Do you love drinking 40s, but hate the fact that the end is always warm? You need a 40 cozy, son! A couple of weeks ago we were lucky enough to have a couple of 40 cozies show up at the Tasty Booze test labs. The idea is so simple it’s genius. I have been drinking 40s since before I was legal and the problem has always been that the booze is always warm once you get to the last quarter of the 40. Even if you go the Brass Monkey route you are still going to end up with warm, orange juice flavored malt liquor.

The cozy itself is pretty basic, as it should be. It is made out of your standard neoprene type cozy material with a handle stitched to the side. The bottle slides into the cozy, your hand slides through the handle and then you are ready to get down to business. Let’s be honest, it’s a cozy, not a fucking rubik’s cube.

Last Friday I stopped by the local Safeway and picked up a couple of Bud Heavy 40s so that Honcho and I could give these things a proper run through. I opted for the couture design and Honcho rolled with the bandana model. The cozy fits nice and tight around the 40, and despite the band that runs underneath the bottle, the 40 was stable when you set it down on a table. The handle on the cozy works well and gives you a little extra sense of security when you are holding the big ass bottle. I wouldn’t recommend trying to hold a full 40 by just the handle during normal use, but we tried it. While the handle held, it was pretty hard to keep the 40 under control.

In order to really test the cold retention capabilities of the cozy, Honcho and I decided we needed to slow down our normal drinking pace a little. We fired up the old Rock Band machine and started jamming. I would say it took us about 45 minutes to finish our 40s and both were cool to the last drop. They weren’t refrigerator cold but they were definitely cooler than if we were brown-bagging it.

Bottom line, if you drink 40s on a regular basis do yourself a favor and get a 40 cozy.

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Check out the TrackPack. Quite possibly one of the best mobile beer cooling / drinking devices that I have come across. We Tasty Boozers were lucky enough to have one of these bad boys show up on our door step last Friday so that we can take a first hand look at it (unfortunately it did not come with the girl).

The TrackPack is kind of like one of those flexible cooler bags that you used to take your lunch to school in except it holds 20 beers. However this isn’t some bag that you just haphazardly throw 20 beers in. The TrackPack comes with a plastic rack system that holds the beers in columns of five and allows them to drop out of the two well placed lower side pockets. It also came with three flexible ice packs that you freeze and then drop in around the plastic rack to keep your beers ice cold for hours.

We have had some shitty weather here in Seattle lately so we haven’t had a chance to get the TrackPack outdoors and use it properly. However, the Mariners baseball season just kicked off and Honcho suggested that we take it down to the Mariners tailgate, so I think we are going to get that on the calendar for next week and give this TrackPack a proper outdoor test run.

Rules are simple, and yet, ingenious…

1) Set-up a standard checkerboard using shot glasses and half shots of beer

2) When you jump the opponents checker, they drink the shot and remove the glass from the board

3) When you get Kinged, you fill your shot all the way

4) Loser drinks all remaining shots on the table

A mere $13.95 for the shot glasses and checkerboard….and free if you happen to be in a fraternity.  The last time I played checkers was in 6th grade I think, but this would have made it a lot more fun.  I suppose real men at my age would play with tequila though.  Any takers?

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If you enjoy a good game of beer pong, but find that hauling around a regulation size ping pong table is a pain in the ass, then you need take a whiff of what Pong A Long is cooking. Their portable 8′ long by 2′ wide (regulation size) beer pong table is the cat’s ass.

We Tasty Boozers were fortunate enough to have one of these bad boys delivered to our humble abode last Wednesday. Lucky for us we were headed up to the mountains for a weekend of winter sports and beer drinking along with 25 of our closest friends. This gave us the perfect opportunity to put the table through the paces and see how it functioned in a packed, party cabin environment.

One thing you have to realize is that the Pong A Long table folds up into a 2′ by 2′ square that is about 5.5″ thick with briefcase type handles. This makes it a breeze to transport. It fit in the backseat of my lady friend’s car, and was easy to carry from place to place. Not many people knew that the table was going to be making an appearance at the party cabin and when I showed up everyone wanted to know what the big white box was. They were stoked to find out it was a beer pong table. The best part was that everyone assumed we needed a table to set it on. A few of our crafty friends started to debate whether we should set it on the kitchen table or the pool table. I left them to their pointless shenanigans and began to unfold the beast. When I started to extend the legs of the table there were at least five, “Oh…Holy shit is has legs!” I promptly responded with “Of course it has fuckin’ legs. What kind of bush league beer pong table did you think I showed up with?”

