Awesome Liquor

Vodka maker Smirnoff is rolling out this limited-edition triple-distilled batch, packaged in an vibrant bottle in collaboration with French electro-DJ Vitalic. As long as it gives us a good buzz, we’re good.

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.

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?

Gummy bear shot glasses? The fact that it took 30,000 gummy bears to make the brick wall and that the glasses apparently are “freakin’ delicious” is reason enough to check out Vat19’s goofy video.

Beloved by bikers and a favorite of Sinatra (he was buried with a bottle), this Jack Daniel’s Chess Set celebrates its heritage; Jack serves as King while Black Label bottles are pawns.

A blend of 1,200 brandies aged between 40 to 100 years in a single cask, the Louis XIII Rare Cask is an ultra-premium bottling; it’ll come in a palladium-dressed black crystal decanter.

Pry open your brewskies with panache with the Top Gear Bottle Opener: it’s a bolt-like, stand-up chromed brass tool that can rip off caps rapidly either by hooking, pushing, or pulling.

Kraken Black Spiced Rum is as opaque as the ink from its namesake, but this spicy 94 proof drink will put hair on your peg leg and is good both alone and as a mixer; review here.

Limited to 12 decanters, Dalmore’s Sirius Single Malt is a 1951 vintage Scotch whisky available at World Duty Free stores; it’s from a single cask and bottled with a cask strength of 45%.

Make no bones about it: Fred’s Fossiliced ice cube trays are more Ice Age than Jurassic Park, but we’re chill with the idea of serving up Triceratops tonics and T-Rex tequilas.

Oh Beer & Pizza Bike, where have you been our entire lives: created by Portland’s Hopworks Urban Brewing, it’s a pedal-powered bar with two kegs and a pizza compartment.

Combining racing and drinking seems like a bad idea, but LugeCubes are molded ice cube trays that let you create the ultimate liquor run–just don’t get your tongue stuck in anticipation.

The inebriated are easily amused, but this ElectraPour should impress even the most sober of bar-hoppers: a red LED light illuminates the entire stream of liquor as you pour.

Reknowned for their Obsello Absinthe Verte, Esmeralda Distillery’s Port of Barcelona Gin is distilled in their absinthe stills and mixed with 13 botanicals for a Mediterranean flavor.

Staffed with Shaun of the Dead lookalike bartenders, Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den is a decidedly undead unfriendly bar: it’s got a chainsaw in the corner for those special outbreaks.