April, the Month of the Cold Shower: Day 12 (Cold Shower Beer)

April 12, 2013

One great way to decompress after a tough day at work is the Shower Beer.  This method, celebrated at our workplace and elsewhere, involves drinking a beer in the shower, combining the best of both worlds: a hot shower and a cold beer.  The result is a very relaxing, laid-back experience (but don't over-do it; save it for special occasions!).  The Shower Beer has one of three possible outcomes:

• The beer is consumed very quickly in the shower (a modified version of Chug and Thug)
• The shower is much longer than expected in order to avoid chugging the beer too quickly
• The beer is finished more quickly and the shower is a bit longer than usual

Cold showering poses a new element to the Shower Beer.  Since cold showers go by much faster than a typical hot shower, the beer would need to be finished in about a minute, definitely not at the leisurely pace of a typical Shower Beer.

I tried the Cold Shower Beer yesterday after work just to see what would happen.  The experience was invigorating, refreshing, and the resulting buzz was arctic-chilly and very fun!  I would recommend this as a way to totally turn a bad day around!