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The 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

In a move that was surely made just to give this blog something to write about, Jester King Craft Brewery in Austin Texas – a very new venture, by the look of it – has announced Black Metal Imperial Stout:

Black Metal Imperial Stout, a.k.a. Suds of Northern Darkness, a.k.a. Iron Sword, a.k.a. El Martillo del Muerte. Black Metal is a cruel and punishing beer fermented by the sheer force of its awesome will. We are pretty sure that Kreator wrote the song “Impossible Brutality” about this beer while drinking it during their Extreme Aggression Tour.

If you’re in the Austin area, here are some details of how you can get hold of some.

According to the brewer Jeffrey, the brew is “filled with huge flavors of roast, chocolate, burnt malt and alcohol and carries a hint of leather”. We’re a little worried about beer tasting of leather… I guess as long as it’s not sweaty old studded cod-piece leather it should be ok!

What’s the verdict – is this kvlt?

“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

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!

Watch the first video, Rules For Fools, below:

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You can’t say they don’t have an awesome time doing what they do!

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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A quick search reveals that the Cycle Sluts got together for a one off show in 2006 and while not looking to reform, are open to “special shows here and there”.

It’s just as well… they were funny, but I’m not sure the world needs too many metal bands with four chick singers!

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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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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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?