Beer Archive

  • Brewing TV: When homebrewers attack the web

    Brewing TV: When homebrewers attack the web

    Brewing TV – Episode 1.1 from Brewing TV on Vimeo. If you’ve ever made your own booze you probably know about Northern Brewer, one of the best online brew supply stores. Well, those folks just started Brewing TV which consists of a dude in a hat talking with another dude in a hat about brewing as [...]

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  • Bottle opener wears like a ring, punches like brass knuckles

    Bottle opener wears like a ring, punches like brass knuckles

    While cool, I dunno that I'd recommend wearing this very often. Particularly around law enforcement, since the bottle opener ring could definitely be mistaken for brass knuckles.

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  • Munich adds beer to high-tech Lufthansa lounge

    Munich adds beer to high-tech Lufthansa lounge

    What goes great with eighteen integrated computer workstations and lots of room to spread out when waiting for a flight? How about beer? The Lufthansa lounge in Munich now has a Bavarian beer garden, allowing the harried business travel to partake of the golden nectar straight from the bosom of the goddess Disen or, barring that, [...]

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  • Science continues to improve our lives with new unbreakable pint glass

    Science continues to improve our lives with new unbreakable pint glass

    As a homebrewing enthusiast, I'm constantly trying to improve my process and my equipment. I'm busy making a DIY bottle tree to dry my bottles right now. The British, quite probably the world's best drinkers, have been hard at work improving the vessel of beer delivery, the pint glass. Two new shatter-proof glasses have been unveiled by the British Home Office, designed in collaboration with the Design Council.

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  • Bark4Beer: Dog collar with bottle opener

    Bark4Beer: Dog collar with bottle opener

    If you have a dog and you’ve thrown a party, you know that dogs generally add a bit of fun to the mix at the beginning of the party but by the end, they’ve mostly eaten food off the coffee table, scared the bejesus out of the three guests who have an irrational fear of dogs, and had a few “accidents” in high-traffic areas like hallways and doorways.

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  • Behold, the ultimate keg/arcade machine mashup

    Behold, the ultimate keg/arcade machine mashup

    Meet the arkeg. The ultimate combination of a MAME console, and a kegerator. Those lucky bast blokes at Wired managed to get they hands on one to review. It's got some good and bad points, but you have to admit it's cool no matter what.

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  • Kodomo No Nomimono: Beer for kids

    Kodomo No Nomimono: Beer for kids

    After a long, hard day of… playing with toys, watching cartoons, and napping, nothing spells refreshment like a frosty glass of Kodomo No Nomimono – a phrase which I can only assume means something close to "beer for kids" in Japanese.

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  • Wearable beer dispenser solves multiple problems at once

    Wearable beer dispenser solves multiple problems at once

    kegpackIf you ask me (and nobody asked me) the standard 12-ounce beer size is long overdue for an upgrade. We, as Americans, like things larger than life and there's no reason we should still be drinking a single beer in under a minute. Until all beer manufacturers start shipping suds in 32-ounce (or larger) cans, we'll have to make due with an apparatus such as this: the Portable Tap Dispenser.

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  • Chrome and PBR link up for Limited Edition Citizen PBR messenger bag

    Chrome and PBR link up for Limited Edition Citizen PBR messenger bag

    What happens when you mix one of the best ‘budget’ beers with the best messenger bag company in the biz? The best messenger bag of all time! That’s right, friends, Chrome is giving away one (or maybe more than one, I don’t know) LE Citizen PBR bag. How do you win? I’m glad you asked [...]

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