Year 2 Statistics

Totals

672 Cans
305 Litres
1372 Units

Can Breakdown

Alex: 316
Jon: 164.5
Ian: 35
Dave: 54
Marta: 61
Guests: 41.5

Other Stats

Most cans contributed by a guest: 10.5 (Chris)
Cans broken beyond repair: 8
Most cans contributed in one night: 30
Fastest Jug Time: 28:47 (Dave)
Fastest Can Time: 6 seconds (Dave)

Weakest Beverage: Tesco Value Lager (2%) (we're not proud)
Strongest Beverage: Faxe (10%)

Tallest Tower: 2.62m (16 storeys)

And that's it!

Our second year is officially over - the house has been vacated and the cans have been stored away ready for our return sometime in September.

This place will be pretty quiet until then, but I will be posting some second year statistics and perhaps one or two other things over the course of the summer. The second half of the swing footage will be uploaded sometime at the start of our third year so keep an eye out for that, too!

Year 2 casualties

This year has seen various beer can towers kicked, driven and swung into, and as such we were always going to suffer some losses. In spite of all our efforts, however, we've only had to write off 8 of the former cans since the vast majority of the damage caused has been superficial.

We're taking this as a sign - if we've only managed to destroy 8 out of some 900 cans then we might just have to up the ante with the destructions next year!

Boxing up

Well, after several trips to IKEA we just finished boxing up all the cans for storage over the summer. It took 10 full boxes in all:

Each box contains between 80 and 100 cans, and we've counted 923 cans so far (one box is still open for last minute additions). This is the last time we'll have to store the cans for any great length of time - around this time next year we'll be crushing everything down for recycling!

Swing Video!

As promised, here's the first part of our video footage from the swing:

What happens...

...when you introduce a 560-can beer can tower to a make-shift swing? Well we've been finding out recently, and the answer is lots of destruction! Here are the before and after shots:

Videos to follow soon!

BCT16

BCT16 

(13/05/12 - 20/06/12)

Destruction : "Beer Mobile"

Beer Mobile

After the relatively unsuccessful attempt to destroy BCT15 with a mobile phone, we began discussing what other methods might be more successful. One of the most promising ideas that we had was to buy a toy car and drive it into the tower, which led to us buying a remote control 4x4 and ultimately to the destruction of BCT16.

And so the Beer Mobile was bought, and after much test-driving around our house we were ready to destroy the tower - but not before giving it some more appropriate decoration first!

 The destruction couldn't have gone better, and I suspect that this will not be its only appearance - expect to see more of it in the near future!

BCT15

BCT15 

(13/03/12 - 05/05/12)

Destruction : "Mobile Phone"

BCT14

BCT14  

(18/01/12 - 13/03/12)

Destruction : "Heffalump"

(No video available)

Looking back: The Ocado Shop

The start of Term 2 brought with it an incredible stroke of luck which led to our most outrageous bulk order of beer to date. Supplies of beer in our house were running low, and whilst we wanted to order more online none of the standard supermarkets seemed to be offering any deals.

This all changed, though, when we received an Ocado gift voucher from WHSmiths and decided to check it out. In so doing, we stumbled upon a mistake on their website where they were offering £12 15-packs of Carlsberg on 2-for-£10.

Needless to say we capitalised and ordered 14 boxes (210 cans-worth), which combined with our £10-off voucher cost us a grand total of £60. That works out as £2 for every 7 cans of beer!

The Ocado Van arrives (25/01/12)

When we checked back on their website the next day we discovered that the pricing had already been corrected to 2-for-£20. Not that it mattered to us though - we'd already bought 92 litres from them!

The Ocado Tower

Cheers, Ocado!

Looking back: Year 2 Term 1

With the summer behind us we found ourselves moving into our new house in Coventry and beginning our second year. It took us some time to get the cans out of storage (read: back from Jon's grandparents!), and the cans drunk during this period combined with the small number we collected over the summer meant that by the time we got the first year cans back we had enough for 11 storeys.

Things were not all plain sailing though. The carpet in the new house was particularly uneven, which ultimately led to us buying some big sheets of thick card to form a base. Finally, on the 6th of October 2011 the beer can tower was reconstructed in its new home.

BCT9 - 165 cans

BCT11 - 286 cans

BCT10 - 220 cans

After this the cans came flying in - we had 237 cans in total during this term which beat our entire first year of university. By the christmas holidays the tower was comprised of 13 storeys and was an impressive 2.16 metres in height. Its construction marked the first time we had needed a chair in order to complete it, which was an achievement in itself! We also experimented with a beer can 'castle', comprised of a 10 storey tower with two 7 storey towers attached.

BCT12 - 364 cans

BCT13 - 455 cans

Castle - 388 cans

Sometime during this term it became clear that our original 15 storey target was going to be smashed. We also realised that the tower's new home could only last for one more storey before it extended out too far into the corridoor, and so it was going to need to be moved elsewhere...