We all know that most breweries and some good bars have a mug club, but I've never seen a Koozie Club....until now. I went to a local restaurant for the first time one day last week for lunch and ran into this club set-up just inside the door. In addition to 8-10 craft offerings on tap, but this place has a good selection of macros in bottles, cans and on tap. While I was there I didn't see many customers that looked looked like they were drinking macros (a couple tables were drinking wine), so the macro drinkers must be the evening and weekend crowd. So I'm curios - has anyone else seen a koozie club?
Never seen a coozie club (I always spell them with a “C” not a “K”). But I love me a coozie. I’ve got a pretty good collection of 25 or so. It gets so hot here in Texas I use them in the pool, out on the boat, when I’m bbq’ing, etc…. I’ll have to work them into my WBAYDN posts
I've got 5-6 of them but I never use them. I don't drink outdoors too much, and during the hot days of summer I stay indoors in the A/C climate. Want my coozies?
The only coozie I’ve used the last couple years is one made to fit around a shaker pint glass — yet I probably haven’t thrown out a single one from my beer-drinking past. The evolution of the humble coozie is a little sad — from a sturdy, molded rubber sheath reinforced with a hard plastic lip, to a thick foam cylinder, to an ill-fitting thin, folded piece of neoprene.
Details on how this works? Do you get a discount on whatever can/bottle you buy? I can see this in Florida and other hot states, and breweries up here sell them, but I'm not seeing the how this club works.
Does that koozie permit you to carry your beer everywhere, much like the emotional support dogs can go wherever the owner can go?
I used to have one from the the World of Outlaws that came with a freezable insert that fit inside the coozie. That one actually helped the first couple beers.
I don't know any details other than what is on that note in the pic. I just presume it's a 'service' that the restaurant provides for their customers who want it. Maybe it's an indication that the refrigeration in the restaurant can't get the beer cold enough, or maybe their customers take so long to get thru a bottle that it gets too warm to finish?
I get that it might be a thing, like a mug club, where you always get 'your' coozie. But, with mug clubs you generally have to buy in, and get a discount. Just not seeing how a bar can offer a discount on packaged product.
I’da been all over that. Those rubber coozies weren’t great, as far as insulation. But we weren’t waiting for any beers to ‘open up’ back then.
I'd assume that it's in a hot, humid place, and the koozies are provided to keep the beer from collecting too much condensation (we always called it "sweating"), as you're drinking it. Would work nicely for a bar with lots of outdoor seating, or big windows to let in fresh air.
Only macro-drinkers and other sipping heathens drink from cans or bottles. Alchemist drinkers are forgiven, they're just following orders.
No trade needed, you can have them. I'll PM you later today regarding the 'cookies' after I see what I have and get your address.
Me either, that's partly why I thought this was kind of an odd thing to do. Maybe there's more to it that wasn't listed on the description sheet.
That makes sense. It looked like they have outdoor seating at the rear, and I think a river is at the rear of the property. I'll guess they have A/C for the building, but maybe it's not efficient enough for this fairly large interior space.
