Handmade Recycled Beer Glasses

Drink beer. Save the World?

I’m usually not that excited by recycled homewares, but I do like well designed novelty goods, am a fan of handmade things and I certainly like things related the alcohol consumption. Check out these drinking glasses blown out of Red Stripe Beer bottles.

NickPaul, the designer and sole craftsman explains his process.

These are 12 once Jamaican Red Stripe beer bottles that have been opened up into drinking glasses. The process starts by washing the bottle, then placing it into an annealing oven. The oven is set to one thousand one hundred degree, and let to sit for 30 minutes. A rod is then dipped into a melted pot of spectrum 96 glass and formed into a punti. The punti is then touched to the bottom of the bottle and transferred to a glory hole furnace. The bottle is heated until the glass begins to move. A special tool call jacks are then used to open the narrow bottleneck into a cylinder. Once the bottle is in its final shape it is then placed back into an annealing oven to cool of the course of 30 hours, to assure no stress fractures form in the cup.

Sounds complex. Red Stripe isn’t your brand? me neither. But take a note of what he says next.

I can turn any bottle with a painted label into a drinking glass. Coke, Corona, Pepsi, Rolling Rock, Red Stripe, Grey Goose.

Ahem. I know exactly what I want now.

Check them out on Etsy

and check out his other items (the lucky beer one is kinda cool)

via Geddem

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