Beverages

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.

Australian designer Tom Hussey has created Kegless, a bag-in-box packaging concept for carbonated beverages that provides a sustainable alternative to conventional single serve packages.

Quadrupled distilled and triple filtered through Herkimer diamonds, Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka from Newfoundland is a pure spirit free of additives, packaged in a supercool bottle.

The sleek mypressi Twist handheld espresso machine uses canisters of compressed N20 to make 6+ shots with consistent 9-bar (135psi) pressure throughout, for hot cups of awesomeness.

A terrific stop motion animation video created by 41? 29! for Binboa Vodka from Turkey, using 550 bottles drawn by hand for the animation and 5000 photos taken in over 100 hours of shooting.

Dutch beverage maker Medea is offering a small batch, wheat-based vodka that comes in a bottle with a 255 character/6 message programmable LED display. Haiku contest anyone?