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Mmm... beer. In two words (or one word and one guttural sound) Homer Simpson summed up our love affair and affection for a few cold ones perfectly. While we have craft brews bursting at our seams to [...]

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Pizza and beer go together like, well, pizza and beer. To be fair, beer and pizza are both delicious separately, but it's one of those "whole is greater than the sum of the parts" situations [...]

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We’ve been known to enjoy a beer or three on occasion. Seeing as how this is Cool Material after all, it should come as no surprise that we have a pretty expansive collection of openers [...]

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Have you ever bought a 6-pack of some crazy microbrew only to have to carry it through the rain while the cardboard turned into something mushier than an 80's power ballad? How could we be transporting [...]

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There is no greater simple pleasure in life than getting home from a hard day at work and cracking a cold one. If you're anything like us, you try to stay away from the twisties [...]

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We wouldn't trade our friends for anything in the world. With that said, when it comes time to pick up the check it seems like the same few guys always conveniently have to go to [...]

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Normally wielding sharp objects is frowned upon while ingesting alcohol. The two seem to present few positive outcomes. While this holds true most of the time, it isn't the case in the kitchen. Cleaning a rack of [...]

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Pint. Cerveza. Brewski. Beer goes by many names and comes in many forms—and we don’t discriminate. We don’t care whether it comes in a pint glass, a red SOLO cup or out of a funnel. [...]

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Here at Cool Material, we don't screw around when it comes to drinking. Round these parts, the only thing as serious as payday is happy hour. When your boss is picking up the tab to [...]

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Have you found it difficult to accurately portray your drinking problems to random onlookers? Has a flask simply not gotten your point across? Has your order of "Popov on the rocks" merely garnered a few glances? Then [...]

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Opening beer bottles is like putting gas in your car. It's time consuming and a relatively boring affair. We know, we know, it only takes like five seconds to open a beer, but if you [...]

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Do you always buy the same beer? Of course not. Sure there's the old standby, but often you wanna try something new that you can brag to your friends about discovering. In a sense, it's all about being [...]

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You can learn a lot about a man by the tools he keeps. If you want to learn about guys in general however, running into open garages and rifling through toolboxes is probably a poor way [...]

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Bacon, maple syrup and beer (otherwise known as the perfect breakfast) have come together to create one unholy, yet highly delicious substance. Bacon Maple Ale, the result of a collaboration between Voodoo Donut and Rogue, [...]

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A beer label is a good indicator of whether or not a beer is being sipped a bit too casually. If it comes off clean when you put your fingernail into it, quit nursing and cash [...]

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