What ever happened to beer balls?

[DanVader]

Last time I saw beer balls was when this guy at a bar was hitting on a woman way out of his league.

Beer balls: Trying a friend’s homebrew when you don't even know what his kitchen looks like.

no, beer balls would be trying my homebrew after you see my kitchen

 

[double_e5]

If I ever found one and could get it to work... i would actually name the beer I put in in "92 Beretta" - hahah That is one of the best stories ever, and completely personifies a beerball.

You've heard some pretty boring stories in your life my man!

I know this is an old thread, but dammit this exchange was funny.

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

Is it me, or does that think look like it's filled with egg nog?

 

[SmugMug]

Is it me, or does that think look like it's filled with egg nog?

I wish. Egg nog would have tasted better :cross:. When I moved into my house 4 years ago I found one of the bulb pump taps in a cardboard box. It was a left over from my early years at college. I graduated almost 8 years ago !

 

[SchizoFilly]

Is it me, or does that thing look like it should be used for a bong when it's emptied out?

 

[bottleopener]

Spring weekend concert at school this year:

The night before the concert, a couple of my buddies snuck onto the field where it was being hosted and buried one of these in the back. Free delicious beer the next day.

A+

 

[springer]

. Free delicious beer the next day.

A+

From a beer ball?! no friggin way

 

[HorribleCatfish]

My brother and I were just talking about these the other day...and how some people would decorate their front yard lamp poles with them.

 

[Berlbrew]

LMAO, what do you mean what happened to them?? Everytime we throw a party (drunk people don't appreciate good beer so don't berate me please ) We ALWAYS get beer balls. We have a tap and $20 so odd bucks for 55 beers isn't too bad! They are made of plastic have a top with cardboard to push the tap through. I am sure any liquor store near a college will sell them. In fact, we are getting 4 of them this coming weekend. You can't reuse them as the tops get punctured but they work fine for getting everyone drunk on the cheap!

Yep! I'm a student at Northeastern University in Boston and beer balls are the go-to item for any party. In our neighborhood all the off-campus joints are small apartments so beer balls are perfect to get a group drunk. Plus when you're finished you can cut a hole in the top and wear it like a space helmet (excellent for walking home late at night!).

I have never seen them elsewhere, I assume we are keeping the beer ball concept alive!

 

[Araxi]

This just happened 2 nights ago. I decided to bottle my Hobgoblin clone that was chilling in a fridge in my basement. I get everything sanitized and head to the fridge. I squat down to heave the carboy for its short journey to a table beside the fridge for racking...my hand slips and the carboy lands right between my legs on my nads as I'm slowly fallling backwards...ouch. I would say i had beer balls...for 2 days.

 

[Frankiesurf]

I was 19 when I got married and the groomsmen and I were kind of upset that we were not gonna be able to get tanked at my reception. O' Contraire Monfraire, My best man came through for us as he showed up with one of these beauties iced down in the back of a 92' Berretta. Hooray, the night was saved! My dad asked why we kept going out to the parking lot that night, I think he new but was cool with it. Hooray beer!

My buddy had a mid '70's Mercury Marquis back in the early 90's. The beer ball was kept in a box with ice in the trunk. We modified the back seat (read: cut out a hole) so we could reach in and pump it. Then added some hose on the tap so it could stretch to the front seat. For passenger use only of course.

Semi-legal antics usually ensued.

 

[JKoko83]

You are correct. In the late eighties and early nineties, Coors released a similar product called a party ball.

Actually F.X. Matt Brewery in Utica, NY was the first to come out with the beerball around 1976-77. The big companies jumped on the bandwagon in the 80s.

 

[camonick]

 

[JKoko83]

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Lol Better late than never, Cheers!

 

[Hans O. Lowe]

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Literally laughed out loud.

Great reference!

 

[Brewer Mike]

Thanks for the necromancy! It brought back a bunch of memories!.
When I turned 18, my brother and a friend and I skipped school and put a pretty good dent in one. That was 1982. In 1983 they changed the drinking age to 19. So, I was able to legally drink for 3 months in 1982, couldn't for the first 9 months of 1983, and could again that September! In 1984 the age turned to 21, but I was grandfathered that time.
We used to go tubing on a local river. We put a little net over one tube and dropped in a beer ball. That was so much fun!