Beer Gadgets

Move Aside Plain Ol’ Kegerator…

by Luke

One of the dorkiest most amazing gaming systems to appear in years has just been unvailed (for now via eBay only): The Gamerator. A full-scale arcade-style gaming system, The Gamerator is loaded with 187 classic games… AND a refrigerated interior that can hold a pony-keg of beer. The system includes realistic joysticks, buttons, and trackball - all [...]

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Taste Your Beer’s Beer Tasting & Hop Appreciation Kit

by Luke

The good folks at tasteyourbeer.com were kind enough to send me a sample Beer Tasting kit to review, so let me start off by thanking them for their generosity. The kit–similar to popular kits designed to improve your wine tasting skills–comes with everything you need to get started identifying the many different hop varieties used in your [...]

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Get Draught-like Guinness From the Can

by Luke

Guinness from a can will soon pour like Guinness from a tap. Thanks to a plate-shaped device called the “Surger.”Guinness wholesalers are on the verge of placing the $25 unit into bars that serve the Irish import from the bottle or can rather than from the tap. After Guinness is poured into a glass, the [...]

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Today’s Terrible Idea: The Cold Cavern Beer Froster

by Luke

The new Cold Cavern Beer Froster may be one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard of! This beer freezer is designed to keep your beer “chilled to the optimal temperature”, which is apparently 24 degrees Fahrenheit. That is, of course, below freezing, so you’ll have a frosted bottle (and probably slushy beer) waiting for you at [...]

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Cashing in on the Beer Pong Craze

by Luke

A story from the Wall Street Journal this week reported a growing number of young entrepreneurs taking advantage of the popularity of beer pong, a drinking game prevalent on college campuses. As we all know, the game typically doesn’t require much in terms of equipment (a few ping-pong balls, red Solo cups, a little bit of clean [...]

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The Ultimate All-in-One Homebrew System

by Luke

  Homebrewer-turned-inventor John Carnett has spent weeks building what he simply refers to as The Device. What is said devide? A stainless-steel, two-cart extract brewing system that starts by boiling the wort and ends with a chilled pint. As many of our readers know, in most home-brewing extract setups, each step in the process requires moving the [...]

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