Awesome Alcohol

Casa Dragones’ 100% Blue Agave Joven Tequila is handmade in small batches, gently balancing platinum tequila with a hint of extra anejo; comes in a handcrafted crystal decanter. (Thanks Jim!)

For those who enjoy entertaining at home, the iPad Drinkspiration app offers 3,000+ drink recipes with images; it also creates shopping lists and suggests cocktails based on the ingredients in your kitchen.

A running joke among beer buddies, now an actual product! Fill it up with any drink you like and hang it by your favorite spot, for “when the pains of your life, wife or strife, get too much.”

Break out the curly straws, cookies and shot glasses for Adult Chocolate Milk, with real cream and rich chocolatey taste, but with a very grown-up bonus: a 40 proof alcohol enhancement.

An elegant tool for opening bottles of bubbly, it has a square end that won’t cut. A bottle of G.H. Mumm’s Cordon Rouge is included, so you can test your bottle slashing skills out of the box.

It doesn’t get simpler than this. Actually, it could get simpler – the bottle opener has a magnet right where the bottle crown fits so it won’t drop after it’s popped off. Clever.

DQ Vodka’s unique bottle is made by one of the finest glass makers in Europe, with metal surfaces akin to high end automotive standards and satin chrome finish for the top and bottom caps.

Buffalo Trace Distillery is releasing the 2 latest whiskeys in its rare and limited Experimental Collection – one aged in a new toasted French oak barrel; the other from a used American White oak.

Make dessert more grown-up with Cream, a 30 proof alcohol-infused whipped cream in 6 tasty flavors. We know it would taste great in coffee, so why are we picturing bikinis made of this stuff?

Piece of Cake Liqueurs has combined two of our fave things, cake and booze, into Chocolate Cake Liqueur, which can be paired with other spirits or taken The Awesomer way – one shot at time.

Monkey Shoulder whiskey is the world’s first Triple Malt, a blend of 3 of Speyside’s finest single malt whiskies, matured in Bourbon casks under a Malt Master’s supervision before being released.

The Way We See the World has created edible drinking glasses from the seaweed extract agar-agar in unusually tasty flavor combinations, like lemon-basil, ginger-mint and rosemary-beet.

This 2 minute Sapporo commercial from Toronto’s Crush Inc. is one part layered and suspended reality, one part peek into rich cultural history and all parts beautiful animation. (Thanks, Adam!)

MadeByAmmo’s Shotshell shot glass is machined from a solid bar of stainless steel with textured knurling at the base. The 2 or 4 glass Tactical Pack includes a military-spec pouch for storage.

TY KU, the world’s only sake-based beverage, is a liqueur filled with a bouquet of 20-odd flowers and fruits, including elderflower syrup, yuzu, plum and green tea, packaged in a self-illuminating bottle.

We’re with the Drinkhacker: the versatile French St. Germain spirit can elevate a wealth of cocktails with its sweet/uncloying lychee character, balanced with lavender, summer herbs, and lemon finish.

Drink up for science: the methodical minds of RND Vodka use a continuous glass column distillation method to create their small batch spirit, and are donating 5% of profits to science education.

From Jalisco, the newly released small batch Karma tequila is made with a multiple distillation process and no additives. Silver available now; reposado and anejo versions are currently aging.

Attention pyro wannabes: please make sure there’s sober supervision before making any of these drinks you can set on fire; we want you to continue to live – and to read The Awesomer afterwards.

Those tenacious brewmasters at Coors found a tasty pre-Prohibition secret recipe buried in the basement and decided to go for it. The result is Batch 19 – a lager with a bold, hoppy flavor.

The new Rich Oak 14-Year Old from Glenfiddich has significant flavors of oak, sweet vanillas and light fruit, due to a short maturation in both new European (12 weeks) and American (6 weeks) oak.

Kill two vices with one stone (or spin) with the Drinking Roulette Set; it includes 16 shot glasses and two beads, with each cup matching to a corresponding red or black slot on the wheel.

Forget those cheapo wine racks; Restoration Hardware’s Factory Table Wine Rack features cast aluminum arches that are perfectly angled to keep the wine in contact with the cork.

Stay under par and under the influence at the same time with the Covert Golf Bag Cooler; it’ll fit into your golf bag shoe compartment while keeping nine 12 oz cans on ice.

It’s always a good time to drink with the Happy Hour Watch: this combination digital and analog timepiece has a buckle on its strap that also conveniently doubles as a bottle opener. Thanks, Mike!

Its name is nearly as “twisted” as its function: the Big Screw Bottle Opener is a hybrid beer and wine bottle opener made with solid aluminum that attaches to your keychain.