Delicious, delectable and so dark, these Belgian chocolate cups make my mouth water even as I’m writing about them! These are the perfect platform to entice your guests this holiday season with an easy to use cup for your confections.

I personally like cherries in chocolate in these cups, and I’m sure mousse would be amazing as well… what is your favorite dark-chocolate-and-something combo?

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TAGS [ CHOCOLATE DESSERT CUPS | DARK CHOCOLATE SHELLS | BELGIAN CHOCOLATE | BELGIAN CHOCOLATE DESSERT SHELLS ]

We’re constantly adding exciting new products to our website. Whether it’s draft beer equipment, an incredible cocktail mixer or some kind of crazy t-shirt, there’s a whole process that happens behind the scenes. Before an item can achieve KegWorks.com website status it’s carefully selected, tested out, photographed, described and reviewed for quality.

Take this stainless steel straw for example. As a Marketing team, we’re smart enough to know that we can’t make it anything other than a straw – but we try damn hard to give you an honest and accurate idea of what kind of straw it is. As it turns out, this one is pretty awesome.

This is Greg (known on the blog as "Gerg"). Greg is key player when it comes to getting products on the site. One of his many duties is to take product photos, so you know exactly what you’re buying. It’s not as simple as pointing the camera at a straw and snapping a photo though - this guy has talent! In order to capture the real essence of the stainless steel straws, he made delicious milkshakes and root beer floats and recruited some fellow KegWorkers to partake in the shoot.

This photo shows Greg working his photographic magic. To the right you see Pete, one of the purchasing guys, our resident draft system expert and the official KegWorks model. Look around long enough and you’ll see his charming good looks all over the website!

The head of hair you see on the left is yours truly (known on the blog as "Liz") and I am the KegWorks copywriter. It’s my job to explain the straws in great detail and answer any questions that you might have in the product description.

Don’t worry- I am very qualified to write about these straws, as I drank an entire float through one right before I sat down to do tell you about them. I can honestly say that it’s not an ordinary straw. The stainless steel takes whatever you’re drinking and makes it a whole new kind of cold. When you’re dealing with frozen drinks, it’s quite an improvement. As strange as it sounds, there’s something to say about the mouth feel of the steel as well. It’s an entirely different way of drinking.

After the pictures and the description are all set, we load all of that information into the back-end of the site, have it reviewed for accuracy and then set it live so you can find it on our What’s New page.

There you have it folks, a stainless steel straw’s journey from KegWorks to you.

TAGS [ KEGWORKS | PRODUCTS | STAINLESS STEEL STRAWS | REUSABLE STRAWS | METAL STRAWS ]

Modular garnish trays aren’t typically something that I would think that deeply about, but these are pretty nice. Gently tilted for ease of access, a nice rotating cover and a snap-in modular expansion coupler to connect 10’s, 100’s or even 1000’s of garnish trays for an infinitely expandable garnish army! (muhhahahahaaa!)

Stylish black plastic and a gently frosted top grace this svelte garnish tray. The modular expansion joint connects the trays for a useful and easy to connect and disconnect bar tool. I also love the no-slip pads at the base to keep this garnish pod from slipping across a wet bar.

I personally plan on getting enough to go around my entire basement, to fully democratize condiments for all (and so that I won’t have to get them for anyone who visits my house; so get it yourself!)

TAGS [ GARNISH TRAYS | BAR CADDIES | HOME BAR SUPPLIES | BAR EQUIPMENT ]

You’ve been thinking about it. I know you have. You’ve been hemming and hawing and wondering… "how do I know which craft brews I would like?" and "what if I pick up beers that don’t suit my taste at all?"

Admittedly, there’s always a chance that, when picking up some beer you’ve never tried, you may not completely dig it. In fact, you may even straight up hate it. But here’s the thing; you’ll never know until you try. Plus, if you only ever stick to your tried-and-true, you’ll never have the chance to realize all that beer has to offer.

