BBtv Vlog: Krups Heineken BeerTender Review
We finally had a chance to put the Krups Heineken BeerTender through a battery of rigorous tests, such as "Will it allow beer to escape its nozzle?" and "Hey, the beer is gone." If you perused the unboxing spread I put up last week you can probably guess my eventual purchasing advice, but let's just say that $300 is a lot of money for a tiny refrigerator that can only serve Heineken.
Also, we didn't labor it in the video, but the little sensor that shows you how much beer is left in the proprietary DraftKeg? You know, one of the only things that the BeerTender adds over a regular refrigerator? Totally did not work on ours.
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Heineken? F T S! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!
Nice Northern Brewer glass. I've alwasys thought of them as local, I guess I didn't realize their presence was that widespread.
@styrofoam I order all my homebrew gear from NB!
Why not just do it the old fashion way?
Disappointing that this is thing isn't better. I loves me some Heineken. Not as much as I like wine though.
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If you like the idea - there is a competing system called "Perfect Draft" from Philips.
Can be used with more brands of beer and costs around 110 euros (175$?) here in europe.
No idea if its available in the US of A, though.
call me when you have the double keg helmet - with cooling
So, wait... I'm trying to figure out how this works.
I'm assuming the product was provided for free, so that an online review would be done, hopefully promoting the product/beer. This could be an incorrect assumption, but I'm basing it on the fact that there was skepticism about its usefulness from the start, so I'm doubtful that it was purchased.
Then a video is made dissing not only the new product but the beer as well, and continuously so.
And you get drunk in the process.
If I were Heineken looking for some promotion, I'd be pissed. On the other hand: How do I apply for your job??
Northern Brewer is huge. I use them too. I also us a more local mon'n'pop place (with some sweeeeet shop-made kits) - NFG Homebrew. Look 'em up, they're online too.
The head is not large for a Dutch beer! Two fingers is the correct size. Looks about right.
#7: Well, even if the product were provided for free, Joel doesn't need to say "OMG It's awesome" to please the manufacturers. That's called a bribe. If the product sucks, then it sucks. It's not like he made the flaws of the product up.
Personally, I think the beer is good, because: 1. The two kids in the video were completely drunk, 2. They got some drunk Joel went to cut his own hair, 3. They start talking sh*t, which is exactly what drunk people do... LOL
On the other hand, I think companies will still send stuff for him to review, because if Joel finally reveal his thumbs up, that means a product is really good. And it's not like he didn't do that (e.g. iPhone and iPhone).
P.S. It was a hilarious non-review review.
ROTFL go ahead and drink your highly-marketed pale lagers from a proprietary apparatus. I-tunes for beer.
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#9: ...that's what she said?
Friends don't let friends drink and shave.
the guys reviewing this would make sucky bar men!thats the worst pouring i've ever seen, stick to your weak american beers guys, Heineken pisses on any of them.
Nice use of missing I-frames as a wipe transition.
Not feeling it, sorry.
This amounts to a beer fad, and not a very compelling one at that.
Its cool and all, but for about a $100 more you could get a half barrel sized kegerator. You could probably make up the difference within 3 kegs by "buying in bulk".
FYI: NB has probably one of the two largest online hb shops.
NB FTW! Just got my all grain set-up and am prepping a Strong golden ale and an ESB. Good luck with your heinny.
@15 -- There are 1,406 craft and microbreweries in the U.S. I'll agree the european mass-marketed beers are better than the ones here (although heineken tastes like a skunk's asshole), but saying American beers are weak just shows how ignorant generalizations can be. And for the record, Bud and Coors are the same ABV as Heineken.
What do you do with that empty Heineken draught keg? Make a lamp, of course. This guy makes lamps out of his empties: http://www.beerutopia.com/?p=82