All Entries Tagged With: "beer"

Tuned Pale Ale Supports Your Drunken Musical Inclinations

Ever fancied forming a drunk musical ensemble?  We’re thinking that’s exactly what you’ll get with Tuned Pale Ale, a microbrewed beer with a cleverly musical packaging.
The bottle itself comes with musical scales on the label, so you can use it as an in-tune wind instrument.  Drink it down to the level of the note you want, blow into the mouth and it will play back the exact note.  Chugging beer halfway sounds no fun?  You can always pour the brew in a glass and refill the bottle with water – that way, you can play complete songs with your friends, all while you’re getting pissed drunk.

Tuned Pale Ale’s bottles use a unique washboard shape that allows it to transform into a single-note instrument when you blow into its snout.  Since songs sound flat without a beat, it comes in a case that can also double as drums (sticks included).   This [...]

Hops Holster Arms You With A Dozen Beers, Rambo-Style

No one goes to battle without a full load of ammo.  If you want to get drunk, nothing gets you readier than the Hops Holster, a Rambo-worthy bandolier with a dozen insulated beer can holsters.
Wrap it around your body, hang it around your neck or wear it around your waist.  Heck, tie it to a belt loop, pretend you’re a dinosaur and drag it like a tail.  No matter how you rock it, you’ll get quick access to twelve cans of your favorite beverage, ready to serve your thirst right on the spot.

The Hops Holster can be worn like a regular belt, ably going around waistlines between 28 to 42 inches.  Because the slots are insulated, your beer should retain a slight chill even if you spend some time working your way through the whole set.   Each holster is designed to take standard 12-ounce cans, but we’re guessing you can [...]

Limited-Edition Beer Comes With 55% Alcohol, Roadkill Packaging

Strong beer is good.  Super strong beer that you drink out of the taxidermied carcass of dead animals is just inexplicably sublime.  That’s exactly what you’ll get with The End of History, a 12oz bottle of fermented beverage with a nasty 55% alcohol by volume (ABV) rating.
The brainchild of Scottish brewery, BrewDog, the crazy-high alcohol content easily makes it the “strongest beer in the world,” beating out their own Sink the Bismarck drink, which was released just last February.  The name is supposed to stand for the fact that this will be the company’s last high-ABV beverage.  In their words, it represents “the end point of our research into how far the can push the boundaries of extreme brewing.”

The End of History is a blond Belgian ale, infused with fresh juniper berries and nettles picked from the Scottish Highlands.  Extreme freezing techniques were used to induce the insane levels of [...]

Freedom Flask Lets You Hide Beer…Near Your Crotch

Alcohol flasks are great, but they’re far from the smartest way to sneak booze into controlled places.  One functioning metal detector and any hope you have for a party is done.  The Freedom Flask, an IV-like beverage container that wears around your groin, should easily make a much better replacement.
Created by a UGA grad who sought out better ways of sneaking hooch into football games, it solves all the problems inherent in other ways of stealthily packing drinks.  No bags that leak, no metals for detectors to go wild over and no bottles to make a bulge in your pocket.  Since it’s under your pants, few will dare pat down where it can be felt either.

The Freedom Flask is a heavy-duty vinyl bag designed to carry 750ml of your favorite drinks.  It’s tethered to a 40-inch belt you can tie around your waist, with option to add a 12-inch extender [...]

Clone Brews Show You How To Copy Your Favorite Beer’s Taste

Want to homebrew your beer, but can’t bear leaving the taste of your favorite bottled store fare?  Grab a copy of Clone Brews and learn how to recreate the taste of popular brand name beers the world over.
A bible for beer drinkers with less exotic inklings, it shows you to how to enjoy homebrewing without embracing a more adventurous palate.  Over 200 beers are available for your experimentation, ranging from American pale ales to strong-hopped India pale ales to wheat beers to English bitters.
This second edition paperback of Clone Brews adds 50 new flavors to the 150 recipes in the original book.   Spanning 439 pages, it covers such popular beverages as the Guinness Extra Stout, Dos Equis and Foster’s Lager.  Apart from straight brewing recipes, the book features mashing guidelines, extract instructions, and detailed reviews of materials and ingredients, allowing you to experiment on your own when trying to recreate [...]

