Beer

​​The product lineup from Seattle’s PicroBrew has recently come to included a venture into drinks of the harder variety. It is now bringing even more beverages into the fold with the Pico U, a universal brewing appliance that can produce what could be described as healthier options.​

​A couple of years ago, we heard about a device known as the Ripple Maker (now called Coffee Ripples), a machine that reproduces photos, text or other graphics on coffee foam. Well, beer-drinkers may be glad to know that its makers are back, with Beer Ripples.

Home craft beer brewing appliances have made an expensive hobby a whole lot more accessible and PicoBrew is taking aim at all corners of the market. Billed as a first-of-its-kind, PicoStill promises a safe and easy way to distill other kinds of alcohol in the home.

​Home-brewing has seen large growth in the US over the last decade or so, and one startup to find success with this new legion of enthusiasts is PicoBrew. Today it has introduced a new home-brewing device that comes in cheaper than its predecessor, while still maintaining a focus on ease-of-use.​

As pubs and bars in the UK get busier in the run up to Christmas, Barclaycard has uncorked a way to reduce the time people spend waiting to be served. Pay @ Pump is a beer pump that allows customers to pour their own pint and pay with a contactless card in as little as a minute.

Self-driving trucks have proven they're able to drive closer together than their human-controlled counterparts, but there's still one crucial test for the technology: Can it deliver beer? Otto, a subsidiary of Uber, has answered that question by delivering a shipment of Budweiser in Colorado.

Out of all the ways to show love and loyalty for one's favorite team(s), the latest may be the most flashy. The ePint Smart Beer Mug is designed to automatically light up in your team's colors every single time they score.

A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited beer-swigging live music lovers at last week's Roskilde Festival to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.

Guinness, the Irish stout, is famously dark with a creamy head. It is also increasingly green. A newly-opened Guinness brewhouse has been awarded LEED Platinum certification. Brewhouse No. 4 at St. James’s Gate in Ireland was also awarded BREEAM Outstanding certification last year.

BottleLoft allows you to use the dead space in your refrigerator, making it possible to hang your favorite beverage from the ceiling of your fridge. The strong neodymium magnets hold bottles of beer or other beverages, freeing up shelf space for food.

The beer lovers at start-up SYNEK offer what they hope will be a versatile mini-tap, going so far as to say that it can fill your mug with any beer on Earth. That claim may be an exaggeration, but the system does offer a unique form of packaging that could change the way we sip and guzzle.

When Toronto's Jansen White was sitting around a campfire chugging beers, he was struck by an appealing thought. What if the koozie his friend was using also had built-in speakers? Two years and 20 prototypes later, the Dubstein is now being prepped for production.