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Draft Top Lift Object Beheads Beer Cans for Easy Drinking

But will it fit on the end of your EDC stuff

By Rain Noe - October 25, 2022

in Tools & Craft

Glass is now practically impossible to recycle in America. After my local recycling center stopped accepting glass, I switched from bottled beer to cans. I hate drinking out of cans, so my solution is to leave a glass tumbler in the freezer, and break it out when it's beer time. A frosty glass beats a refrigerated bottle.

For those who have switched to cans for environmental reasons, but also hate drinking out of them, there is this interesting Draft Top Lift invention that cuts the entire top off.

In terms of UX it's no home run, but looks to be manageable once you get the hang of it:

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These run $25 a pop.

Given the difficulty of recycling glass in America, I wonder if drinking beer out of bottles will decline in popularity here. It would be interesting if this Draft Top Lift became the thing that everyone sticks onto the end of an EDC object.

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Joe Kerr

2 years ago

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Where I grew up in Ontario, bottles are reused 15 times before being broken down. Reduce (not likely with beer) reuse then recycle.
Most domestics all come in the same bottle but that means blind tasting is also a breeze.
Also the Beer Store system is kinda fun - giant cooler warehouse full of beer on pallets. And it all comes in the same bottle! Function over form.

When I was growing up they didn’t even let you see the magic - https://youtu.be/nC6dBsNz0oc

“Refillable containers comprise roughly 85% of the total beer containers sold in Ontario, with an average reuse lifespan of 15 times. [5] 97% of all refillable beer containers are returned”

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  What goes around comes around - there is a push to revive reuse - https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/51843/plastics-reuse-and-refill-laws/
  
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Stephen Christ

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Stopped reading after you said you keep a glass in the freezer.
Frosted beer glasses mess with the carbonation and flavor, and are the best way to ruin a beer.

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Eric Bender

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This will make it easier to get the tops off of cans for making backpacking alcohol stoves. Kind of a pain to score the inner rim with a utility knife and they don't always pop out clean.

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