Campfire Beer Caramelizer Wants to be your Cold Weather Friend

It’s late August, and already the mornings are getting cool and the Aspens are starting to change colors here in Colorado. That means that the masses will soon be sitting outside around fire pits roasting marshmallows. Assuming the burn bans are ever lifted. While your kids eat some gooey s’mores, the adults can caramelize a beer and drink up fireside with this gadget.

It’s called the Campfire Beer Caramelizer and promises to add a rich frothy texture and sweet, smoky taste you your beer by caramelizing the natural sugars in alcohol. The idea is that you plunge this poker into the fire and get it nice and hot. Then you cram it down the gullet of your beer glass, remove it, and drink up. You may have never heard of caramelizing beer, but apparently this is a German tradition.

The tool isn’t pointy and has a wooden beer tap handle, so you don’t stab yourself in the eye with a hot poker, or caramelize your hand while using it. This is perhaps the greatest campfire gadget for beer fans ever, and you can grab one for $35 via UncommonGoods.

Game of Thrones Jon Snow Beer: Tipsy is Coming

People love HBO’s Game of Thrones, so of course the merchandising tie-in volume has been pretty heavy. You can buy GoT-themed Funko Pops, action figures, plushes, and much more. The latest entry vying for you to pay the gold price comes from New York brewery Ommegang who has partnered with HBO Licensing for their newest Game of Thrones-themed beer.

This beer is called “King in the North,” and draws inspiration from Jon Snow. It is the fourth and final beer in the company’s Royal Reserve Collection. It’s aptly named because after you’ve had a few of these, “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”

It is described as “brewed to sustain a leader through a long, dark night, King in the North is a barrel-aged imperial stout.” Sounds good to me. King in the North will be available at Brewery Ommegang and select retail stores on Black Friday, November 23rd. The beer will be available both on draft and in 750ml bottles for $12.99 each. The beer will also come as part of a gift pack, which includes all four Royal Reserve collection beers and a Game of Thrones glass for $24.99.

The already existing beers include Hand of the Queen, a barleywine; Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, a sour blonde blend; and Mother of Dragons, a smoked porter and kriek blend.

[via The Full Pint via Comic Book]

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RPG Dice for Beer Lovers: Rolled Hops

Here’s a critical hit to your sobriety. These Beer Dice from Artisan Dice are pretty much your typical tabletop gaming dice, except they contain compressed hops encased in crystal meth resin, and are also inlaid with brass numbers.

Pretty cool. Beautiful even. Elegant. As long as they don’t roll across the table like they’re drunk, then it’s all good. If they do, I guess you can use these to simulate a drunk character in your D & D game. These dice aren’t cheap though.

A single d20 will cost you $53, and a complete ten die polyhedral set (a d20, d12, d10, d%, d8, four d6’s, and a d4), will cost you $283. That’s pretty crazy, but then again they are beer dice. I wouldn’t even know how to make my own. Do I use Coors or Pabst Blue Ribbon? Or something classier? I have no idea. Do I just boil dice in beer on the stove? So many questions. I would just end up passed out, with beer and melted dice all over the floor. I think I’ll leave it to the experts.

[via Nerdist via Geekologie]