Going Camping? Get Canned!

Posted on May 20, 2013 by silipint

Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner; we know your Silipints are packed, but here’s another suggestion – bring the most popular camping refreshment, & my personal favorite; bring beer. But bring it in a can!

Glass has no place (none, no exceptions!) at a campground. Silipints are the obvious replacement for glass pints, but what about glass beer bottles? Let’s take a closer look at the new phenomenon of canned microbrews (Disclaimer: Silipint does not condone mass-produced, watered-down beers. Call us beer snobs. We’re okay with that).

Poaching an egg in a Silipint to complete this backcountry Eggs Benedict. Can your pint do that?

We all know by now that Silipints are the perfect camping drinkware. They’re unbreakable, reusable, eco-friendly & provide a fun, insulated drinking experience for all your hot or cold camping favorites. Plus, you can pour hot bacon grease in them, use them as hot pads, or even poach an egg in them! Silipints are the Swiss Army Knives of cups, & like any multi-functional item, they sure come in handy at the campsite, especially when paired with canned beer.

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding canning & if it’s good for your beer, if it’s environmentally-friendlier than glass, if it makes the beer taste metallic, & so on. Let’s put some of those misunderstandings to rest, shall we?

Keeping Oregon beautiful with an eco-friendly Silipint & a can of Fort George’s 1811 Lager

Simply put, canned beer is better for your beer than glass. Cans protect brews from harmful sunlight & are airtight, keeping out any unwanted oxygen at the bottling stage. So why haven’t craft breweries been canning all along then? Good question. My guess is the costs associated with canning vs bottling & the previous stigma of bottled beers being elite, both added to this decision. With the help of savvy beer drinkers & informative sites – like Craft Cans – that stigma is being reversed &, with the rise of mobile canning units – like these guys – canning beers in small numbers is becoming more affordable. Another benefit, & one plainly obvious on a summer camping trip, is that canned beers cool quicker than their glass counterparts. Whether in an ice chest or river, quick cold beers are always welcomed.

Be green this Memorial Day with Silipint & GoodLife’s canned IPA!

Broken glass be gone, of course, but cans are also eco-friendlier than glass in that they’re easier to recycle, require little packaging & are easier/lighter to pack out with you. This only helps dissuade would-be-litterers from leaving bottles on the ground – just crush your cans & pack ‘em out! Your load is always lighter on the way out (if you do it right).

And finally, since most craft canners are now using an internal spray-coating, preventing the beer from ever having contact with the aluminum, the feared metallic taste shouldn’t be an issue either (just don’t use one of those clunky stainless steel pints!). Another way to prevent the aluminum metallic taste, of course, is to pour your can in a pint rather than allow direct mouth contact with the aluminum can. Which brings us back to Silipints, the perfect insulated, non-glass companion to your canned camping adventure.

And with that, we at Silipint wish you a safe & memorable holiday weekend.

Just don’t get too canned.

Cheers,

Kevin

New to canned beer? Want to see what’s out there? Here’s a great place to start!

Hydro Flask growlers are great glass alternatives!

Still not convinced canned beers are for you? Fill a non-glass growler instead!

So You Want A Custom Silipint™?

Posted on May 14, 2013 by lstephenson

Custom Silipint™ products are great for just about everything – wedding favors, bachelor/bachelorette parties, family reunions, annual camping trips/adventures, you name it! Once you’ve figured out what product you want, the first step to creating an awesome custom Silipint™ product is establishing what (artwork) to put on your Silipint, Half Pint, Shorty or Shot!

Our products are printed using a unique screen printing process with special food-grade silicone inks that ensure your artwork or logo never scratches, peels off or fades. Because of this unique process we limit artwork to one- or two-colors* and we require ALL artwork to be submitted in VECTOR FORMAT. Additionally, we greatly appreciate it if your artwork is submitted exactly how you would like it on your Silipint™ (camera-ready). This means if your artwork is typically 4 colors, please submit your .eps file already reduced to one- or two-color with all text outlined and transparency flattened. If applicable, please embed colors as PMS solid-coated colors.

Following these guidelines allows us to keep quick turnaround times and ensures that every custom printed Silipint™ product is of the highest quality and looks great!

So what is vector art and where do you get it?

As always, we’re happy to answer any questions you might have about artwork or check if what you are working with – will work! Please just send a short email and/or your artwork to our graphics team. You can also get an idea of what sort of artwork looks best on a Silipint, Half Pint, Shorty or Shot on our Flickr or Pinterest page, or check out our Custom Order Detail page for more information!

Cheers!

* due to registration concerns we can only print two-color artwork on a case-by-case basis.

Think: Reusable Instead of Disposable

Posted on April 25, 2013 by silipint

For Earth Day this year, we had a bunch of awesome ideas on how to make this observance special and promote Silipint’s positive environmental qualities. In the run up to the date, we decided to simply plant a tree for every pint sold. It’s not our greatest or grandest idea by any means, as our busy-as-ever lives honestly took those over, but it will help to heal the earth in some small way.

