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Make a stealth beer can for drinking in public

How to make a hidden cover for your beer can when drinking in public.

For those public situations when an open beer can is "frowned upon". It's camouflage for your beers! An open beer is "frowned upon" in many places. This little trick was taught to me by some of my softball buddies. I'm sure it's an old one but I'll share it with you anyways.
If you want to keep your brew on the down low then make a sleeve out of a soda can to cover up your beer can.

Build a remote controlled beer keg

Learn how to build a remote controlled beer keg. Not only can you deliver beer to friends, but you can control the drinker's access to it. It's sort of like a remote control bartender!

We update the classic beer keg with motorized wheels and a remote control tap to build the ultimate robotic beer keg.

Although the modern beer keg has been with us since the 1960's the technology surrounding it has advanced much. Sure the materials might be different, and the gas mixture more suited to wide variety of ales, brews and beer, but really it's still a big metal cylinder that's heavy and difficult to control access to. So we figured we put a few 21st century bits of technology on the thing and turn it into a mobile and easily controlled beer dispenser.

Systm is the Do It Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest tech projects. We will help you avoid pitfalls and get your project up and running fast.

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Brew your own Homemade beer

The days of moonshine and bathtub gin may be long gone, but you can still brew up a homemade batch of the freshest beer you'll ever taste.

After you’ve made the wort and pitched the yeast, it's time for fermentation and bottling.

Step 1. Prepare

Step 2. Sanitize

Step 3. Boil the wort

Step 4. Add hops and boil

Step 5. Cool the wort

Step 6. Add cold water

Step 7. Transfer wort to the fermenter

Step 8. Prepare to add yeast

Step 9. Pitch the yeast

Step 10. Seal

Then...

Step 1. Ferment

Step 2. Watch

Step 3. Prepare to transfer

Step 4. Take a hydrometer reading

Step 5. Boil the priming sugar

Step 6. Siphon

Step 7. Move your beer into the bottling bucket

Step 8. Transfer the siphon

Step 9. Bottle your beer

Step 10. Cap

Step 11. Condition the beer

Pull a buck out from under five quarters on a beer

Impress your bar buddies or win a few bets with this neat beer bottle trick. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to pull a dollar bill out from under five quarters on a beer bottle. You'll need a fairly flat and firm dollar bill to do this trick, five quarters, and of course... the beer bottle. You only need one finger to pull that buck from atop the beer bottle, under five quarters.

Bust the bottom of a beer bottle out

Try a new approach to breaking the bottom of a beer bottle out. This video tutorial will show you a new way to bust the bottom of a beer bottle out, specifically a Labatt's Blue. Make sure you put on all of the necessary safety gear, like safety glasses (or just regular glasses) and gloves (or hockey gloves). Instead of using your hand to bust the bottom out, try using a rubber mallet. You don't even have to open the beer to do this version of the beer bust trick.

Pour a Black and Tan beer with Bass and Guinness

This video tutorial will show you how to pour a Black and Tan beer with Bass and Guinness. If you don't know what a Black & Tan is, a Black & Tan is a beer made by the coupling of a pale ale (or bitter, or mild) with a dark beer such as a stout or porter. Keep in mind, there is no one, official, Black and Tan.

Pouring a Black and Tan is easy. The basic steps are:

1. Pour half of a bottle of Bass Pale Ale in pint glass.
2. Gently, fill the glass the rest of the way with Guinness by pouring the stout over the back of a spoon.

Start yeast for brewing homemade beer

This is a demonstration of how to make a yeast starter using a flask and stir plate. According to discussions on the forum at northern brewer dot com you can use an air lock without a stir plate but when you DO use a stir plate you should use foil or a dense foam stopper instead.

Crack a beer with a lighter, CD, etc with Lifehouse

Bryce from the band Lifehouse shows us how to open beer bottles with a lighter, water bottle, & cd. This is a necessary trick for any beer afficiando. Need a bottle opened but you don't have a bottle opener? Easy. Look around. There are tons of things that can crack a brew.

Open beer bottles with another beer

Don't wreck your pearly whites. Pop the cap with another bottle. Use the bottle as a lever. Reattach the bottle cap so you can open the second bottle.

Chill a beer in 20 seconds

How To Chill your favorite drink instantly using household items. Need an ice cold beer. Craving a cold glass of water? This is easy to chill your beer using air dusters. Chill your beer by inserting the can into a plastic jug and then filling the plastic container with the compressed air from an upside down can or Dust Off.

Open a beer bottle with a chain saw

Watch as this guy uses his chainsaw to open a beer bottle. This is a classic bartender's trick on how to crack open a beer with a heavy duty power tool- the chain saw! Get the crowd going with the brute force of a chainsaw bottle opener!

