A friend ("Cousin Matt" in the story below) and his cousin invented the Bottlekeeper. A few years back he shows up at a pool party and hands out some prototypes. At the time I recall he had sales of $3,500 the previous month. Two years later I'm invited to their company Christmas party and they rented out a huge hall with catered food, an open bar and a band. I was informed their sales were approaching $2 million/yearly. They were on Shark Tank and Mark Cuban invested $1 million but more importantly they got a nice bump in publicity, which translated into increased sales. Couldn't happen to two nicer guys and I have unlimited access to whatever style of Bottlekeeper I want and give them out as gifts to friends. Cool concept.

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BOTTLEKEEPER:

THE TRUE STORY

On a warm but fateful summer day, Cousin Matt was sitting lazily on a beach with our Uncle Van. As Uncle Van’s beautifully full push-broom mustache was gently wavering in the sea breeze, they began complaining about the warm beer simmering in their ‘red party cups’. There are few things that can kill your mood on a relaxing, warm summer day, but the taste of piping hot suds is surely one of them.

As they pondered the depth of their predicament, a serious brainstorm began regarding solutions that would allow you to enjoy the cool refreshing taste of carbonated joy in a way that didn’t require you to slam the beer in 3 minutes or less…as much as you try, you just can’t slam them all.

It was at that very moment that a golden light flashed above Cousin Matt’s head as if Zeus himself had sent a bolt of lightening from the heavens above; “what if we could leave the beer in the bottle and put the bottle in something that would keep it cold, like one of those stainless steel water bottles?” and BAM!, BottleKeeper was born.

This post was edited on 10/22/20 at 12:55 pm