So what do we do with all of the other ideas we had? Leave them to be as just that- ideas? Of course not, sili! Beyond all things silicone, Silipint is really this: a reusable cup. We want to convince the world to have a Silipint on hand at every moment! OK, if it’s not a Silipint, please just have a reusable cup of some kind.

Every little bit counts! It starts with having the correct mindset- the more conscious we are of lessening our impact/footprint on the earth, the more we will do every day to help improve it. We can make a difference.

Here is one main idea that is easily executed, and also easy to talk about and pass on to others:

Reusable instead of disposable!!

Here are a few stats, thanks to the Environmental Action Association, to fuel you into action:

Disposable cups account for 18% of Americans’ daily waste.

One drink a day in a disposable container = 23lbs of waste in one year.

Americans toss roughly 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 2.5 million plastic bottles every HOUR!

Plastic, Styrofoam and paper cups sealed with plastic resin basically never decompose. They also all use precious resources such as petroleum and/or trees.

The staggering consumption of Americans is one thing (let alone the waste that this produces), but the impact that one-time use cups attribute to much of the pollution in our oceans, waterways, landfills, road-sides and hillsides is unnerving!

So what can you do to observe Earth Day this year? Buy a Silipint, and we’ll plant a tree. But more importantly, buy a Silipint and keep hundreds of one-time use cups out of our environment! THINK: Reusable instead of disposable!

Cheers to Earth Day, and to you!

St.Patty’s Day Celebration SALE!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by silipint

St. Patty’s Day, March 17, 2013 is only 17 days away, which means that now is the time to plan for a fun and safe holiday weekend (that’s right, St. Pat’s falls on a Sunday this year… ahhhh yeah!)

When I think of St. Patty’s Day, fond memories of corned beef cabbage, pitchers of green beer and pinching any lad foolish enough not to wear green come to mind. It’s a day to celebrate with some boisterous cheer, and usually includes some March Madness, a welcomed bonus.

Used for Irish Car Bombs, ye’ll no longer have to worry about yer pint or shot cracking or chipping yer teeth when you use these beauts.

For others, specifically pub owners, I’m willing to bet that their memories aren’t as overwhelmingly lighthearted as my own. The Irish and Irish-for-a-day – like myself – are a rowdy lot, especially considering the estimated 4.2 billion pints of beer that are consumed on St. Patty’s Day- of that, 13 million are pints of Guinness! Shattered glasses, chipped shots from drop shots, green sticky floors and bar fights come to mind… In the UK alone, it’s estimated that 5,500 glassings (stabbing with broken glass bottles/pints) happen each year – and ye can bet a good number of those take place on the rowdiest of days, St. Pat’s.

Well, Silipint thought it’s about bloody time to put the kibosh on that!

We recommend using our Silipint combo (below) this St. Patrick’s Day for a safer celebration. Our pints and shots can take a beating, but won’t ever return the favor. If ordered before March 17^th, 2013, we’ll throw in a free Sili shot with any purchase, as well as free shipping with any order made online!

So, for this St. Patrick’s Day, we ask that you be safe, be green, and be sili.

Cheers! -Kevin

Announcing 2 New Members of the sili Family – The Half Pint and Shorty!

Posted on February 18, 2013 by silipint

Many useful things come in sets and, in my opinion, are very under-appreciated:

· Fingers

· Donuts

· Wrenches

· The Senses

· Planets

· Santa’s Reindeer

· The Beetles

· The Armed Forces

· Measuring Spoons and Cups

We at Silipint found that our original Silipint and Silipint Shot Glass were getting a little lonely. Although there are a plethora of uses for the Silipint and Shot including (but not limited to) drinking, freezing, golfing, heating, hitting, dropping and celebrating, not to mention tailgating, parking lot football playing, no breaking and baking, we still found that there were some uses unaccounted for that a slightly larger Silipint family could help address.

With great pleasure, I give you the Silipint Half Pint and the Silipint Shorty!

: Cheers to the new sili Half Pints!

: Insulated & unbreakable for the backcountry!

: The Shorty rocks glass!

: The Half Pint will be kids’ and parents’ favorite!

With the Shorty, you can add drinking coffee, enjoying a glass of wine while camping, or sipping your favorite cocktail on the rocks (like, actually sitting on the rocks, unafraid of dropping you glass) to your growing list of Silipint product uses.

With the Half Pint, go ahead an add watching your kids drink worry-free, enjoying a glass of bubbly, or using a beer taster that isn’t cheap, throwaway plastic at your next brew fest to the list.

After all, there are many things that come alone which seem very lonely:

· A single hand trying to give a high five

· A tire

· A duck

· A single picture on a blank wall

· A mismatched sock coming out of the dryer

Stated very succinctly, there is a distinct difference between being alone and being lonely. All Silipint products love to be used independently at times, but that doesn’t make them lonely. And now, thanks to the new Silipint Shorty and Half Pint, you don’t have to drink alone regardless of your location, paw size or beverage. Well, unless you wanted to, of course…

Happy sili,

Rick Fredland, Owner/CEO