The future of beer pouring?

Beers filling up through the bottom of the cup.



http://www.wimp.com/beerscup/

Has anybody ever heard or seen such a thing? Is is patented by Bud?

That's wild. Interested to know what Roger and David think of this.

Alan H, brought this up a couple of months ago in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13415

I think it's a great idea but the cups have to be quite expensive compared to other disposable cups. Of course that means that consumers will have to pay more for the same product even though it takes less labor to fill them.

That's wild. Interested to know what Roger and David think of this.

They are great if you don't mind having magnets in your beer.

Guess What? A cup with a hole in the bottom sealed with a magnet leaks more than a cup without said hole.

http://www.crossingbroad.com/2011/01/reader-report-on-beer-dispenser.html

Sounds like a good idea that maybe needs to be improved upon before is ready for prime time!

More gimmickry at the expense of beer. Fitting that it's being used to pour swill as fast as possible.

Yawn.

More gimmickry at the expense of beer. Fitting that it's being used to pour swill as fast as possible.

Yawn.

i don't know that I would call it a gimmick if it actually worked. I was a a concert at Rupp a while back and they were pouring Bud at an estimated 4 to 1 ratio to Kentucky Ale. I don't know if it was an issue with the keg or if Bud foams less than Kentucky Ale, but it was an issue for me. If this machine could prevent the over-foaming of Kentucky Ale and allow me to get my beer faster, then no harm, no foul. Does it make sense at a brewpub, no/maybe. Does is make sense at a concert or ballgame where they are trying to serve real beer; I think it might.

Does is make sense at a concert or ballgame where they are trying to serve real beer; I think it might.

Agreed, although I would submit that the list of issues pertaining to your sentence above range well beyond foaming. Just GETTING real beer there must happen before pouring issues arise.

A much better solution that I'm surprised has not caught on more is a product called the Turbo Tap http://turbotap.com/. Its a few years older and maybe a bit slower than the bottoms up. On the plus side, cost of entry is much lower, there are no expensive parts to break, and you don't have to buy proprietary cups. It attaches to just about any existing faucet. The bottoms up is a great engineering feat but just not practical from a cost perspective.

I would guess this is strictly a matter of selling as much "beer" (or pee-pee water as it is considered in this forum) as humanly possible at an event. If the additional income didn't offset the price of the machines and the cups there's no way they would do it. If you've ever bought "beer" (pee-pee water) at a concert or game and every person in line is trying to order 4 so they don't have to come back it is SLOW. I would guess this thing bumps sales significantly.