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August 27, 2009

A beer tap that tweets: A bartender replacement?

Not sure why you would want one, but there is now a beer tap that sends a message on Twitter every time it pours a draft. It's new news to me, but some of you probably already heard about it.

The so-called Tweeting Bar was was rigged up by 360i, a digital communications outfit in New York.

Judging by the messages displayed on a monitor near the tap, the Tweeting Bar is not exactly a Damon Runyon story teller.

Mashable, a social media blog, has dubbed the Tweeting Bar "cool". Who am I to argue.

Help me here. Why would you want such a device?
If you owned one, what would you have it say?

Something like Somebody is drinking my beer?

We all tweet now. Follow me here.

Posted by Rob Kasper at 8:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Weird beer stories

Comments

As a frequent visitor to the Tweeting Bar, I can attest to the wide-eyed expressions of wonder whenever anyone approaches it. It's kind of like the Field of Dreams, except instead of dead ballplayers, there are tweets about drinking. It really is a conversation piece though, and what's a bar for if not good conversation?

Posted by: David Berkowitz | August 27, 2009 9:45 AM

Great idea, now to work on your pour!

Posted by: Chumprock | August 27, 2009 10:34 AM

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About Rob Kasper

Rob Kasper, a features columnist, has been writing about beer for 20 years, and he remembers when Anchor Christmas and Noche Buena were about the only beers at a holiday tasting and Sisson’s was the only brewpub in Baltimore. A collection of his columns, "Raising Kids and Tomatoes, Amusing Tales and Appetizing Recipes," was published in 1998. He lives with his wife, Judith, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in a downtown Baltimore rowhouse. They have two grown sons, who come home from time to time and drink their father’s beer.
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