Reblown bottle glasses

Glassblower Nick Paul of Chicago drinks beer. (Hopefully, he has some friends who help him out with it, from time to time.) Then he takes the empty bottles and blows out their necks to make flat-sided tumblers. Then, in a stroke of packaging/marketing/recycling genius, he puts them back in their original six-packaging and sells them through his online storefront, Windy City Glass. The tumblers have smooth, rounded rims and are annealed to relieve internal stresses. No part of the original bottle is wasted. I love the green-on-green simplicity of his http://www.makersmarket.com/products/1075-recycled-heineken-beer-bottle-drinking-glasses-functional-art-functional-trash“>Heineken glasses, above, but the gestalt awesomeness of his Arrogant Bastard Ale tumblers, pictured below, may prove irresistible to me. If I know me, you folks have about an hour after this post goes up before I cave in and buy them for my elf myself.

If you’re non-beery for whatever reasons, Nick also offers some non-alcoholic-beverage-endorsing versions of his tumblers. Here, for instance, is a set made from a four pack of Stewart’s grape soda. Check out how you can still see the brand molding from the original bottle in the wall of the glass.