10 Great Beer Gadgets for the Lush of Your Life

It’s been a while since I did a Christmas shopping post, and we’re running out of time, folks! If you aren’t planning ahead for the holidays, you’re bound to get all harassed, and believe me, I will say I told you so.

I just got my friend Jim the Beertender’s newsletter the other day, and it inspired me to find all sorts of goodies for our beer-loving buddies. Here are my top ten picks:

1. Thirst Aid Beer Helmet

Yeah, we’ve seen this around and it looks utterly ridiculous. It’s super convenient though, and any beer-guzzler who says he doesn’t want it is just lying.

2. Hospital Bedside Booze Drip

I actually want one of these myself, but for coffee. You can fill the Bedside Booze Drip with any drink you want and have it ready and waiting when the pains of life are too much to bear. It comes with a stand to hang the bottle from and a long IV tube that can be placed in a glass or straight in your mouth for instant relief.

3. Yard of Ale

This beautifully made, hand-crafted glass yard of ale holds around 3 pints of your favourite fermented foamer, and is guaranteed to ensure the onset of rowdy drunkenness, superior spillage and general all-round raucousness.

4. Helter Skelter Drinks Chiller

Ok seriously — this has to be the coolest drink cooler ever.  Just put the Helter Skelter in the freezer until it’s nice and cold, then place it on the edge of your bar. Hold a glass underneath the spout and pour your drink into the top. As the drink makes its way down the frozen spiral channel it becomes colder and colder, and by the time it comes out the spout at the bottom (about 6 seconds later) your drink is nice and cool, ready to drink!

5. Hopside Down Beer Glass
 
If you’re tired of the uncivilised method of swigging beer straight from the bottle, then the Hopside Down glass from Fred provides a simple alternative to help wean people off their bottle habits.  With a 400ml capacity, the Hopside Down will easily hold a standard 330ml beer bottle, and it provides excellent insulation because it keeps warm hands away from the chilled beer via the extra wall of glass.

6. Tinchilla - Instant Can Cooler

The Tinchilla is a simple device which utilizes the scientific principle of thermal conduction. By spinning the can at an optimised speed the metal of the can is rapidly chilled by exposing its surface to the ice cubes and water surrounding it. Wait 60 seconds, and you have a cold beer. Very cool. 

7. Sinapsis After Office Tie
“Always be prepared” can now apply to beer-drinkers as well as Boy Scouts with this handy bottle-opener tie. Who says Happy Hour has to be after office hours anyway?

8. Beer-Launching Fridge
Incredible really, what guys will do to enhance the beer-drinking experience. Here’s one example — a small refrigerator equipped  for automatic beer tossing. John W. Conwell’s’s Beer-Launching Fridge can toss a beer to you from 13 feet away, and it’s perfectly accurate every time.

9. Remote Controlled Rolling Beverage Cooler

 Anything remote-controlled is awesome, and if it can actually bring you drinks, then it’s definitely a keeper.  You can have the R/C cooler filled with six cans of your favorite drink, and call it over from 30-feet away with the remote. When it’s empty, just send it back inside and have someone fill it up again!

10. PC Dispenser

Seriously??? A computer that also dispenses beer? How can that NOT make a person happy?

Need more ideas?

You can find some other supercool beer gadgets (like the ArKeg and Asahi Beer-Pouring Robot) here.