The Growler Chill Is a Kegerator For Growlers

Getting your cold suds in a refillable growler is great way to bring fresh beer at home. But unless you’re going to drink the whole thing at once, there’s a good chance it’ll go flat in a hurry. The Growler Chill gives you options. It’s basically a tap for your growlers. It keeps up to three standard 60oz. growlers refrigerated and pressurized, right on your countertop. There’s even an oxygen purge system that goes an extra step towards keeping your brew as fresh and snappy as possible. It’s also a connected device that lets you control many of its features through your smartphone. It’s a $389 pledge, on a fully-funded campaign, with delivery slated for August 2017.

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ManCan Lets You Take Your Keg Outdoors

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What better combination than a cool afternoon hike, and a cold crisp beer straight out of a keg? The ManCan lets you carry your suds along with you, on your back, wherever your exploring ways take you.

The ManCan is a personal keg system that keeps your favorite beer fresh, carbonated, and delicious — the way it should be. Available in indestructible, 128oz (one-gallon) or 64oz (half-gallon) stainless steel. Two tap systems with the Perfect Pour Regulator can top these bad boys for the ultimate experience.

Each kit comes with two CO2 cartridges, a packet of cleaning tablets, and everything else you need to enjoy some malt liquor while off the beaten path. Or, you know, at home.

Prices start at $195.

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Hank The Beer Tank Is A Portable Keg

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Kegs are great: cold beer, fresh suds, crisp taste. But they’re also a bit of a mess to set up and maintain, and they’re certainly not portable. Unless it’s Hank the Beer Tank, that is. It’s about half the size of a traditional kegerator, and can run off 110-240AC or 12-24DC so you can either plug it in at your friends party, or use your car’s cigarette lighter port for kickass tailgate parties. It accommodates a 1/6bbl (a bbl is a regular beer barrel), or a 5 gallon home-brew keg for portability and variety. Just dump it on a cart and you can take it anywhere. It’s $699 as a Super Early Bird, so act fast because retail will definitely be higher than that. Considering what you’ll be able to do with it, seven Franklins isn’t that much.

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Beer2D2

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Star Wars + Beer = win. You’ve always dreamed of turning an empty (or full!) beer keg into that lovable Star Wars droid but never had the ability too. Well now you can in a much more manageable size with your own Beer2D2, an R2-D2 made from a Heineken mini-keg. Just print out the 32 sheets of plans and leg parts in the instructable. Cut them out along with a cardboard box for support. Glue the shit out of it and you’ve changed your empty little keg into an empty little geekeg (geekkeg?). Not sure if the cardboard would be strong enough to hold a full kegger or if you’d even be able to do this project immediately after finishing the beer- so you’re sort of stuck in the middle there. Nice though.

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KegDroid dispenses beer with the help of a Xoom tablet and an Arduino board

KegDroid dispenses beer with the help of a Xoom tablet and an Arduino board

Here's an instance of NFC technology that's more exciting than yet another tap-to-pay scenario. Google employee Paul Carff combined a Motorola Xoom running ICS with an Arduino microcontroller to create KegDroid, a friendly green beer dispenser. The Xoom acts as a gatekeeper to that brewed goodness, only letting the bot dispense drinks after users swipe an authorized badge. The badge is read by an NFC scanner on the bottom of the case and is then authenticated (or rejected) by the Arduino board. Once the system grants access, users can choose from two selections on tap via a custom Android application displayed on the Xoom's screen. As Android Community points out -- and as you'll see in the video below -- the KegDroid hasn't mastered a bartender-level pour (read: there's way too much foam). Still, this is oodles cooler than your average keg, wouldn't you agree?

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