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Is this beer dispenser metal?

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Jan.22, 2011

A com­pany, appro­pri­ately called Gri­nOn Indus­tries, has devel­oped a rapid beer dis­pens­ing sys­tem (shall we term this a RBDS?) called Bot­toms Up. This amaz­ing tech­nol­ogy fills spe­cial beer cups up from the bot­tom. Check out the demonstration:

IMG_4738The cap on the valve at the bot­tom of the cup is a mag­net. Now, obvi­ous poten­tial tech­ni­cal issues aside – just how strong is this mag­net? what hap­pens if you acci­den­tally knock it off while try­ing to drink your beer? — this seems pretty cool. It could totally work at metal fes­ti­vals, where lines for beer are all too often a mas­sive problem.

I’m still a big fan of Wacken’s solu­tion to the prob­lem of hav­ing to line up at the bar – roam­ing beer back­pack peo­ple (left). Day and night, these war­riors of drunk­en­ness roam the fes­ti­val grounds refill­ing beer cups from a hose attached to a refrig­er­ated back­pack. They also have Jager­meis­ter dis­pensers (hey, this is Germany).

Admit­tedly, roam­ing beer back­pack­ers are a lot more lo-fi than amaz­ing mag­net magic beer cup fillers — but hey, it works! The wan­der­ing back­pack barstaff  eas­ily are the most pop­u­lar peo­ple on the Wacken grounds.

Hat tip: Wired Play­book

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Lemmy on the Ace of Spades beer commercial

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Jan.14, 2011

Lemmy has again shown why he is God. From a recent inter­view with Q Mag­a­zine, on re-recording Motorhead’s clas­sic track Ace of Spades for a Kro­nen­bourg 1664 commercial:

“It’s a sign that we got paid a lot of money by a beer com­pany. They asked us to do it and I said yes,” Lemmy said. “How much? None of your business.”

While no one’s sur­prised that money exchanged hands – we weren’t born yes­ter­day – what’s refresh­ing is Lemmy’s “fuck you” hon­esty about the whole thing. So take that, every­one who said he’d sold out – peo­ple need money to live. And it’s a beer com­mer­cial – I can’t think of any­thing more metal than that. Good on ya Lemmy!

Source: Blab­ber­mouth

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We wish you a beery Christmas

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Dec.27, 2010

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Regard­less of your beliefs, I hope every­one had a great hol­i­day filled with our two most favourite things: metal and beer!

in hon­our of the sea­son, I point you to this post from the excel­lent No Clean Singing blog. Part of their ongo­ing series of “That’s Metal – But it’s Not Music” posts, they give us The Beer Can Christ­mas Tree. It’s well worth going over to take a look, so go on. I’ll wait.

Appar­ently mighty edi­fice is made up of 308 cans, 3x 5-litre beer kegs, and a “fuck load” of tape and glue. It’s a thing of beauty for sure, and we con­grat­u­late NCS reader “Bob McBob­bob” who put it together. Good on ya mate.

Any­one got a Christ­mas mir­a­cle to beat that one? Leave a comment!

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Lemmy’s Kronenbourg gamble

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Dec.15, 2010

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This is prob­a­bly old news by now — but hey, around here, we’re all about our tak­ing it easy.

In a sur­pris­ing change of pace, Lemmy has recorded a slowed-down acoustic ver­sion of the clas­sic ode to gam­bling Ace Of Spades for a beer com­mer­cial — notably, Kro­nen­bourg 1664. The song has also been made avail­able as a free down­load, but only if you’re using Spo­tify.

The reac­tions from around the place have been var­ied. Met­al­Sucks expressed out­rage with NOW WE HAVE A REASON TO BE ASHAMED OF MOTORHEAD, TOO. But most of the com­menters on that post were much more chilled out about the whole thing — for starters, Kro­nen­bourg has a rep­u­ta­tion as a very good beer and hell… it’s Lemmy. The man is a god to most metal die hards — he’d have to some­thing a lot more dras­tic than an acoustic beer com­mer­cial to tar­nish his reputation.

I think the song sounds cool and hell, a nice cold Kro­nen­bourg would go down a treat right about now.

The com­mer­cial is below — what do you think? Is it a sell out, or do some peo­ple need to chill out?

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Deep fried beer doesn’t taste that great?

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Sep.27, 2010

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It turns out that fried beer (we blogged about it here), the win­ner of “Most Cre­ative” although not best over­all deep fried food prod­uct at the Texas State Fair, might not taste all that great.

Debra Can­field of East Dal­las took one bite of Fried Beer and imme­di­ately had bit­ter beer face.

She spit it out.

Can­field said it was too salty and tasted too much like Fried But­ter, last year’s hit.

“The warm beer makes it taste like ravi­oli that hasn’t been cooked,” Can­field said.

