work, and the price (free of course) … that the beer drank by the men of Shawshank prison after tarring the roof … is without a doubt the coldest beer ever served. 

Again, it's impossible to prove this but hypothetically if you were able to put yourself in the shoes of every person EVER and taste ever single beer ever served, that without a doubt … the ones at Shawshank take the cake. Think about it. Locked up for in most cases … life and being told where to walk,shower,piss and eat every day for what seems like forever, and through some miracle, some smooth talking convict banker convinces a guard to let him have a bucket of icy suds instead of throwing him off the roof, and you get to put back a few cold ones with your inmate "friends." That's without a doubt the coldest beer ever served and I won't hear anything else that could top it.