The Wired How-to Wiki shows you 6 excellent bar tricks you can pull off for free drinks. Make a bet with your friends and collect! They’re not “obvious” tricks but from their descriptions, they all sound as if they would work easily. It also shows you how to open a beer bottle with only a dollar bill (though any sheet of paper would work)! That by itself makes this worth the read. Any other tricks you may have up your sleeve?
This is far and away one of the greatest alcohol consumption concepts I have seen. The only issue for the typical college bar is that they run $50K a pop, and I could see all sorts of ways that people could/would “steal” beer from others.
Still, at a packed college bar where one has to squeeze through an attrocious number of people and wait with an arm dangling a 20 over the bar….this would be heaven.
I do believe that these are excellent. Though I may not agree with all of them word for word…..it is by far the best list I have seen in my mere 28 years on this planet. Be sure to check it out.
Beer pong is as ubiquituous at college itself. If you don’t own a beer pong table over some point of your 4 ( to 8 ) year college experience….you must not drink! I have written on the topic of beer pong and the table before. I still stand by that post. But for you lazy asses with too much extra cash from Mommy and Daddy here are three links to simplify your pong life…
Official Beer Pong Table ($125) - It looks a little lightweight for the kind of shindigs that we used to have. Not to mention its about $100 more expensive than your standard sheet of 5/8″ plywood. But it is portable!
Custom Beer Pong Balls ($56 for 25 balls) - For you real self-absorbed, thinking you are God, beer pong afficinados.
N-ice Rack ($20 for 2) - Freezable cup racker. Our cups were rarely on the table long enough to get warm enough to need a frozen racker, and if they are there that long, you deserve to drink warm beer.
Thus, I present to you the chilled shot machine. You may see them at your favorite watering hole, but now you have have one of your own for your Jager or Sambuca fueled binges.
It retailes for only $129.99 at Skymall. When I was in college the tiny freezer section in my college dorm sized fridge did the trick. But hey, if you’ve got the cash…..enjoy!
As finals are nearing, so is the conclusion of collegiate intoxication for yet another year. Therefore here are some “new” drinking tools for those of you looking to diversify your inebriation experiences as you wrap up a hopefully productive year…
I lived my college life pretty simply….keg stands, pitcher races, and a simple funnel and tube. Nowadays you can find all sorts of incredible beer drinking gadgets (see shotgunning a beer). Thus I present to you the BongXedo. it puts the traditional funnel and tube to shame. The website Bestbong has a number of beer chugging contraptions, but I feel this one takes the cake.
What would have life in college been like if I had a defoamer? Bestbong answers this question, albeit a couple years too late.
It retails for about $40, but I would imagine that any industrious college kid with a utility knife, and access to a hardware store could make something comparable.
Regardless, this puts a whole new spin on the funnel….36 ounces at a time. Enjoy!
For some college drinkers the small opening at the top of a can of beer is simply not big enough. One can not get an acceptable amount of alcohol through it at one time. Therefore ingenious college imbibers implement the shotgun. It is simply a method to get more beer out of the can FASTER. For information as to how to accomplish said shotgun see the following sites:
everything2.com: How to shotgun a beer
Along with the traditional shotgun tools (ie. the key), there are actual products which you can purchase in order to facilitate the creation of your shotgun holes. Two such products are:
Now back in the day I never had cool products like these (what college drinker wouldn’t want one?!). We used our keys, as previously mentioned. One of my buddies at my small religious school (go figure) actually could not make his holes big enough for how fast he could drink, and he would actually SUCK the beer out of the can. He could put one down in the neighborhood of 4.2 seconds….faster than Tiki’s 40 time!
For those of you all concerned about the calories, carbs, and percent alcohol in your brewski’s the University of Rochester has compiled a substantial list with the aforementioned information.
Personally it was always my opinion that if I was going to be drinking, I’d drink what I liked, not whatever was “healthiest.” I mean, come on….is beer healthy for you to be drinking in the first place, at least to the degree that college students do???
The U of R also has a number of other links to information about other drugs, which actually isn’t too too bland. Learn some info you had previously not known about Cocaine, Heroin, and Methamphetamine. For instance, curse the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914, not current politicians…..
Since the advent of Red Bull, it has become an incredibly popular mixer in the college bar scene. Red Bull and vodka is a staple for many college students looking to keep themselves going throughout the night. The mega dose of caffeine provided by the Red Bull helps to offset the effects of alcohol to the body, or so it feels to the drinker.
Now it would seem that this mixing poses some hidden health effects. Who would have thought!? Caffeine and alcohol combined in large doses…….well, duh! Some of the possible side effects include cardiovascular risk, impaired judgment, shortness of breath, dizziness, disorientation and rapid heart beat. None of these truly surprise me, and truly if you’re a college students going out boozing for the night in any college town, those risks are about par for the course.
You can read the entire article here at ABC News.
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