The table worked great but let’s be honest, when you have 25 people looking to get drunk, two on two beer pong isn’t the best/quickest way to accomplish the task. So after a couple of standard beer pong games we decided to appease the restless crowd and start a flip cup tournament. The length and width of the table allowed two four-man flip cup teams to square off face to face with room to spare lengthwise and the perfect amount of shit talking space separating them.

So, the Pong A Long table really gives you at a minimum a double threat beer drinking accessory, not to mention it will save your regular ping pong table from the abuse of a beer pong/Beirut/flip cup game. Check out the product page to see more pictures and the other tables that Pong A Long offers.

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SIDENOTE:
Here is my favorite exchange from the flip cup tournament:

Girl 1: We are going to be team Mustaches.
Girl 2 (member of an opposing team): How about team Dirty Sanchez.
Girl 1: I don’t even like poop.

For those of you that don’t know last weekend was the big college football rivalry game between the University of Washington and Washington State University known as the Apple Cup. The game was played in Seattle this year and it provided the perfect opportunity to take Das Boot out and introduce him to the WSU tailgate crowd. Honcho was kind enough to let me borrow his Jack Bauer messenger bag for transportation of Das Boot making it easy to move from tailgate to tailgate without fear of dropping and breaking Das Boot.

It took a couple of hours for the tailgate crowd to warm up but by 2:30 p.m. chants of “Das Boot!” could be heard sporadically through out the party. It was Yerzimbeck that pulled seven ice cold Busch Lights out of his cooler and said, “Let’s fill that fucker up!” to get the first Das Boot started. I kicked off the festivities with the first drink but didn’t last long once the brain freeze from the ice cold booze lights set in. Cory stepped up to bat about 10 minutes after the first Das Boot was finished and filled it up with Budweiser. You can definitely tell the difference moving from Busch Light to straight up Anheusers.

About six of us headed back to my place to watch the game on TV after the tailgate parties. We ended up doing two more boggs filled Das Boots during the game. Drinking a 7 beer Das Boot in a circle of 6 people is one way to get fucked up fast.

The best part about doing the group Das Boot is that you get to see multiple bubbles. In Beerfest one guy drank the whole boot so there was only one bubble. When you are dealing with a group, depending on the magnitude of drinkers you have got, you are going to see at least 2 but possibly 5 bubbles as people try to drink down past the ankle but then turn the boot upright again. Bubble 2 is usually the best because the drinker thinks the poor sap before of them took care of the bubble and then it hits them in the face. Here are few pictures of Das Boot making the rounds at the tailgate party. Just for reference the picture above is Das Boot with about 5 beers. It takes at least 7 beers to fill it up to an acceptable group drinking level.

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Last Friday was a glorious day for all of us Tastyboozers. The UPS man left a 2 litre bier boot on my door step from Bier Boot Haus, purveyors of the finest glass bier boots one can find here in the U.S. Needless to say, things around my house just got a whole lot cooler. Below are my initial reactions to DAS BOOT. Next week we will have a full review of DAS BOOT including action shots and a possible video of our DAS BOOT debauchery.

Initial Reactions

1. This thing is awesome. The glass is thick and I don’t think the boot would break easily. That being said I definitely wouldn’t say that it is meathead strong. If you have one buddy that likes to slam things around you might want to keep the boot away from him.
2. The boot is listed as 2 litres but it holds way more than that. One litre is roughly 33.8 ounces (thank you Google), so for you mathematically challenged boozers that is 67.6 ounces or 5.6 12 ounce beers. It took 7 12 ounce boggs or 84 total ounces to fill the boot up to the level you see in the pictures below.
3. The air bubble made famous in movie Beerfest is real. I think the movie exaggerated the intensity of the bubble but I experienced it first hand. It doesn’t blast you in the face but you will get some serious wave pool action going that makes it hard not to spill.
4. DAS BOOT is daunting. You can chug and chug and chug and when you finally go to pass it off it looks like you didn’t even take a drink.

If you have been living under a rock and you aren’t familiar with the DAS BOOT the basic rules of drinking are below.

Bier Boot Haus ‘Haus’ Game Rules

The beer boot is passed around a group with individuals taking a sip and passing to the left (unless multiple boots are in use). Once the boot is first picked up, it cannot touch the table until finished. Each player must flick the beer boot prior to and after taking a sip. The person who finished the beer boot second to last is required to refill the boot.

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