Political Calculations has a history of beer container patents, replete with drawings from the patents. They also append long list of links to previous posts. All that I’ve read are “serious”, I’ll let you judge whether that results in deadpan humor, or comes out flat.
- Better Tasting Beer Through Technology? – should you let a brewery sample your DNA to craft the perfect beer for you?
- Recycling Beer Bottles – into musical instruments!
- Replacing the Golden Dollar – we suggest replacing those pretentious, yet extremely tarnish-prone coins with beer caps. The U.S. Treasury didn’t fully follow through on our suggestion, but they did finally stop making any more of these very unpopular coins.
- Beer Caps: Is There Anything They Can’t Do? – it turns out that they can be recycled into many other uses!
- How Many Beers Should You Have at the Company Picnic? – our tool to help you know when to say when if your boss is about!
- Bypassing the Can Altogether – we’ve had boxed wines for quite some time now, but would you buy beer packaged that way?
- Keeping Your Beer Cold on a Hot Day – we review the science for how you can best insulate your cold beer once you’ve cracked the can open!
- The Future of Beer in Aluminum – the humble beer can is still a focus of modern day innovation!
- The Past of Beer in Aluminum – we fire up the wayback machine to consider a time when the idea of using aluminum for beer cans was new.
- Inventions in Everything: Turning Cans Into Sippy Cups
- Keeping Your Beer Cold on a Hot Day – science answers the important questions!