Car Oil Filter Lamp
You’ll have to change the bulb every 6,000 miles, but Etsy seller ZAL Creation’s lamp is worth the cost. He also makes lamps out of beer bottles, beer cans, and orange safety cones.
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The World Record for Riding a Unicycle Down a Line of Beer Bottles
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Lutz Eichholz has accomplished the impossible. He previously set the world record for riding a unicycle down a line of beer bottles (a highly competitive event) at 7.99 meters. Now he’s smashed that record by riding 8.93 meters at Unicycle Israel Convention in Tel Aviv.
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A Temple Made From Beer Bottles
Now here’s a place Homer Simpson could really worship, the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew Temple in Thailand. It’s made from over 1.5 million green Heineken and brown Chang beer bottles.
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Flight of the Bumblebee, with Beer Bottles
Who says that beer and classical music can’t get together in musical harmony? Rimsky-Korsakov is surely smiling in heaven hearing this rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee, as played with beer bottles.
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Beer Bottle Christmas Carol
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The Swingtop Philharmonic Orchestra, an all-star combo assembled especially for this project, plays “Oh, Christmas Tree” on instruments made from beer bottles in this ad from Belgiun brewer Grolsch. -via the Presurfer
Klein Bottle Opener
A Klein bottle is “a closed surface with only one side; formed by passing one end of a tube through the side of the tube and joining it with the other end.” Pictured above is a bottle opener shaped like a Klein bottle. It was made by Bathsheba Grossman, who explained:
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Gruesomely Awesome BottleHood Tumblers
Halloween BottleHood tumblers: Asylum | VooDoo | Resurrection – $14.95
Next Halloween (or this Christmas – hint hint), dress up your beverage in these gruesomely cool BottleHood beer bottle tumblers. from the NeatoShop. They’re “upcycled” from beer bottles by local artisan cutters. Fun to use and good for the environment, too!
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World’s oldest beer recovered from shipwreck
Divers have recovered what’s thought to be the world’s oldest beer from a 200-year-old shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.The find was made as researchers recovered drinkable Champagne from a Russian cargo ship which crashed in the 1780s.The divers say they were surprised to find a handful of beer bottles during the salvage operation near the [...]
