Just in time for football season: the Beerbelly vessel
Recently I checked out the web site of an hilarious product, the Beerbelly.
It is a polyurethene bladder that can hold 80 ounces of beer. A sling over your shoulders holds the device in place on your stomach. A tube running from the "storage tank" delivers beer to your mouth. When a wearer slips a shirt over this artificial Beerbelly, he looks like has a real beer belly. It costs $35, which the creators point out is cheaper than buying six $7 beers at a stadium.
For the wine-sipping ladies, the same outfit makes a $30 product called the Winerack. It is a polyurethene bra that holds a 750-milliliter bottle of wine. It too has a device that allows the wearer to sip the hidden beverage.
Most stadiums, of course, prohibit fans from carrying alcoholic beverages into the site.
I wonder what beer from a Beerbelly tastes like?
If the beer is cold, won't your belly be frigid?
If it is warm, ugh!
Has anybody tried this out?
Has anyone tried those "beer helmets," the hard hats that hold two cans of beer and have plastic drinking tubes? My guess is they look hilarious, but don't do the beer, or the beer drinker, any favors. Am I right?
Comments
The beer helmet or "foam dome" as it can be known does indeed "work". In college (of course) a hall-mate purchased one and decided to test it. Physics weren't in his favor as once the siphon began - it was nearly impossible to stop. So yes, it's possible to drink from one of these contraptions, especially if your goal is to drink two cans of beer very quickly and with lots of foam. Of course, Natural Light is not exactly a savoring type beer.
Posted by: bryanintimonium | August 27, 2008 8:56 AM
The problem is, anyone who would use The Beerbelly likely already has a beer belly. ;-)
Posted by: Paul Milligan | August 29, 2008 6:59 PM
I believe Rick Reilly, formally of Sports Illustrated (now of ESPN), wrote a column about this at least a year ago. He tried it out, bringing it into a stadium. He said he got some weird looks from people, but he was able to enjoy the beer. He even shared it with others around him. He even had some other device/invention that he was wearing that allowed you not to miss the game for bathroom breaks.
You can probably search for the column through the "SI Vault" on SI.com. I don't recall the date though, but it was at least a year or two ago.
Posted by: Mark | September 6, 2008 10:26 AM