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How To Pour The Perfect Pint Of Guinness

St Paddy’s Day is this weekend! And as one of my favourite “holidays”, I celebrate by drinking Jameson and Guinness (I never drink Guinness). You probably do too. Here’s how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness from a can, according to Chow, so you can impress your friends.


March 14, 2012
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The Best Use Of Lego Mindstorms Ever

I seriously can’t imagine any better use for Lego Mindstorms than building a machine that can serve two types of Dutch beer, chilling them down at the perfect drinking temperature, opening the bottle and serving them. Can you? CAN YOU?


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Aussie Beer Stabiliser Ensures You’ll Never Spill A Drink Again — If It Existed

Hahn, an Australian brewery, is obviously in the wrong business. Instead of focusing on crafting fine ales, it should be further developing and commercialising this stabilising arm that guarantees you won’t spill a drop when being jostled about in a bar.


February 26, 2012
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Class Up Any Room With Beer Can Lighting

If you’ve been on the hunt for the perfect accessory for your new hidden mini fridge, your search is over. Etsy seller ZAL Creations has created this sophisticated track light lamp from recycled beer cans.


February 5, 2012
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Summermodo: Three Ways To Chill Your Beer Fast

It’s Saturday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s weekly booze column. A cocktail shaker full of innovation, science, and alcohol.


January 10, 2012
Gadgets

LG’s Blast Chiller Cools Cans In Under 5 Minutes

There’s a lot of talk about OLED and 3D and Google and bezels and, and, and — enough! Let’s get down to what matters. Beer takes too long to cool. Unless you buy one of LG’s forthcoming refrigerators. SmartBeer.


December 7, 2011
Gadgets

Photoblocking Beer Cooler Helps Preserve Your Nightclub Anonymity

So far it’s only been field tested in bars in northern Argentina, but I know plenty of remorseful partyers who would love this beer-cooling Photoblocker which promises to stop photos of your evening’s antics from showing up on Facebook.


November 19, 2011
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A Sound System Made Of 5000 Beer Cans

If my hangover existed in real life, it would be in the form of this 5000 beer can speaker system. Yup. All the beer I drank over the past few years booming different noises right inside my ear as I groggily make sense of what happened to my life.


November 8, 2011
Science

Cyborg Yeast Could Idiot-Proof Your Homebrew

Ever found yourself cooking up some of your home-brew, only to realise that your yeast isn’t playing ball? Panic no more, because cyborg yeast can switch itself on.


October 4, 2011
Software

Untapped For iPhone And Android: Foursquare For Beers

You really don’t need another social network. You also don’t need another reason to make drinking beer fun. But there’s something cool about tracking the beers you’ve drank, if only to see how many more beers you have to try. Untappd does just that.