Drinks

Chill drinks up to 200x faster than with ice alone by spinning your cans, dropping the temperature of beverages by 45ºF in one minute. The SpinChill can help cool off up to 300 cans on one set of batteries. Save 20% in The Awesomer Shop.

Anheuser-Busch joins the alcoholic root beer revival with their own take on the trendy, but tasty beverage. Best Damn Root Beer really does taste like the spicy and vanill-y soda pop, but with a hint of hops, and a kick that’ll surprise you – especially after 2 or 3 or ’em.

Andre Sousa presents an amusing comparison of the way simple way that cocktails were once made, and the “artisanal” cocktails are made at bars these days. The only thing they got wrong was the modern drink needs to be 1/3rd the size for 3x the price.

Serve your friends a setup of your favorite brews with this pub-style beer flight tasting set. Includes a solid oak wooden serving paddle that holds four included 5oz. glasses. Available in The Awesomer Shop.

Step up your whiskey game with some spherical ice cubes. These silicon rubber ice molds create a 2.5″ ice ball that will help keep your drink chilled for a long time, and looks cool doing it. The set makes two ice spheres in about 4 hours.

What’s that you say? You need to step away and take a call? It may look like a smartphone, but it’s actually a flask for your favorite spirits. The iFlask holds 5oz. and doubles as a bottle opener for those times when you prefer beer to whiskey. It’s 46% off in The Awesomer Shop.

Don’t have a drinking buddy? Scotch whisky maker Lagavulin and Nick Offerman will keep you company. Here’s a 45-minute video of the actor silently sipping whiskey by the crackling fire, with a degree of restraint diametrically opposed to his Fargo character.

A very special single malt scotch whisky, The Macallan Rare Cask is a drinkable essay in complexity. We love the wonderfully sweet and spicy balance of flavors like chocolate, cinnamon, and vanilla, held together with a bold, yet incredibly smooth body of dried fruits.

Scotch whisky maker The Famous Grouse partnered up with Owl’s Brew to create special teas to complement to their spirits. The Smoky Earl works beautifully with the peaty Black Grouse, while The Famous Mint Tea balances with the fruity notes of The Famous Grouse.

A wonderfully flavorful and smooth premium white rum with oak, pear and honeysuckle notes, created through a special double-aging process in white oak barrels. Try with lemon, sugar and soda for a fantastic Maestro Collins.

Blade and Bow offers up two award-winning Kentucky straight bourbons – a wonderfully easy to drink whiskey with a hint of pear and a spicy finish, and a smokey, oaky and wintry 22-year, both of which leverage heritage batches from the legendary Stitzel-Weller distillery.

After making a sandwich and a suit from scratch, How to Make Everything host Andy George shows us how to create a soda fountain favorite from raw ingredients. It only cost him $900 and took days of work, but at least he can call it “handcrafted.” Watch every step here.

The holidays can be stressful. Take the edge off the days leading up to Christmas with this sweet advent calendar loaded with 24 individual 50ml Heritage Distilling vodkas, gins, and whiskeys for your tasting pleasure. Save $10 if you order by 11/1/15.

The best sipping tequila we’ve ever let pass over our tastebuds – this exclusive Gran Patrón is a 3-year aged extra añejo, which gives it a rich agave flavor that’s balanced by vanilla, mushroom and oak. Well worth the price tag for special occasions.

Beloved readers, if you want a shot with a citrusy kick and a hint of warmth at the finish, go get yourself the newest libation in the coolest bottle from Captain Morgan – which they’ve just released with an explosive launch (literally).

Author Matthew Rowley was given a old book of poetry. The book contained a secret manuscript with hundreds of recipes for compounding ingredients to create imitations of banned liquors. Learn which ones are worth replicating and which are downright dangerous.

We’ve got hoverboards, Nike powerlaces, and now the latest 10/21/15 prophesied product from Back to the Future II is upon us. Pepsi will be making just 6,500 bottles of Pepsi Perfect, and they’ll sell for about $20 each. Now we just need the Cubs to make the World Series.

Combining Canadian whiskey with premium ingredients, Studebaker’s old fashioneds and manhattans are shockingly good for pre-mixed cocktails. They’ll make you look like a pro bartender, and are more reasonably priced than buying the individual ingredients.

Save 62% off the regular price on a 15-pack of Think Drinks. Designed by neuroscientists, they’re powered by scientifically proven ingredients like oxiracetam, citicoline, L-theanine, carnitine and good old caffeine to help increase focus, attention and productivity.

Regardless of its looks, we don’t recommend filling this jerry can flask with gasoline, but you’re welcome to go with an equally potent booze of your choice. Made from stainless steel with a mirror finish, and holds 6oz.

A TSA-approved kit that has everything you need to make an Old Fashioned, a gin and tonic or a Moscow mule mid-flight. Well, everything except alcohol of course. Stupid rules. Each kit makes two cocktails.

A deliciously zesty and lightly sweet accompaniment to vodka, whiskey, or rye, Rocky’s Ginger Beer is handcrafted with pure sugar, is caffeine-free, and has no artificial colors. If you don’t feel like boozing, it’s light and refreshing straight from a chilled bottle.

Get your home bar going right with this bar kit that includes a Mason jar shaker, double jigger, strainer, spouts, stirrer and a hardwood muddler. Includes a digital recipe guide to get you started. Save 34% off the MSRP.

Jim Beam’s latest flavored whiskey creation adds a touch of apple liquor to its Kentucky bourbon, for a sweet and tart flavor that’s perfect with soda and a twist of lemon, or mix it with Kentucky Fire for a cinnamon apple pie.

Anheuser-Busch shows several traditional toasts from different countries. Humans really are a funny lot. The things we value can be so arbitrary. Except for the bit about buying everyone a round. That one’s universally appreciated.