I am all for beer socks. We all have enough hop adorned hats and t-shirts. So check out these stylish socks highlighting the ingredients in beer from the Homebrewers Association.
Fashion Hop (malt and water) Couture
Map that Flavor
Finding the right word is sometimes extra easy and sometimes excruciatingly hard. And when trying to convey beer flavors, you can quickly lose the thread searching for just the write word.
There are a few thesaurus type beer products out there but this set from DraughtLab have a couple extra things going. One is that they are brewer based so it is not a watered down beer ticker list. Secondly, they do hops but they have two malt maps as well. Since they are industry based, they have bulk pricing. So maybe find a few friends who could use a vocabulary boost.
Needed or Not – Brewery Lunchbox
Now this throws me back to my grade school days. I had so many “needs” for a cool Star Wars or Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox back in the day.
Usually this re-occuring post focuses on gear that is certainly NOT needed but in this instance, I am going to vote for 1/2 needed. The lunchbox is a keeper for sure as is the t-shirt. Don’t think I am allowed to bring anymore glassware into my house and a koozie is just not needed in my mind. Maybe socks and a hat would have been better or a can of beer would have been better. But points for creativity for thinking outside the (lunch)box.
Spielkarten
I am always on the look out for beer gifts that are not hats, shirts or bottle openers. And I have found a good one that might help with your German beer drinking…
I saw these at the Paso Robles General Store just off the park in downtown but I bet you could find them with some looking on the interwebs.
The Next Package
It would be safe to say that back in 2010, no one would have predicted that beer shoppes would be primarily filled with 16oz cans. Bombers were the reigning king and cans were seen as the realm of big beer.
It is not too early then to guess as to what will be the package of preference in five years time. Maybe this….
…yeah, I doubt it too due to simply figuring out how to shelve them. But the question still stands. What will we be pouring our beer out of. Cans or bottles? What size? Will 10oz stubbies reappear?
Right From the Bat
With baseball season well underway, beers will be drunk at ballparks and bars but if you want to class up your beer of choice and feel closer to the game, well then….
Recool and Reuse
The above is being branded as the Igloo Recool, an green cooler constructed from 100% biodegradable materials. They are $10 each and will be first on sale at REI stores (or online) before going full main stream.
According to Igloo, the “Recool is a hard-sided cooler made from a mix of paraffin wax and recycled tree pulp.” It can keep ice icy in the 12 hour range and has handles and cup holders as features.
Needed or Not – CanCap
Now, I thought for sure that this was fake….
…but apparently CanCap is a real thing. And they sell for 9.99 pounds for four in either clear or green colors. I know that 16oz cans have taken over. It is practically all that I have in my ‘fridge most of the time. But to take that next step to create this item baffles me.
Sure, I want something else that I have to keep beer clean. Sure, I don’t want to drink out of a glass. Maybe there is some QC need for this but other than that, what?
Needed? – Not even close.
Keep it Clean
I am a fan of the off beat Beer Days on the calendar. National Beer Day doesn’t do it for me, neither does IPA Day. Saison Day, I can board that train and now an even deeper cut….
#Hashtag the above with examples of clean (or dirty) glassware. Anything to improve the beer experience, even if it is a small amount is good.
Becher
Does the word in the headline ring a bell? It didn’t for me when I saw it on a can of Brutiful Day Brut IPA from AleSmith.
Becher is a shortened name. It is a German Pub glassware choice also known as the Willi Becher or Willybecher.
It is close, in style, to the much maligned shaker pint with a slight inward push near the top giving it a more sleek look in my opinion. I don’t know what aromatics make the glass appropriate for the Brut style but I will experiment since I do believe I have one of these glasses in my vast collection.