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Do you hear that? It’s the sound of hipsters’ heads exploding nationwide. The Pour Mason, by Intelligent Design Company, combines a few of a hipster’s favorite things — pour-over coffee and mason jars.
The Pour Mason adds an aluminum and nickel pour cone to the mason jar’s screw top. The result is not only the hippest way to brew your coffee, but it then creates the perfect travel mug to help you fit in at the rooftop garden.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… But someone has come up with an alternative use for a mason jar, and they’ve launched an online funding campaign to get the project off the ground. Only this time, the mason jar will help brew your coffee.
The Portland Press uses a few carefully constructed, American-made parts to help turn a mason jar into a functional French press. The Portland Press is also fitted with a wool cozy to keep your beverage warm and to help distinguish you from the other hipsters who are only using their jar to drink from — those posers. Find out more about the project here.
The problem with disposable cups and plastic bottles… Most of them are non-biodegradable, and don’t smell enough like rich leather. Enter the Chug-A-Lug — the answer to your sustainability concerns and your need for the feel and scent of quality.
The vegetable-tanned leather cozies securely wrap around a mason jar, that you could then fill with your favorite beverage. With a lid that seals securely, and the Chug-A-Lug’s solid brass lanyard, it could instantly become your new favorite travel mug.
Creators of the Chug-A-Lug, Freyja and Gibb, have recently started a Kickstarter campaign to help obtain the materials needed to get the cozies into mass production. Head over there and find out more.
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Mason jars have been used to mix cocktails, dispense your candy, and occasionally do some masonry-type stuff. Now, they’re here to help pour your beer with The Mason Jar Beer Tap Handle. Created by Etsy member, William Reeves, the pint Ball Jar is fitted with the proper attachment to place on any beer tap.
The best part… The lid is still removable, so you can place whatever you’d like inside your new beer tap handle. Might we suggest beer?
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In keeping with the awesome new trend of finding alternative uses for the ubiquitous Ball Jar, the Holdster will help turn your jar into the coolest of drinking vessels. Each Holdster is handmade from genuine vegetable-tanned full-grain leather, and secured at the seam by either copper rivets or a cross-stitch.
Not only will The Holdster keep your mason jar secure and easier to handle, but it will help insulate, and will have your drinking hand smelling of rich leather all day. The Holdster is currently sold out on its site, but more extensive production is planned and looking for funding on Kickstarter.
