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Right off the bat, NO!
It is gaudy. You can’t tell the breweries very easily. And if you did, it is mostly the industrial lager boys.
Then, where would this go? Maybe a garage where one wouldn’t have to look at it. Maybe a dorm room if you want to declare how uncultured you are.
If you want to up your BBQ game, how about adding beer barrels to the mix…
…beats yet more used barrels as planters or mini-table. Kudos to Bravery Brewing for the upcycling.
Pints and Panels has been mentioned on this blog before but what I failed to keep up with is that you can get some merch as well.
I particularly like Em Sauter’s beer styles art that shows what foods pair well. Check out her site for unique gifts for beer fans or yourself.
We all could probably use some new clothes especially as we re-venture out into the world and the Los Angeles County Brewers Guild has you covered with two new shirt designs.
I am not a gamer. Let me explain how not a gamer I am by saying the only console that I could play was a ColecoVision.
That disclaimer out of the way, there is a brewing simulator that will be coming in 2022 based on home brewing. “The Brewmaster Beer Brewing Simulator game starts with ingredients, moves on to equipment selection, then finishes up with mash in and the pitching of the yeast. The game is expected to be released to PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch formats.
Might be a tool if the analysis of the beer is robust at the end but without an actual beer to taste, I don’t know how helpful this might be.
The de-voweling of company names continues at half pace with…
Now, you ain’t gonna get beer in ten minutes. It will take that long to download and set-up the app that you need and to order the special ingredients needed. If I was about to get married, this might be something to put on the registry but I have reservations that it will make you a witbier better than what you can buy.
Most of us haven’t been inside a brewery so many of us probably haven’t bought much non-beer merch from one.
But if you need for you spruce up your t-shirt wardrobe then you might look into Shirts on Tap. Much like many monthly subscription models that are now available for the shop at home, avoid crowds set, you get the shirts sent to you. I have posted about it before but seems more helpful now.
This luxury item from Kona Brewing has been on offer since December of last year and though the price is 2k, I would say that it is one of the better swag ideas that I have seen. It is a natural fit with beer, especially Kona beers.
It doesn’t land in the Not column and is not really needed but is at least useful and fun.
Duke Cannon is quite the manly man name for a company. Now you do have to scroll past, Busch, Budweiser and Old Milwaukee soaps to find the one craft brand, which is Deschutes Fresh Squeezed branded soap. Sounds intriguing if expensive at $9.50 for a bar. More of interest to me was the Buffalo Trace version.
I have seen images of a chicken scented face mask from the fast food chain, Jack in the Box. I’m sure KFC has their version. Which got me to thinking. Why is there not a hop scented face mask? Citra on Saturday, Sabro on Sunday.
Or you could try to mimic the smell of a brew day as all the grains are mashed in. I bet more masks would be worn up around the nose if that were the case.
Come on Science, get us beer scented masks!