It’s pos­si­ble that the prob­lem was that they used some crappy Amer­i­can beer like Bud­weiser. Has any­one tasted it or tried mak­ing it?

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Don’t pour sugar on this one

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Sep.12, 2010

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Joe Elliott, front­man of ven­er­a­ble Eng­lish rock out­fit Def Lep­pard, is launch­ing his own beer next week in Dublin. Accord­ing to RTE, it’s “a pil­sner style” that has “a deep, rich malt char­ac­ter, with gen­er­ous hop bitterness”.

But get this – it’s called Down ‘n’ Outz, which is appar­ently the name of his side-project. What is he try­ing to tell us about his musi­cal career?

So who wants to try a beer named after a down n‘ out rocker?

Here’s Def Lep­pard in less des­per­ate times:

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Deep fried beer–no, really

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Sep.09, 2010

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Met­al­heads gen­er­ally aren’t known for their super-healthy lifestyles. But I reckon this might make even the most sea­soned drinker balk.

Some­one in Texas (where else) – let’s call him an ‘entre­pre­neur’ – has come up with a recipe for deep fried beer, patent pend­ing. Appar­ently it’s actu­ally a pretzel-like dough filled with beer and briefly deep fried. Briefly so as not to affect the alco­hol con­tent, of course.

The ‘inven­tion’ will be pre­miered at a fried food com­pe­ti­tion in Texas, an insti­tu­tion that last year awarded recipe for deep fried butter.

Inven­tor Mark Zable is quoted as saying:

“Nobody has been able to fry a liq­uid before. It tastes like you took a bite of hot pret­zel dough and then took a drink of beer.”

His pre­vi­ous culi­nary achieve­ments have included chocolate-covered straw­berry waf­fle balls and jalapeño corn­dog shrimps. I bet he’s one fat dude!

Five ravioli-sized pieces will cost USD $5. I’m guess­ing at that rate it would take you a long time – not to men­tion a fair wad of cash — to get drunk.

Read more here but first, leave a com­ment: would you try a deep fried mouth­ful of beer?

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Beer as part of a healthy diet

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Jul.19, 2010

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Euro­pean metal fes­ti­val sea­son is in full swing, and met­al­heads in camp­grounds all over Europe are indulging in the tra­di­tional beer break­fast. Accord­ing to a new study, they could be doing their bones a favour.

Researchers at the Depart­ment of Food Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia have dis­cov­ered that beer con­tains dietary sil­i­con in a highly digestible form. That means it’s good for increas­ing the min­eral den­sity of your bones.

Of course, the study did say “mod­er­ate” beer con­sump­tion may be ben­e­fi­cial. They also pointed out that there are many other sources of dietary sil­i­con, includ­ing oat­meal, dried dates, gra­nola cereal and high-fiber wheat bran cereal.

But that just sounds like a recipe for beer on your cereal to me!

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The Summer Breeze metal beer keg

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Jul.17, 2010

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Not only is it totally metal, it’s made out of metal…

The Sum­mer Breeze metal fes­ti­val is held in Dinkels­bühl, Ger­many in late August – 31 days from the time of post­ing, in fact. As at most out­door fes­ti­vals, beer is not served in glasses or glass bot­tles, due to safety con­cerns. While it’s kind of annoy­ing, I can’t help think­ing that there is some merit to remov­ing sharp mate­ri­als from events with 40,000 plus drunk metalheads.

For those con­nois­seurs who would pre­fer not to drink out of plas­tic cups, there’s another option: a 5 litre keg of Sum­mer Breeze beer can be pur­chased for 15 Euros. If you pre-order, the first 1000 units will come with a cooler bag.

It seems like it might be a lit­tle unweildy to carry around, but on the other hand it’s pretty good value. No word on what the brew is like, unfortunately!

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Fucking Hell–the beer, that is

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Jul.13, 2010

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From the “hilar­i­ous but true” files, a Ger­man brew­ery has won the trade­mark to mar­ket a beer called “Fuck­ing Hell”. But get your mind out of the gut­ter — ‘hell’ is a Ger­man term that can mean“light ale” and “Fuck­ing” is the name of a small town in Aus­tria that goes through a lot of town name signs. See? It’s all per­fectly innocent.

The peo­ple of Fuck­ing – pro­nounced “fook­ing” in Ger­man, much like it is in the North of Eng­land – are less than impressed. There’s only 90 or so of them, and they’ve had the name for 800 years. From the Aus­trian Times:

Franz Meindl, the People’s Party (ÖVP) mayor of Fuck­ing, reacted say­ing: “We just want to be left alone. There are all these sto­ries about our town’s name all the time – espe­cially in sum­mer. Every­body writes what they want.”

I don’t know when the beer is going into pro­duc­tion or where it’s going to be avail­able, but that’s gotta be the most metal beer I’ve ever heard of. Some­one send in a pic­ture, please!

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