December 4, 2009 | reviews

While one’s ability to be a quick draw was prized in the Wild West, it’s less than laudatory to boast the same abilities armed with the device pictured here, the ‘beer holster, unless you’re planning on dashing someone across the temples in a bar fight.

Described by one user as a gift that works ‘for the beer drinker who has everything’, (including, it would appear, a color of jeans only available at a novelty store where sunglasses would be required indoors) the beer holster is “Made of rugged leather, [and] snaps onto any standard belt [with] adjustable nylon strap wraps around the thigh for additional support.”

While the device’s gift appeal is obvious—wrapping several down each leg and then betting how many bottles can be kept airborne through impromptu juggling—a nearly $40 price tag keeps us from any kind of ‘This town ain’t big enough for the both of us alcoholics” novelty buying.

A ‘convenient holder when he needs his hands free for grilling’ (we’re assuming the grilling in this case refers to the dressing down you’d get after admitting $40 was spent on this cincture for sphincters)  the product description, not surprisingly, only references the male pronoun.

A budding Thomas Edison noted that they “thought the leg strap was a little short” and later “A belt clip that pivots would be an improvement” (we’re unclear as to whether this would be around the circumference of the waist (awkward) or up and down as the latter would result in spillage.

We’ve previously covered the Remote Control Beer Pager here, designed for beer problem drinkers who may have misplaced their drinks at a party without first identifying them with some kind of indelible marker, and who require a button pressed on a mini-remote that might be affixed to a belt as well.

We’ll keep our readers posted if any other beer device attached to other articles of clothing come down the assembly line this holiday shopping season.