Bierstick will make you beer sick
Using the same mechanism as a caulking gun, the Bierstick is a $20 plunger that promises the ability to squirt two 12 oz. beers down your throat (and out your ears and nostrils) in under two seconds... a supernatural ability all three Boing Boing Gadgets editors just spent Tuesday night at a few dozen Brooklyn bars proving — without gadgets! — was absolutely innate.
Bierstick [Official Site via Liquorsnob via Crunchgear]




ROSSINDETROIT
#1 – 11:46 AM June 11, 2008
Oh, immediate ingestion of alcohol without all that inconvenient tasting and swallowing. Why didn't we think of this? Probably says more about the quality of the inventor's local brew than about any larger societal need.
Anonymous Anonymous
#2 – 11:46 AM June 11, 2008
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(beer) for an older, lower-tech version of this.
Joel Johnson
#3 – 11:49 AM June 11, 2008
Haha, yeah. John and I were just talking about how fast we tend to sip pints...because we enjoy the taste. Good beer fixes manifold sins!
technogeek
#4 – 12:00 PM June 11, 2008
For the far more sophisticated antecedent, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(beer)
MrScience
#5 – 12:09 PM June 11, 2008
Just don't try for *one* second...
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/14/beer-bong-tragedy-ha.html
Halloween Jack
#6 – 12:18 PM June 11, 2008
MrScience: Well, no, I wouldn't try it. For the larrikin who did,, though, it might just be an example of natural selection in action.
joflow
#7 – 12:59 PM June 11, 2008
Not that it's worth quibbling over the details, but it dispenses 24oz, not 12oz.
http://www.drinkplanner.com/2008/06/09/behold-bierstick-briskly-blasts-beer-to-the-brim/
Agies
#8 – 1:05 PM June 11, 2008
If you have to drink it fast, you probably shouldn't drink it at all.
Latente
#9 – 1:37 PM June 11, 2008
i pass, i prefer my old slow glass of bier of boucanier
http://www.biereduboucanier.be/
veffekt
#10 – 3:47 PM June 11, 2008
I love the lingustic irony here. In German, I immediately saw another word here: bi-ERSTICK!
Erstick is a root form of the word to suffocate. It also has denotations of asphyxiation, drowning, smothering, choking, and stifling.
I hope they change the name if they market in Germany.
Chevan
#11 – 4:40 PM June 11, 2008
>it dispenses 24oz, not 12oz.
That's why he said two 12oz cans, not one.
LSK
#12 – 5:37 PM June 11, 2008
I'd buy one for soda.
Anonymous Anonymous
#13 – 5:59 PM June 11, 2008
Why not just drink two double vodkas? (or whatever quantity is equivalent to the alcohol in 24oz of beer).
I wouldn't want to try a carbonated drink in that either, yet it's suggested in the disclaimer on the site!
joflow
#14 – 6:28 PM June 11, 2008
My bad
Not a Doktor
#15 – 8:22 PM June 11, 2008
woo beer-enema
Mark Temporis
#16 – 10:11 PM June 11, 2008
#15: Drinking: You're doing it wrong.
chef
#17 – 12:58 AM June 12, 2008
#16: No, he's already done it right, which is why he thought of that.
Hanglyman
#18 – 1:30 AM June 12, 2008
What, it's not called a beerynge?
kleer001
#19 – 3:46 AM June 12, 2008
OMG! Stoner alert. Put a little bung on the end there, then a smoldering bowl... Much less messy then a normal gravity bong with all the water and whatnot.
Uh, oh, yes, for tobacco only. Yes, tobacco.
Thinkerer
#20 – 2:17 PM June 12, 2008
This would carry you past the pint (sic) of no return without a second thought. Next are the dares to:
1.) Do seven more just like it in ten minutes flat, just because someone said you couldn't.
2.) Fill one with high-proof vodka.
3.) Some derivative of the above coupled with the "tobacco only" use of @19.
Anonymous Anonymous
#21 – 3:33 PM June 12, 2008
Made one of these in college. In fact, many people I know did...only in Wisconsin, I guess.
At the hardware store you can find a similar looking item used to force pain into a roller brush.
David Stein
#22 – 5:24 PM June 12, 2008
So it's like being waterboarded with beer, right?
Well... I suppose there are worse ways to go.
- David Stein
kmg
#23 – 6:51 PM June 12, 2008
what happened to the good ole funnel, hose and gravity technique?
Rickmccl
#24 – 2:02 PM June 13, 2008
Funnel? We don't need to frat-boy funnels...
What happened to cutting a hole in the bottom of the side of the can, apply lips, pull tab..
Anonymous Anonymous
#25 – 2:40 PM June 14, 2008
anyone else notice that on their website their disclaimer is in the form of an EULA?
it actually begins with
[quote]By purchasing a Bierstick, you agree to the following:[/quote]
Anonymous Anonymous
#26 – 4:27 PM May 20, 2009
I bought one and i love it its a huge hit at parties its not that i dont like the taste of beer but there is virtually no way to get drunk faster off of beer.