Grow Your Own Beer Kit Gives Your Beer Empire A Headstart

Wife wants you to garden with her? Umm…sure. As if that’s gonna happen. Well, it just might with Grow Your Own Beer Garden, a dude-friendly gardening kit that lets you plant and harvest all the ingredients you need to brew your own beer.
Of course, you’ll still have to invest in a homebrewing kit to go along with the garden setup, but the prospect of growing your own beer-making plants should be enough to get any red-blooded male excited. You’re growing beer in your own backyard that you and your friends can be drinking tomorrow.  How can that not leave you enthused?

Grow Your Own Beer Garden include everything you need to get started on your beer empire. You get a sprouting and growing dome for holding all those seedlings in, soil (a mixture labeled as Growing Medium), three colored stakes, natural gravel, decals (for [...]

Smell Like A Drunk Everyday With The Dogfish Head Beer Soap

Ain’t nothing like the stink of last night’s drinking binge oozing out of your every pore. Not only do people stay away from you in the subway, no one bothers to come near you at work. That’s like a misanthrope’s wet dream and you can enjoy it everyday by using Dogfish Head Beer Soap, a cleansing bar made from beer, ground hops and barley.
Not just any beer, mind you. It uses the company’s signature 90-minute India Pale Ale (IPA), a beverage once hailed by Esquire magazine as “perhaps the best IPA in America.” That way, you won’t just smell like you’re drenched in beer – you’ll be tingling olfactory senses with a highly-alcoholic and critically-acclaimed brew.
Granted, the Dogfish Head Beer Soap adds a few other ingredients to make sure you clean up good. The sudsy bar comes with palm, coconut, rice bran and olive oils, as [...]

Batch 19 Beer Gives You A Taste Of Pre-Prohibition Lager

Want to know how beer tasted like before Prohibition? Taste the forbidden brew with Batch 19 Beer, which uses an authentic, 91-year old recipe for everyone’s favorite Happy Hour beverage.
What makes the lager so special? By the time the sweet substance was banned, breweries went out of business, taking their recipes along with them to obscurity. Thankfully, this one managed to survive inside an old logbook in brewery archives that date back to the pre-Prohibition years.
Released by Coors, the Batch 19 Beer derives its name from the year when beer was banned – 1919. Made from a rare combination of hops, such as Hersbrucker and Strisslespalt, it boasts a “bold, hoppy flavor” that should elicit some of that rebellious, “I take illegal shit” feeling.
The recipe was discovered by Keith Villa, who found the logbooks inside an old brewery while he was cleaning out the basement during [...]

Binocktails Sneaks Alcohol Inside Modern Gadgets

If you’re neither an old man nor a pimp, rocking a walking cane to sneak in alcohol doesn’t really fly. Hiding the secret sauce inside a common gadget, however, sounds like it can actually work. Binocktails will have you covered on this one, with their line of alcohol-sneaking devices that you can carry out in the open without arousing much suspicion.
Got a hefty appetite for drinking? Better come up with a reason to carry the Binocular Flask, a double-chambered alcohol repository that can carry a generous 16oz of booze. Styled like a regular pair of field glasses, you can hang it around your neck while attending concerts and sporting events, sparing you the hassle of having to pay stadium price for a glass of beer. Just uncork the eyepieces and drink to your heart’s content.  Burp.

For those who’d just like a little sauce to spice [...]

Draught Beer Chill Dispenser Can Be Your Personal 24/7 Bartender

The Draught Beer Chill Dispenser doesn’t do anything special, except serve you chilled beer on tap. Which, as it happens, is all the “special” that I need. Making it…perfect.
Why concern yourself with opening cans and popping bottles? Not to mention making trips to the fridge just to grab a cold, fresh one. This compact draft beer dispenser will chill the suds by itself, all while sitting right next to you on the couch, saving you from all the hard work normally associated with getting drunk at home.
Sized to fit a 5-liter keg of your choice beverage at any one time, the Draught Beer Chill Dispenser measures a stocky 54 x 30 x 41 cm. It features dual system operation, supporting both pressurized and non-pressurized kegs. How does the beer stay cold? It comes with thermal electric cooling behind double-layer insulation, keeping that beer [...]

Covert Cooler Lets You Sneak Cheap Beer Into That Expensive Golf Club

Beer goes well with everything, so it’s no surprise to find it as a favorite in your local golf course too. Only problem is, the greedy bunch running it have decided to post a large sign up front: “All Beverages Must Be Purchased From The Clubhouse.” Buying overpriced beer is all fine and dandy if you ain’t a cash-strapped hipster looking for a little R&R, so your best recourse is to sneak nine cans of brewskies in (one for every other hole) with a Covert Cooler Beer Can Hider.
Hiding a cooler sized to fit nine 12-ouncers may sound like a tussle with golf club security waiting to happen, but the bag cleverly accomplishes its surreptitious aims. How? It’s actually clad as a shoe bag meant to discreetly sit inside a regular golf bag’s shoe compartment, allowing you to haul it a full 18 holes without [...]

