Awesome Beer

Back in the day, beer cans didn’t have pop-tops and real men had to open their beers with a pointy opener called a “church key” (or a screwdriver if desperate.) Get ready for a blast from the past.

The Scorzie is a drink cozy that has built-in Home and Away score rings that go up to 21, perfect for scoring beer pong games. It could also be what Martin Scorsese’s closest friends call him.

There are lots of ways to open a bottle of beer, but you have to hand it to this guy for his ability to cleanly pop open a cold brew with just a bit more equipment than is necessary.

A miniature version of Dogfish Head’s beer infuser, the Randall Jr. lets you make a glass of flavored beer anytime you want. Place the ingredients inside, pour beer then refrigerate for 10 minutes.

You probably won’t be able to pry a door open with it, but you’ll easily pop some bottles with this Mini Halligan Bottle opener, a smaller version of the versatile tool used by firemen. (Thanks Andrew!)

Pop open a cold brew in second most manly way possible, with The Beer Tool. Each one starts out as a basic open-ended wrench, modified to perfectly open bottles, while looking good in your toolbox.

This ad for New Zealand’s DB Export Dry beer recalls a time where men had all but given up on beer, forced into sipping wine instead. Perfectly captures the era – especially the hairdos.

Combining the flavors of Voodoo Doughnut’s bacon and maple fried pastry with an ale seems like either the best or worst idea in the history of brewing, depending on your perspective.

We don’t know about you guys, but we prefer to savor our beer when we drink. But this strange character at a Japanese bar gulps down an entire mug of the cold, frosty stuff in one second flat.

You don’t have to take a trip to Moe’s or to Apu’s Kwik-E-Mart to score some of Homer’s favorite beer. You can have this pack delivered to your doorstep, straight from Springfield Germany.

These beer bottles are the bomb, literally. Too bad Marco Manansala’s BMG-10 Black Market Goods beer bottles are still only a concept. A brewery needs to pick up on this idea and license it – now.

Keep your beer at the perfect frosty temperature, 24 degrees Fahrenheit, using one of these specially-designed Beer Froster fridges, designed to maintain your brew at the optimal temperature.

The On-Ice Dispenser keeps your favorite drink accessible and cool without being diluted by the ice, which is isolated in the interior chamber. Has a maximum capacity of 80 oz.

Kick the keg to the curb and upgrade your outdoor parties with this stainless steel beer tap, powered by compressed CO2. Fully equipped, it can grill brats and burgers to go with your brewskies.

Bourbon drinkers have lollipops, so why shouldn’t beer connoisseurs have their own candy too? Available in creamy caramels and taffy, made with real beers like IPA, Lager, Stout and Lambic.

If you’re serious about home brewing and you want to do it with style and ease, the WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery might be perfect, assuming you care enough about your beer to spend $4,500.

We can’t imagine how much “research” went into UVA students Ross Thomas and Elizabeth Farrell 8000 piece, 7′ x 9′ beer bottle cap rendition of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Want to buy it? E-mail them.

While we don’t condone drinking beer and biking at the same time, it’s nice to know that there’s a handy way to carry your brew to the party while you ride. Handmade leather from Walnut Studiolo.

We’re not sure if the Discovery Network is playing an early April Fools Day prank or if there’s truth to the stories behind their special about beer’s world-transforming properties. Premieres 1/30.

The inventor of this iPhone-controlled beer robot deserves the next Nobel Prize. Not only does it let him check beer temp, he can choose a beer and fire a cold one across the room to himself.

There’s more than one way to brew beer, as is evidenced by this insanely complicated Rube Goldberg contraption from Trumer Pils which goes to great lengths to produce a cold pint.

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.”

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.