In my younger days I was no stranger to wearing Hypercolor t-shirts, Reebok Pumps, and of course a slap bracelet. We all did. Then some kid in NY cut himself with one and ruined the fun for everybody else. Now I can keep my tailgating drink cold with a koozie that utilizes the same concept. KoozieSlap.com sent me a couple of their slap bracelet style koozies. Besides the obvious nostalgia and novelty, these koozies are quite functional. Unlike other koozies I was able to successfully use the same slap koozie on a can, bottle, glass, and solo cup. You can order these bad boys for $5 in a generic design or for North Carolina, Duke, Florida, Penn State, East Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia Tech. Check out the slap koozie in action…
Tagged as: duke, east carolina, florida, koozie, north carolina, penn state, tennessee, virginia tech
I’ve wondered aloud for at least five years why no one made koozies for 40 ounce bottles. If I had the inventor’s spirit (instead of a mediocre blog spirit) I would have produced them myself. However, there are much more motivated people in the world like BoozinGear.com who have figured how to make such things. They were kind enough to send me a sample of the 40oz Koozie and I was willing enough to go pick up a 40 oz. of High Life on a Thursday night for the sake of science.
The first thing you’ll notice is that the koozie is made to look like a krinkled brown paper bag. Hobo chic if you will.
“Let me show you Derelicte. It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.” -Mugatu
So that feature might bring some oohs and ahhs at some sort of theme party. However, the standard features are what make this koozie worth buying. I found that my beer stayed sufficiently cold for roughly forty minutes. So as long as you keep up your standard power hour pace, you’re in the clear. The second feature is the handle sewn onto the side. Now you can feel free to gesture wildly without the fear of sending an Olde English into someone’s cranium. Unless that’s your thing.
So between the novelty (brown bag design), function (keeps your beer cold) and the comfort (handle really does make a difference) I’m going to have to give the 40 Ounce Koozie the Drunken Tailgate approval. I do not have as a favorable review for that Champagne of Beers 40oz.
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Need to take a bottle of Jagermeister around campus but are worried that a brown bag won’t keep it ice cold? Luckily your local liquor store may be selling bottles of Jager that come with these handy orange koozies. Theoretically this would also keep 1.75ml bottles of vodka cold as well. Which is good since I don’t imagine Ketel One will be featuring a koozie as part of their packaging anytime soon.
Tagged as: jagermeister, koozie, liquor, vodka
So I stumbled across this Halloween costume from a Wake Forest tailgate. Normally dressing as a cowboy would be a bit of a cop out, but I must say I was impressed with the Leather Beer Holster. Turns out you can buy them from beeroutlaw.com. Their cheapest one costs $29 and you can get one personalized with a college logo for $40. Not a bad way to mosey around campus. If you were to get a pair of holsters and top it off with a belt buckle bottle opener you could become some type of drunken Billy the Kid.
Tagged as: beer, halloween, koozie, wake forest
Over the last few years bottle openers have been popping up everywhere. On the bottom of flip flops seems like a good idea until you step in dog crap that first time. The bike rack for my car is outfitted with them as well. But it’s easy to keep a bottle opener in a car anyway. But a koozie with a bottle opener built in is ingenious. A beer, a koozie, and a bottle opener. You’re set. Check out Cap-a-Cooz and either get a smooth looking koozie featuring their own logo or you can also create your own (the 36 unit minimum at $4.49 is reasonable). They appear to fit both bottles and cans well.
Tagged as: beer, bottle opener, koozie
