Draft beer in your own home is most beer drinkers’ preferred way of having their pint (no tinny taste from the can). Krups are now about to launch in the USA the BeerTender which delivers a crisp, fresh perfectly chilled draft beer which will stay fresh for upto 30 days. The unit has been engineered to work exclusively with Heineken and Heineken Premium Light DraftKegs.

The BeerTender is simple to set up and operate, and you have a choice of chill temperature settings depending on your preference. It also has a display which tells you how much you have left, and how long you have before you need to re-stock. It’s the perfect thing to have when you’re having a summer BBQ or a bit of a gathering (which we seem to do rather too often, particularly when we decide to have a poker night!)

The BeerTender is due for launch in March 08, and should be available nationwide in the USA from April 08. Prices start from $380 to $400 depending on model.

It’s thirsty work walking around the CES 2008 show, but if you are in need of refreshment in the form of a nice cold beer (or alternatively a soft drink of course) then you could use the remote control cooler from Interactive Concept Toys. Capable of storing up to 6 drinks and also collapsible for easy transportation it would make a great present for dad! Another feature is the carrying handle is good for picnics but what makes this cool is you can move it via remote control.

If you have plans to host one of the hottest parties in the neighborhood, it would be nice if the Peggy concept by Chetan Sorab was actually real.

Peggy is a wonderfully functional tool to help make parties the best on the block. This design is both a can opener and 30ml mixer that can open bottles of beer or mix the perfect drink for your holiday festivities.

Just don’t get too drunk while mixing drinks for your guests, or somebody else might actually snatch Peggy from right under your nose.

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Fancy sprucing up your cocktails at the upcoming party you’re hosting? Do it in style with Strawz.

This ingenious DIY kit allows you to construct your own ludicrously convoluted drinking straw set-ups. Forget about puny figure-of-eights and simple loops. With Strawz you can create maze-style, multi-drink straw systems with more bends than the bendiest road in Bendyville. Thanks to 20 assorted rubber connectors and 16 transparent straw sections you’ll never run out of ideas. We’ve just created a massive three-way, orange, lemon and loganberry drinking network that requires some serious suction.

Strawz currently retail for £9.95, so you might as well get a pack in time for the New Year.

Make your Christmas parties all the merrier without being thwarted by a stubborn cork with the Big Screw Drinks Opener.

The Big Screw, is not actually very big, and come to think of it, it isn’t a screw either, though if it were a screw, it would be big, as screws go. We may have laboured the point somewhat. Size aside, the little Big Screw is an ingenious piece of dipsomaniac design. Whilst we often have something on us to open a beer bottle (even if it’s our teeth), getting into a bottle of wine without a corkscrew is a whole different ball game. This stylish little key ring will of course open beer and pop bottles (thus saving your gnashers from a horrible fate), but it also conceals a corkscrew, so access to wine is no longer an issue. Of course it also looks deeply stylish, tooled as it is from stainless steel, and coming with a tough fob ring and rather natty tag. Never be beaten by a wine bottle again!

This nifty little kitchen gadget can be yours for £9.99.

It goes without saying that any decent party needs a bar and a bartender manning it. Cocktails are definitely a must, so why not let your bartender concoct those refreshing drinks in style? The Dual-Fuel Cocktail Shaker comes in a nickel-plated stainless steel and brass body, featuring a couple of slide-off wings that double up as flasks. This nifty drinking device retails for $100 – telling the whole world you have money to burn (and the possibility of a drinking problem…)

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Ah, with the holiday season upon us yet again, many people will be celebrating it with some drinks to make the occasion all the more merry. The Shot Caller targets thrill seekers who love getting smashed at parties, functioning as a timer for those who want to indulge themselves in the Power Hour ritual. For those who are out of the loop, Power Hour requires a person to take one shot of beer, each minute for the whole hour – that amounts to approximately five beers. A loud buzzer from the Shot Caller lets you know it is time to gulp yet another shop, keeping track of the time gap. I suppose after having too many shots, even a stopwatch in your hand is useless, hence the need for this $15 device.

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Just when you thought Nintendo has fully and completely saturated the marketplace with Super Mario Bros. related products, there’s always a surprise up their sleeve to make you part with your hard earned Yen (or Dollars or Pounds).

The new Super Mario Power Up! Energy Drink is a Nintendo marketing executive’s most delicious fantasy. The new energy drink is supposed to taste like “blue-raspberry”, but I have a feeling if it’s like most energy drinks, it’ll taste like week-old plumbers socks. However, as it is popular with other energy drinks, I sense this product will find its way into a mix of ice and vodka. Read the rest of this entry »