Savage, sounds like your getting close, I don't know if you have all the clues yet but I can tell you, you have to combine a bunch of them and some of them aren't needed to get out, this one was pretty tough for me. It took me a week off and on to find all the clues and my son found his way out in about 2 hrs with all the clues, and yes the beer has to be cold
Good Luck
I'm looking forward to the new one coming out Dec. 20