huggaz beer coolers and wine carriers

A new accessory for drinkers has hit our shores, and about time too. The brand is huggaz, and it’s about insulation products.

Tropical heat + insulation = good idea.

When it comes to beers, especially in tropical / summer weather, keeping ’em nice n cold is tough. With huggaz, that’s no issue anymore.

Chillin

Chillin

The coolers (also known as koozies/sleeves/condoms/sarongs) are made of 3.5mm neoprene, which is scuba-suit material. It’s durable, efficient and long-lasting. Neoprene does a better job than foam koozies, which are more common, but less effective.

After using them a few times, i wonder how i ever went without these babies. Beers stay cold all the way to the end! Nutin worse than warm beers, especially after the half-can stage.

Used ’em at Urbanscapes 2013 all day.

There’s always a couple handy in my car now. The can coolers from the Road Series are foldable – useful for travelling and events.

There’re koozies for beer cans and beer bottles, and there’re decorative wine carriers.

 

Peaceout

Peaceout

 

huggaz Granat

huggaz Granat

 

Omaha

Omaha

 

huggaz Trops

huggaz Trops

 

huggaz Cubano - a top seller

huggaz Cubano – a top seller

Essential for BBQs, music festivals, picnics, beach holidays, road trips, and more.

The beer bottle koozies (Bomb Series) comes with a zipper for a snug fit.

The wine tote bags (Wino Series) make good carriers, insulators, as well as gifts. You could give somebody a bottle of wine together with the huggaz bag as a gift package. All products are machine-washable and should last a long time. The print quality is great.

These keep wine chilled for about an hour. Also prevents breakages in transit.

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Towa wine carrier

 

Cree double-wine carrier

Cree double-wine carrier

They’d make cool gifts for Christmas too! It comes with a warranty — 30-day money-back guarantee if it don’t do what it should or if you’re unsatisfied.

Personal customization for weddings, birthdays, events etc are also available.

There’re many designs to choose from, with more on the way. You can stay updated on the new stuff by liking the Facebook page here.

huggaz are currently available at Ales & Lagers (Publika – beer coolers) as well as Village Grocer (Bangsar Village 1 – all coolers). They can be bought direct online too at huggaz.com.

They will also be available at WIP’s bazaar (Bangsar Shopping Center) this Sunday, Dec 15 from 10am to 6pm, where 20% of sales will be donated to charity Hospis Malaysia.

huggaz Bubbly!

huggaz Bubbly!

huggaz prices are from ten bucks to 30+.

An essential tool for any self-respecting drinker.

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New Tiger Radler

Tiger will be releasing a new variant, its first one as far as i know since it began in Malaya 81 years ago. It’s called Tiger Radler, and is a combo of beer and… lemon juice.

Yea, you heard me.

Tried it out. It’s aroma is that of shandy, as shandy is basically beer and lemonade soda. In terms of mouthfeel, it’s crisp and fizzy. It tastes like shandy (i dig shandy, with bacon ba kwa, my annual CNY thing), but better. Not as sweet, with a hint of lager bitterness.

Among its ingredients are lime juice, orange juice and lemongrass! And some sugar.

Am sipping on it as i write this. Yea its a slow-sipping kinda drink.

It sure tastes good and refreshing, but as a beer, at only 2% ABV, it dont cut it for me. I’ll need half a case and swallow a few thousand calories to get high. Thing is, I’m on a diet. Sorta permanent one. So the higher the ABV, the less calories consumed. Haha.

The bottle is actually the same ol’ Tiger bottle, with cosmetic changes.

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The drink originated as a cocktail for cyclists after a ride. I guess it’s cool to enjoy it as a refreshing beverage or thirst-quencher or spicy-food accompaniment rather than a beer.

It should be available wherever Tiger is, and is supposed to cost the same as regular Tiger. I expected it to be cheaper, considering shandy costs only 2 bucks a can.

Radler means cyclist in German. It’s already launched in Europe, and will be launched here in the city Friday.

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Instant booze-chiller device

Why dahell aren’t scientists and their types inventing an instant chiller?? They went and made the goddam microwave oven 66 years ago. (Well, a 6-foot tall monster anyway.)

Why is it so easy to heat shit up in seconds, but really difficult to make ’em cold? Even a freezer takes like 30 minutes to chill a warm beer. 30 minutes! People could be dead by then.

Can’t they just switch the microwaves wires around?

I guess not. But there has been an attempt very recently to work sumtin out. Not a reverse microwave, but some sort of instant cooler.

The Vortex

The Vortex

I guess ”instant” means different things to different people. This one isn’t that quick to me.

How does this work? It uses a cooling vortex to chill the drinks, spinning the beverage around without disturbing the carbonation of fizzy drinks.

Yaaawn.

Spinning shit around in cold water is ol skool. Thirsty humans have been doin it manually. But i guess the bottom line is the effectiveness. This baby chills a beer from room temp to 5C in 40 seconds.

Hmmm. Lemme see, 40 seconds per beer….. 5 eager, parched guys needing a drink…..  = 3.3 minutes total. Well, reasonable.

I’ll take it!

Damn. My birthday has just passed.

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World-first: Absolut Brand Store launched @ KLIA

Post written by my buddy and fellow alco Paulie:

I was invited to attend the launch of Absolut’s 1st ever retail boutique in the world, in KLIA, representing The Thirsty Blogger of course.

At the event, we were accompanied by cocktails (they had a virgin drink, didnt interest me) made from Absolut Hibiskus, mixed with pomegranate, etc.

Thats all it took for me to get into my comfortable mode, which meant only one thing, Absolut Drownme. You usually get it at Absolut events. Limited edition if you ask me.

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The PRM big guns gave their respective speeches and MAHB’s GM gave the last one followed by the official launch (ribbon cutting) of the outlet.

Pretty nice set up, the event. The outlet itself is located right at the entrance and exit of the sky train platform. Convenient.

I was impressed with the layout of the place. Its the only place in the world that you can find all the flavours of the Absolut family, after their Swedish warehouse of course. However they didnt have the Absolut Pepper and Absolut blue on. There was a couple of their limited edition Absoluts on display.

The highlight of the launch of course, for me was their bar. Yes, you heard me right. The brand store actually boasts a bar that, beat this, sells Absolut cocktails with duty free prices!

The bar that day was run by Mark Tay, the founder of BarSmiths Singapore  and according to him, will be run by one of their boys during normal operations.

Pretty impressive set of cocktails they had. Absolut Calamansi, Absolut Hibiskus Gingerlime, Absolut Hibiskus Chilli, Absolut Hibiskus PomRose and Absolut Hibiskus Tropical Passion. I rated the Absolut Chilli as the best tasting one. I thought that the Gingerlime was good too.

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The rest, just tasted normal to me, though the preparation looked pretty interesting, with Mark scooping out pomegranate seeds for the PomRose and using melted gula melaka for the tropical passion. Picture chilli seeds boiled in hot water and the liquid later used as a flavouring for the Absolut Chilli. Pretty neat eh?

I was so engrossed chatting with Mark and getting high (prepping myself for the next party, (Arthurs Day at Sepang) by the time i turned around, i was the only person still standing there.

Said my goodbyes to the nice people of Absolut and made my way to the main KLIA lobby nice and buzzed.

 

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