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Hahn Academy: Seeking Beer Innovations

By Rain Noe - July 10, 2012

in Object Culture | Food

With the tagline "Pioneering Beering," Australia-based Hahn Academy seeks creative crowdsourced solutions for better ways to make, distribute and drink beer. Started by the irreverent Australian brewing company of the same name, Hahn Academy is open-minded: May's winning submission to their ongoing competition was for bacon-flavored beer, which they're now working on. June's front-runner is for the brilliant concept you see below:

Of course, not all of the concepts will make it to fruition; sometimes the ambitions of beer-drinking innovators will exceed the boundaries of current materials science. But that doesn't stop them from trying. Here we see the ongoing struggle to produce March's submission, a no-stick beer coaster:

Got an idea for a beer-related innovation of your own? Sound off here.

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StNick

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To comment on Nick, Heineken actually already did such a thing in the 60's so third world countries could use them as bricks for walls. They were invented by Alfred Heineken himself, subsequently designed by John Habraken, an architect (these were the 60's).These bottles are also known as WOBO's.
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Nick

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Heineken tried the square beer bottle thing as a promotional stunt not long ago; they even built a wall out of it as suggested in the video
http://inhabitat.com/heineken-wobo-the-brick-that-holds-beer/

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bob

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Neither of these ideas is anything new. There are a fair amount of bacon beers out there, and Heineken did the square beer brick 50 years ago.
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