Open a beer bottle with a gold wedding ring

Easy way to make some money on betting in the bar. Open a twist off or non-twist beer easily with a gold ring. Put that wedding ring to use and get your cold one cracked at the bar.

DIY an RFID beer safe

Dave and Pat break down the basics of RFID technology and show you how to put it to use by building an RFID beer safe!

RFID, or Radio Frequency ID, is everywhere: key cards in office buildings, electronic tollbooths and even passports. But how do you take that technology and use it for something a little more personal?

Today on Systm we will be looking at how RFID technology works and demonstrate one possible use for around the home by building our very own RFID-enabled beer safe. It's just the thing to keep your brew safe from thirsty and inconsiderate roommates, friends or even in-laws!

Of course you can't walk into any Radio Shack or electronics store and buy RFID gear off the shelf. You'll probably have to get most of the gear online and two of the best places to do that are APSX and Trossen Robotics. Both offer Parallax's BASIC Stamp programming board that David uses in this episode. The kits will run around $100 but provide pretty much everything you need to get started. You'll also find RFID readers, servos, and tags you'll need to complete this project. Jameco is also an excellent source. If you're not sure how to program the board, don't worry - the manuals that ship with the kit are pretty straight forward. Plus Trossen Robotics provides excellent support if you have any issues with the gear.

Build a beer bong

Beer bongs are simple to make, and it's not difficult to make them even more user friendly. You will need a funnel, a valve, a tube, and clamps. Watch this video bartending tutorial and learn how to make a beer bong.

Brew a homemade English mild beer

Learn how to home brew your own English mild beer with expert tips and advice on ales and lagers in this free beer recipe video series on making your own English mild beer. Homemade beer always tastes better, as long as you don't screw up too bad.

Reload a .38 Special cartridge and kill a beer

Learn how to get the maximum performance for the lowest price. The first thing you want to do is not even worry about buying a reloading manual; there's more information in there than anybody could ever learn, and it won't really help you make the most accurate load, so throw it away! Next, you'll need some handgun brass, or expended casings, from the shooting range. Then, you'll need some bullets, which can be iron cast wheel weights. Now you will need some black gunpowder. After all of this, you will need a sophisticated loader, like the Lee Loader. Now you are completely ready to reload a .38 Special (.38 Spl or the .38 Smith & Wesson Special).

Select the case you would like to use, put it in the decapping holder and drive out the primer. Put a new primer into the cartridge case, add powder, and install the bullet. If you do it right, you'll get a load that is economical and easy to shoot in your revolver, pistol, or other handgun.

This video tutorial will show you exactly how to reload a .38 Special cartridge and kill a beer.

Open a master lock with a beer can

In this how-to video you will learn to open a master lock with a soda/beer can or an empty gift card. This can prove to be helpful, so you can prank your friends, or just steal something. Not to endorse stealing, this instructional video is for informational purposes only.

Chill a beer in 5 minutes or less

Just got back from the store with the beer for the party and it starts in two hours? Then learn how to chill a beer quickly in a crunch with minimal equipment. Kelly from HackCollege shows you 3 different methods of getting your beer ice cold in this how-to video.

Hack a soda can beer sleeve

Chris of HackCollege shows off how to get away with some stealthy drinking in public. Whether you're using it for some extra security in your dorm room or to down one at a tailgate, this little hack should come in handy. Watch this how-to video and learn to hack a soda can beer sleeve.

Win free beers with this bottle cap trick

Learn how to win a free beer every time with this great bar trick. Challenge someone to blow a bottle cap into a bottle, setting the prank up like in the how-to video. It is a great trick because it is very hard, impossible even, to do, and is especially effective at a bar when people have been drinking and are ripe for being conned. Check out this video practical joke tutorial and use your new powers of deception at your discretion.

Open a beer bottle with newspaper

Watch this video to learn how to open a beer bottle with a newspaper. This easy to learn bar trick can win you tons of free beers, just bet your friends that you can open a beer bottle with a piece of paper.

Get rid of excess beer foam with Urawaza tricks

Melissa shows us how to get rid of unwanted beer foam using the Japanese Urawaza method of olive oil. This is a great bar trick that makes it easier to down a lager fast.

The household ingenuity captured herein really caught fire in the post-war period, when Occupied Japan's poor economy made a virtue out of frugal and clever homebrew products. The name Urawaza comes from gamer slang, referring to the programmers' back-doors that let players gain points, levels and advantage by doing something unexpected, and it's the perfect appellation for the surprisingly satisfying knowledge that you can keep your cut flowers longer by dropping a copper penny in the water, carry a heavy box more readily if you stack it atop a lighter one, and so on.

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