So, how does one jump into the world of craft beer? How do you know where to start? One great way to either get into micro brews altogether, or to try offerings from breweries not yet on your "been there, done that" list, is to have a beer sampling party with some friends. Pick up some Beer Tasting Glasses (these hold 2.5 ounces each) and ask everyone to bring at least one new craft beer for everyone to try. This way, you’re not stuck with a 6-pack of something you hate, and even if there is a brew you don’t enjoy, it’s likely that at least one of your guests will. Everyone wins!

Still not convinced? Beer reviews are a great way to help you make your pressing decision. While you may not always agree with what the reviewer has to say once you’ve tried it, at least you’re armed with a bit more knowledge about the style and brew than when you started.

So, what are you waiting for?

TAGS [ BEER TASTINGS BEER SAMPLING | BEER REVIEWS | BEER TASTING GLASSES | BEER SAMPLING GLASSES | CRAFT BEER | MICRO BREWS ]

Faux Leather…
Leatherette…
Pleather…

Call it what you will, but it always screams 70’s-riffic for me. Just think, you’re in your "super"-retro bar downstairs and you’ve never really removed all of the dark "wood" paneling downstairs. What do you do?

Embrace it! Do you really want to do the work of ripping down all of the paneling just to find 852 different layers of wallpaper and crumbling plaster underneath, or do you want to channel your inner pimp and go with the groovy flow!

Alright, so you’ve finally realized the potential of your "new" pimp-tastic bar. This is what you need. A faux leather table! This is the stuff that helps you realize your dream and gets you back to drinking, rather than drywalling the entire basement with your buddies again, because you installed it backwards.

Think about it. Let me know.

TAGS [ COCKTAIL TABLES | PUB TABLES | BAR TABLES | LEATHER TABLES | FAUX LEATHER TABLE | LEATHERETTE TABLES | BAR FURNISHINGS | DEN FURNITURE ]

Look, pouring a perfect pint of beer isn’t rocket science, but we’ve all known pours to go awry sometimes… maybe the keg isn’t cold enough, or the CO2 pressure isn’t set properly, or the keg is starting to go flat (perish the thought!). Who knows? Whether it’s a technical difficulty or you, the pourer of the beer, simply can’t get it just right, we’ve got a new faucet that could make bad pours a thing of the past.

Introducing the Creamer Draft Beer Faucet Head, a perfectly unassuming, standard looking faucet that’s anything but run of the mill.

This new piece of draft beer equipment tops every brew with a perfectly rich and creamy head, each and every time your pour a pint. Just pull the lever forward to dispense your beer, as you would with a typical faucet, then push the lever back to finish off your brew with a creamy, tight head. It’s that easy!

The Creamer Draft Beer Faucet features a chrome finish, a shaft constructed from stainless steel, and fits all standard US shanks and towers. Pick one up and try it for yourself today, just $20.95!

TAGS [ DRAFT BEER FAUCET | CREAMER FAUCET HEAD | BEER FAUCET HEAD | DRAFT BEER EQUIPMENT | DRAFT BEER SUPPLIES ]

Honestly. Are you still blocking your draft beer faucets from fruit fly intruders with crumpled-up paper towels? Really? Is that why the pint you poured me has pieces of beer-soaked paper floating in it? Ewe. Not acceptable, especially with all of the low-cost faucet caps out there these days. In fact, now we can do you one better than even a straight-up, simple faucet cap!

Introducing the Kleen-Plug Faucet Cap with Brush, which not only keeps your beer faucet and hose free of bugs, flies and the like, but even prevents sediment and yeast from building up in your tap. What does that mean to you? Better tasting, fresher beer! Plus, it’s designed to fit all tap sizes, from domestic to European.

The Kleen-Plug Tap Cap is yours for just $3.75.

TAGS [ DRAFT BEER SUPPLIES | BEER FAUCET | BEER TAP | BEER TAP CAP | FAUCET CAP WITH BRUSH | DRAFT BEER EQUIPMENT ]