Monday Morning Wakeup Call: Wisconsin

What a week this will be.  College football is fast approaching.  Get the funnels out!

How To Choose The Healthiest Drinks

Here's a nice infographic from Greatist on how to choose the healthiest drinks by type and calories.

 

Chill Puck. The Next Generation of Can Coolers

On the hot days of the early tailgating season, if your drinking pace slows down, you run the risk of having a warm beer at the end of your can.  The Chill Puck aims to combat this problem.  The Chill Puck consists of a freezable plastic disk and a Chill Band that holds it to your can, giving the can a sweet base of ice to sit upon.

As you can see from the pictures, the band helps keep the puck in contact with both major sizes of beer cans, the traditional and the slimmer Coors Light can.  These will also fit tightly into a standard collapsible coozie.

Freezing the pucks is a quick proposition.  Toss in the freezer overnight.  When you are ready for action, just press your can down into the puck and the Chill Band will grab hold.  I'd recommend having two of these bad boys, so you always have one in the cooler staying cold for its chance at glory.  If your beer isn't cold, don't expect a miracle.  This won't make it ice cold, but it WILL keep a cold beer cold longer.

The Chill Puck currently comes in white, gray, black and glow in the dark green.  For an additional fee, you can get a custom design of your very own.

Check out their website at: http://www.ChillPuck.com/
Follow them on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/chill_puck

Can Grips and Bottle Grips

The Can Grip and the Bottle Grip are a pair of tools that are a great addition to anyone's tailgating arsenal.  The grips snap solidly onto either a can or a bottle, and keeps your hand warm and your brew cold.

These are made out of plastic, and when they click onto the can or the bottle, you can feel how solid the mount is.  There is no concern about spilling at all. 

Both the can and bottle handles gives you a firm grip, and feels like a well built mug handle in your hand.

They both come in a number of colors.  The can grip also comes in 12, 16, and 24 oz, as well as the european 330ml.

Check them out at http://www.CanGrip.com! 

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Introducing The Chuggler

The Chuggler is a 30 oz beer mug that also doubles at a beer bong.  Gone are the days of clear tubing and a funnel.  With this mug, you can go from zero to hero simply by pulling the tube off the holder.

The tubing is connected very firmly on both ends, leaving no concern that it might come off while drinking at a normal pace.  But when you are ready to rock it out, remove the top hose and prepare for the rush.

So step up your game and toss your funnel and hose.  For ~$20, you can pick from 8 colors and be drinking like a champion in no time!

Check them out at http://chuggler.com/, and follow them on Twitter @MrChuggler.

The Ultimate Beer Shotgun Opener Keychain

Here is the ultimate beer shotgun opener keychain.  This 3 in 1 device is great for opening bottles, opening can tabs, and putting a nice shotgun hole into a beer can.

Click for larger viewOpening a bottle was not a problem, nor was opening a can.  The one concern I had was using the shotgun portion of it on harder cans, like Heineken, but that worked great too.  You can store this easily on your keychain.  

Check it out at: http://www.drinkinginnovations.com/

Coozie Coolers - Keep Those Drinks Cool!

We've all had it happen...  We get a frosty cold beverage out of the cooler, and get side tracked, and the drink gets warm.  Nothing worse than a warm drink!

Enter the Coozie Cooler.  This brilliant device is a small ice pack the shape of the bottom of a can, and sits in the bottom of your Coozie, keeping things cold while you tend to tailgating games, the grill, or whatever else needs attention.

They are cheap enough to keep a few in the cooler, so when you get a new drink, you can swap out for a new Coozie Cooler.

To buy your very own Coozie Coolers, check them out at cooziecoolers.com.

Dizzy Bat Gone Wrong: But He Didn't Spill The Beer

Wow.

Nothing like watching a nice game of Dizzy Bat, and getting a bat the face.  Nice save on the beer though!

Too Many Bottle Openers?

Tailgating Times  has a great article about the many different kinds of bottle openers that are available out there.

I was quite surprised at many of the cool designs.

Check it out: http://www.tailgatingtimes.com/index.php?/archives/311-Too-Many-Bottle-Openers.html

Grandmas shotgunning beers at Michigan

Wow, get a load of this!  I hope I'm still hitting it this hard when I'm that age: