What's In the Lab These Days?

In a couple of weeks you'll be able to get your hands on Beer Slush Generator.

You're probably aware of the rock salt trick with your ice to get your beer nice and slushy.  We're packing the salt in travel size bags you can store in your golf bag or tackle box.  Don't get caught outside with only mildly cold beer this summer.

Pizza Night

We fired up the Big Green Egg this evening for a pizza session.  Aside from the standard pepperoni pizzas we made a couple special pies.  First up is a Longhorn Bulgogi Pizza.  We used a Sirloin from Dear Run Land & Cattle Company.

Bulgogi Recipe

  • 1 lb Sirloin
  • 1 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 3/4 cup ponzu sauce (optional, you can just use soy sauce)
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup diced white onion
  • 1 tablespoon garlic
  • fresh cracked black pepper

Make the marinade by combining the soy sauce, ponzu (optional), brown sugar, onions, pepper, and garlic.  Thinly slice the sirloin and cut the slices into smaller pieces.  It helps to have the beef really cold while cutting.  We covered the sliced beef with the marinade in a FoodSaver Marinating Canister for 20 minutes, but you can marinate it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

After you've marinated the beef, pour the liquid in a skillet over medium high heat.  Reduce this down considerably, and then add the beef.  Cook to your desired doneness.  At this point you could serve it with rice, but we're going to use it as a pizza topping.

John is into pizza a little more than most people.  He keeps 2 different strains of Italian yeast cultures going.  The pies below are on John's secret dough.  For the Bulgogi Pizza we used a spicy Korean BBQ sauce instead of standard pizza sauce.  Top with your Bulgogi, shredded white sharp cheddar, and brush the crust with sesame oil.  We like to run the Big Green Egg so the dome temperature reads around 550 degrees.  Let it run at this temp for a bit so your pizza stone gets to a decent temp as well.

After about 8 minutes we had our pizza.  Top with green onions and sesame seeds.

Bulgogi Pizza

Bulgogi Pizza

Bulgogi Pizza with cucumber kimchi

Bulgogi Pizza with cucumber kimchi

We also knocked out a BBQ pizza using meat from Stiles Switch.  They have a sandwich called Buford T's Diablo Sandwich (think Smokey and the Bandit).  Anyway, this is the pizza version with their brisket, jalapeño & cheddar sausage, sliced jalapeños, white cheddar, and bbq sauce.

Diablo Pizza

Diablo Pizza

You're welcome.

 

Rainbow Trout in Texas? Yes.

Took advantage of the nice weather in Texas this weekend to catch some trout in the Guadalupe River.

Obligatory product shots

Obligatory product shots

Obligatory product shots

Obligatory product shots

And yes, of course we caught some fish.  They just weren't that big.  It takes more skill to catch the smaller ones.

John releasing a trophy trout.

John releasing a trophy trout.

But Does It Keep My Drink Cold?

You've seen the BSG ONE take a bullet, but does it keep drinks cold too?  I had some time while I was smoking my Thanksgiving turkey to gather some data.  It was sunny with a temperature in the low 60s.  I set up a ThermoWorks ThermaData with 2 thermocouples to test a BSG ONE and a high quality Neoprene Koozie.

Here's the chart for the first hour.  The beer I picked for the Neoprene happened to be slightly colder than the BSG ONE, but without getting all scientific on you, the performance is basically the same.

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November Status

We finalized our packaging design, and we expect it to be ready in the beginning of December.  As soon as that happens we're ready to release!

Hunting season is upon us so we decided to do a limited edition camo as well.  Not sure if you can see this (it is camo after all), but here it is.

More Details

We're still over a month away from our planned release, but it's time to fill in some more blanks.  What are we up to?  We've been posting pictures of the BSG ONE.  It's the best huggie/koozie yet to grace your pocket.

Why?

Fits most anything you're going to drink.

Folds for convenient storage.

Multiple layers that keep your drink cold and safe.

Layers?  Yeah, 1000D Nylon exterior, 2 layers of Kevlar® 29 (that's right, the stuff they put in bulletproof vests), Neoprene, and a slip-resistant interior.

Another Preview

What size drinks do we work with?

Normal 12 ounce cans?  Of course.

Skinny 12 ounce cans?  Yep.

24 ounce cans?  Looks like it.

Even 24 ounce bottles.


It Begins

Koozies, huggies--whatever you call them--we're into them in a serious way.  Keeping your drink cold is important, but we think you can do a little bit better.

The next generation of drink protection has arrived.  Here's a little recap of some field testing.

WARNING:  Do Not Attempt At Home

First batch:

First test is a hit from a Ruger LCP (.380 ACP).

The .380 did not penetrate.  Cans don't fare so well (maybe we can make cans next).

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Up next was a Kimber Grand Raptor II (.45 ACP).

We can't stress enough that you don't want to get shot with anything, but you really don't want this.

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The wrapper is still going strong, but the can has seen better days.

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Want more video?  Here's a plain can getting hit with .380.