Beverages

Don’t waste time with plastic straws – ThinkGeek’s Titanium Drinking Straw is tasteless, odorless, has very low thermal conductivity, and is hefty enough to stab it right into the fruit you wish to drink.

Handcrafted with 100% pure Blue Agave, Espolón Tequila is known as much for its bold Dia de los Muertos-style graphic label by Posada as it is for the liquid inside; available in Blanco and Reposado.

Inspired by the Korean diver Meoguri and his single oxygen tank string, AbelPartners Design Studio’s fun silicone tea diver holds a belly full of loose tea while floating in your cup, infusing your beverage.

This twenty second commercial for Aldi in Britain starts out in typical explanatory fashion, but it’s well worth watching the whole thing just for the hilarious punchline at the end. (Thanks Andrew!)

The talent collective at Blue Q offers a funny series of packaged teas to clear up everyday problems, like erasing your past, getting good karma and being a better parent. Yes, but does it really work?

Opaque ice cubes are so passé: check out Jacky TC Wu’s Polar Ice Tray; the water freezes from top to bottom, removing impurities and allowing the ice to remain clear. Bonus: sculpture mold included.

Great PR: Coca-Cola put a “special” vending machine on a college campus which provided some surprises to the lucky students who happened to purchase something in it. (Thanks Bart!)

If you’ve ever wondered where your liver hails from, Exboyfriend’s tee provides a fun (and boozy) beverage map. Warning: spanning the globe in our evening is not recommended. (Thanks Meredith!)

Your colleagues will know how you’re feeling every morning with Thabto’s lighthearted Mood Mugs; the double wall insulated porcelain pieces feature simple facial expressions to reflect the mood.

Available in France, L’Art de la Dégustation by Kacper Hamilton for Ballantine’s is a whisky glass with an interior hole allowing for more air and aroma; a frozen metal base adds a delicate chill.

Scottish Spirits is producing whisky in a 12 ounce can. It’s being promoted as an outdoor venue option, since the packaging is recyclable. And also because people like to get all tore up outside.

SNAP, a spicy, artisanal spirit from Art In The Age, is a 100% organic, small-batch liqueur infused with a plethora of botanicals, like blackstrap molasses, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and rooibos tea.

ThinkGeek’s exclusive gourmet whole bean coffee, hand roasted by Stormtroopers, is perfect for Dark Lords of the Sith, or friends who enjoy spicy undertones with smoky, dark-roasted complexity.

The oenophile in your life will appreciate The Durand, a handsome and simple wine bottle opener that removes old and fragile corks whole and undamaged every time. (Thanks Lucas!)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smooth and lightly aromatic fenom is the first modern absinthe authentically handcrafted from traditional herbs including grand wormwood by one of France’s few remaining absinthe experts.

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.