Beer mug produces a head of foam on demand

[Video Link] Brando, the infamous Hong Kong maker of irresistible crappy gadgetry, has solved the age-old problem of not having an easy way to create a foul-tasting, foamy barrier between your lips and your beer. Introducing the Professional Beer Foam Making Mug. Unfortunately, it's battery free.

Professional Beer Foam Making Mug

• [Grahamers2002]

  “Fill with mingled cream and amber,
  I will drain that glass again.
  Such hilarious visions clamber
  Through the chambers of my brain.
  Quantist thoughts – queerest fancies,
  Come to life and fade away:
  What care I how time advances?
  I am drinking ale today.”
  – Edgar Allan Poe 

• [KBert]

  OOoooohh!!!

• [derek prowse]

  am I the only one wondering why the film crew only had access to two working models?  Perhaps there are only two made in existence…  I will now quietly speculate as to the arcane and precious ingredients needed to conjure such dark machinations.

• [Bob N Johnson]

  If you describe a gorgeous, fluffy, aromatic, sensuous head of foam on your beer as a “foul-tasting, foamy barrier between your lips and your beer” you are seriously undereducated and unappreciative of one of the finer aspects of the most amazing and most important creations of all time, beer

  How to pour the perfect beer.

  • [ambiguator]

    Couldn’t agree more.
    If your beer’s head is foul, you’re probably drinking a foul beer.

  • [samari711]

    Or he only drinks shitty beer

    • [Mark_Frauenfelder]

      I don’t drink alcoholic beverages at all. I wish they’d bring back prohibition, just as long as they don’t ban coffee.

      • [Nagurski]

         Well fine then, Mr. crankypants.

        • [zotlerg]

          ..He probably needs a drink! ;)

      • [Cameron Postelwait]

        i agree as long as they make the other thing legal.

        ..well no, i change my mind.  never ban beer please.  

      • [purple-stater]

         If you don’t drink, then how can you say it’s “foul-tasting”?

      • [Chentzilla]

        To each his own stimulant.

    • [miasm]

       …these guys are all making oblique references to Santorum, right?

  • [David Smith]

    Yep.  It can be amazing.  There was a dark English brew I had one time, Young’s I think it was, with a head that was just delicious.  The rest of the beer was a letdown after that head.   Might have been their chocolate stout, can’t quite remember. 

  • [RedShirt77]

     Guinness Foam is akin to ice cream in my mind.

    I would assume that some foaming mug would produce foul slime.

    • [jerwin]

      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Boddingtons-bitter-cone-small-52354.jpg
      Not that I’m a fan of Boddington’s. 

      • [Daneel]

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEU1nQeGNA

  • [Baldhead]

     Agree it shouldn’t be foul- but it still strikes me as being not a useful thing- I specificially pour to reduce the head as the head = part of my glass filled with stuff i can’t drink. And trust that I know my beer very well. Just never saw a use for the head, aside from cosmetic appeal.

  • [hardwarejunkie9]

     It sounds to me as if those here need to learn more about the glorious art of homebrew. Best hobby ever.

    I’m making a raspberry chocolate stout (previously have made scotch ale, brown ale, and irish red).

    • [MrWednesday7]

      Raspberry chocolate stout! nom

      • [teapot]

        …more like nomitai!

• [IRMO]

  Another invention that fills a  much needed gap.

• [lava]

  I have a Brando mic for my iphone that works great

• [bcsizemo]

  Everyone knows the secret to a good head is the proper splitting of a beer atom.

• [Kenji Kiuchi]

  I agree with Bob. On another note, Brando is not the maker, only a distributor in this sense. The commercial, mug and origin are all Japanese. It is manufactured by Takara Tomy Arts, as you can see in the final frames of the video. Here is the original website: 
  http://www.takaratomy-arts.co.jp/specials/jokki_hour/

  • [teapot]

    Thanks man you saved me some Google-fu. I should’ve sent this to BB a few months ago when my partner showed it to me.

• [Brad H.]

  Is that like MIDI ska music or am I just too stoned?

  • [Boundegar]

     Wonderful Japanese ska!  Mighty Mighty Bossutonzu!

• [vonbobo]

  Let’s see…

  “I for one welcome our new Sparkling Beer Mug Overlords!” ?
  nooo.

  “Look at this Sparkling Beer Mug! Just look at it!”?
  mmm, close…

  “all your Sparkling Beer Mug belong to us”?
  nope.

  “needs more cowbell!”?
  no

  “fucking Sparkling Beer Mugs, how do they work?”
  hrmm, close enough!

• [boris kane]

  The Japanese have to be the only group of people to love >2 fingers of head.

  Which is absolute nonsense, given that their beer is in fact quite good, for lager.

• [Tim Shepherd]

  Is it just me or does the guy who first appears at 0:13 sec look like Masi Oka? GO HIRO!

  • [rrh]

    I like to think of them brainstorming cross-sections of people enjoying their product.

    “Okay, we got younger parents, older parents, businessmen, boys’ night out, girls’ night out, punk band. Anything we forgot?”

    “What about guys drinking by themselves in a darkened room?”

    “Ah! Important demographic, can’t forget them!”

  • [papiermeister]

     YATTA!!! Not sure if that really is him, but I thought that, too.

• [mintyy]

  “maker of irresistible crappy gadgetry” from a site that sells Fred housewares, the undisputable king of shitty, unbelievably wasteful, visual pun gag junk?

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  What next?  A cilantro FlavrPak for the Enfoamerator?

  • [Mark_Frauenfelder]

    Are you trying to make me lose my lunch?

• [lecti]

  (dark room guy) Friends not included. :(

• [donovan acree]

  A plastic mug that makes your beer taste flat? Where do I sign up?

• [Ito Kagehisa]

  We here at the Cult of the Stache wish to state that we disapprove of this invention, disapprove of excessive beer head, and disapprove of Mr. Frauenfelder’s call for Prohibition.  We recommend Mr. Frauenfelder should grow a large handlebar and cut back on the caffeine.