Long Neck Beer Towers ... really!

[Gifted Gourmet]

here it is

For thousands of years, people have gathered together to visit, converse, and laugh all while enjoying a glass of their favorite beer. The Long Neck offers a new twist on this timeless tradition. It is a new way of pouring beverages, a new culture of drinking and, in short, a new way of having fun.

from their website, of course ...

This is supposed to be the newest breakthrough in offering beer to one's guests ... it does have a certain appeal and from their "press" it is catching on .... visually appealing? will not break during everyday use ...

Seen one? Hope you never do? Think it has any merit? Feedback?

[WolfChef]

How do you clean the bottom of something that long....and because of the large surface area to volume wouldn't 10 litres beer get warm faster than 3 people could drink it. Then there is the question of how to fill it. I'd rather have a beermiester.

[GG Mora]

What exactly is the point of this thing?

...a new way of having fun...

Wow, that's some revolutionary marketing for ya.

[Okbrewer]

I was recently in Salt Lake City, and Squatter's Brewpub offers these things. Kinda Gimmicky to say the least! I believe they come apart for cleaning. They are filled from the tap just like a pint, just takes longer and ya get a lot of foam.

[aiki_brewer]

I saw these a couple of years ago in the brewpub in the Monte Carlo casino in Las Vegas. (Mediocre beer, BTW - the water out there is too harsh to make good beer.) Didn't actually drink from one, but I agree that it's pretty gimmicky, particularly at 10liters (that's a lot of beer), and probably a pain to clean. Only really makes sense in a bar/pub, since to use it at home, you'd need a keg to fill it from, and why not just tap off the keg? And if you're in a pub, you only get to drink that one type of beer (unless they pour you a very tall black & tan).

Of course, we should have been tipped off to the fact that these people are silly by the chart on their "Do beverages stay cold" page, which shows them pouring the beer at 40F...

[Chef Shogun]

'So this one night Steve, Chet, Crazy Joe, and yours truely were at this party, right? And Steve was like, "We're doing beer bongs, right? What if, and follow me here, we had an actual bong filled with beer??'", and I was like "Dude...that would be HOT...but it would have to be unnessesarily, almost impractically large..."'

.....and thus, the Long Neck Beer Tower was born.