Can Grip Turns Your Canned Drink Into A Mug


I hate canned drinks. My hands are already clammy to begin with, so I don’t need no cold beer to drench it. That’s why the Can Grip sounds like a godsend, giving that inconvenient vessel mug-like handling powers.
Designed to snap onto standard 12oz cans, the contraption not only adds a plastic handle for your gross-sounding Watermelon Wheat Beer, it also appends a coaster at the bottom of the can. No more wet palms and no more rings on the coffee table. Those benefits are so awesome even the wife will approve.
The Can Grip is a single-piece plastic device that clips to the top edge of your can and cradles the bottom, giving a stein-like handle that lets you grip your drink with utmost comfort. That means you can down your way out of a six-pack with class, while everyone wrangles each can with their fingers [...]

Tactical Nuclear Penguin is The World’s Strongest Beer, Comes With 32% Alcohol Content

Seriously, you call a 7% alcohol content beer “strong”?   Prepare to blush in shame with one swig of the Tactical Nuclear Penguin, an “uber-imperial” stout with almost enough kick as your favorite whiskey.
Introduced by BrewDog, the unusually potent brew is as much a collector’s concoction as it is an exercise in decadence.  Forget about gobbling bottles upon bottles of brewskies – it’s intended to be “enjoyed in small servings and with an air of aristocratic nonchalance.”  The first is probably a good idea, while the rest is unnecessary marketing spout.  Still, kinda gives you a hint about the type of recreational drink you’re looking at.

The Tactical Nuclear Penguin starts off as a 10% imperial stout that’s been carefully prepared for consumption through an 18-month stretch.  It spends over eight months aging in a whiskey cask, another eight plus months in an Islay cask and a little under three weeks in [...]

Craigerator Fire And Ice: Even Kegerators Work Best With An iPod

Food always tastes better with ketchup.  All pieces of home electronics and furnishings, on the other hand, simply work better with an iPod.  Even kegerators.  If you have any doubts, just take a gander at the Craigerator Fire and Ice, a custom, one-off kegerator with an integrated iPod dock and speaker system.
Commissioned by Keystone Light Beer, the “made for iPod” beer dispenser (the second one in the picture) was given away as part of the grand prize for FHM Magazine’s Pimp My Pad contest.  Just as the description suggests, the full-size kegerator serves as much beer and music as your manhood can handle.
To produce the Fire and Ice, creator Craig Jones stripped an old fridge apart, putting it through various processing stages, including sandblasting, powder coating and repainting.  The finished set includes a new compressor, updated environmental freon and high-density foam insulation.  For the snazzy appearance, he threw in custom-fabricated [...]

ArKeg Arcade System Puts Both Games And Beer On Tap

Playing games is fun. Getting drunk is just as entertaining. Playing games while getting drunk, however, makes all the lonely nights go away… forever. Just ask anyone who’s bought the Arkeg, an arcade-style game machine with a tap that pumps free-flowing beer for a jolly, old time.
Not a complex machine by any means, the Arkeg houses a five gallon keg with a dispensing system and a functional game-ready PC. Stored inside the cabinet of the arcade box, the keg can be pre-filled with your choice of 55 different brands, including microbrews, that the company supports. Once you’ve run out of the sweet, sweet stuff, you can simply order another batch for delivery.
The PC, on the other hand, appears to be a regular gaming computer. It comes pre-installed with 69 classic console games on ROM, with the ability to run any title designed for DOS [...]

Okhotsk Blue Draft Is Beer Made From Melted Icebergs

One of the benefits of global warming and the ice caps melting is that the Japanese get to enjoy really good beer. Why let all that icy water go to waste, after all?
The Okhotsk Blue Draft is one of the most unique beers around, counting a couple of unusual ingredients into its mix. Chief among its odd sources is water from melted icebergs that float to the Hokkaido beaches from the Sea of Okhotsk, an area in the Pacific Ocean near both Japan and Russia.
The soothing blue color, of course, isn’t because of the sea water. I think you have to be in third grade to still believe that. Instead, Abashiri Brewery achieved the attractive hue by adding blue seaweed into the mix.
Will ice water from the sea really make beer better? I doubt it. Although, that sure makes drinking a bottle a heck [...]