Nick pack!

Hopside down

As I was going to take my own advice (for once) and prepare to chill for tonight’s game with a cold beer, I wanted to post a review on one of the products we feature at King’s Crate called the “Hopside Down“. We have this awesome beer glass in our Oh Canada! crate, and it really is the centrepiece to the gift.

One thing to note immediately is that this glass is hand-blown, and sort of confuses the eye for a moment. People aren’t sure what to make of it at first. It fits a 350mL bottle of beer perfectly, so a beer can won’t fit.

One thing I didn’t expect was how cool it keeps your beer. Because the beer sits in the internal “funnel”, your hand is never directly palming the beer! Really cool!

Well, ends up I’ve had to open a beer about 3 hours before gametime, but it was all in the name of SCIENCE!!

That’s the byline on the TSN article about tonight’s upcoming gold medal game between Canada and the U.S., and I couldn’t agree with it more! We played each other on New Year’s Eve, and it was a hell of a thrilling game! Best of all Canada won it in the shootout, advancing us to the semi-finals.

Even with that win in such recent history, tonight will be no easy task for our juniors. An injury to a key defenceman, the fact we gave up two short handed goals last game, and the knowledge that we are both the favorite to win AND going for a historic sixth consecutive win can be daunting.

So grab a cold one (or dozen), this should be one for the ages!