StudioArdent is an Etsy shop that makes custom boutonnieres out of beer themed ingredients, including hops, wheat and bottle caps.
Since each one is unique, you can custom order what you want, including the design above, which includes a cap from the famous Arrogant Bastard.
If you’ve ever opened a beer, but then realized you needed to save it for later, or if you’ve ever gone to a party and lost track of which beer was yours (aka the wounded soldier) then the BeerSavers bottle caps may be just what you’ve been looking for.
BeerSavers are bottle caps made from food-safe silicone that fit over the mouth of a beer bottle, and are designed to keep your beer fresh after opening, and to help differentiate your beer from others.
They come in a multi-colored six pack, so each person can have their own color, and are both dishwasher safe and reusable.
Plus, for you homebrewers out there, you can use BeerSavers to keep your bottles clean and sterile before bottling.
The American Homebrewers Association has had the same logo for more than a decade, so when the time came to (finally) replace it, they needed a logo that would “reflect the fun and passion for homebrewing found in the AHA membership and the hobby as a whole”.
According to AHA Director Gary Glass,
It wasn’t easy, and the AHA staff and our graphic design team took the redesign seriously. We’re thrilled with this new visual representation of the AHA, our members and the broader homebrewing community.
The end result is a logo that incorporates several of the fundamentals of the homebrewing hobby, including a hop cone, a barley stalk, a tall glass of beer, and a bottle cap.
A job well done I’d say, and one that should last for at least another decade or more.
The bottle cap (originally called the crown cork) has remained nearly the same since its invention in 1892. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement though, as this concept from Gonglue Jiang demonstrates.
Called the EasyOpen, it’s a bottle cap that features a pull tab similar to what cans use, allowing you to simply pop the top off if you can’t find an opener, preventing you from making do with your teeth, the side of a table, or a variety of other, usually destructive means.
[Via: Yanko Design]
