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While we cannot condone drunken pedalling any more than we can condone drunken driving, we will concede that there are times when even the most conscientious cerevisaphile cyclist needs to bring home the brew. Fortunately, beer-loving bikers can now select from a growing array of gadgets and specialty bikes designed to simplify the task of using the world's most popular vehicle to transport the world's most popular potent potable.

Herewith, a collection of clever hops haulers, from a simple six-pack strap to an 11-seat pedal-powered pub.

Picnicking can be cumbersome for pedal-pushers, explained Fyxation co-founder Ben Ginster, especially when you’re hauling a clunky cluster of brews.

Enter the leather six-pack caddy, “a cooler way to carry beer,” which Ginster and and his brother introduced to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based bicycle company’s accessory lineup. “It’s like putting a six-pack in the back of your car, instead it’s on your bike.”

The caddies are made right at Fyxation headquarters and treated at a local tannery. Milwaukee is not only a beer city, but it’s historically a leather city, too, Ginster said. “There used to be tonnes of tanneries in Milwaukee; now we’re sort of transported to the past.”

Hopworks brewmaster and founder Christian Ettinger’s dream of owning a jockey box on two tyres that offers a “simple and effective way to pour a pint” had been simmering for a while, and then cargo bike creators at Portland, Oregon-based Metrofiets made that fantasy a reality, throwing on speakers and a pizza-warmer to really bring the project to a new level.

Affectionately dubbed Hopworks’ “mobile party” by Ettinger, the beer bike provides all who encounter it “miles of smiles, high-fives, cheers and most people begging you to stop in your tracks to wet their whistles.”

While Hopworks may lay claim to one of the most polished one-person party bikes, its hefty price may scare off potential buyers. But that’s no reason to abandon one's party bike dreams.

Retired master plumber Mike Bowser not only made his very own tailgating trike, he wants others to follow suit. He’s shared instructions for building a beer-slinging tricycle on DIY website instructables.com, encouraging other tinkering types to try their hands at constructing the perfect pedal-powered bar.

“If you’re a good inventor, you kind of like to share what you like and see what other people do,” Bowser said. “If people didn’t want to share, a lot of ideas would be lost or never realized.”

Unlike the Hopworks beer bike, Bowser, a self-described “older guy” went with three wheels rather than two, “so I wouldn’t fall over”.

Scott Lelikoff is no stranger to life on two wheels, so he was well aware that one of the major drawbacks of most bikes, particularly during longer rides, is that they tend to offer only a basic water-bottle holder. So beer-loving Lelikoff, who was about to depart on a ride from Seattle to San Francisco, created a leather carrier large enough to hold a 2-litre jug of beer.

“We were able to stop at breweries on the way [and] fill up, so we’d have, like, two beers a night,” he explained. “It’s a good way to try different local beers from places you’re passing through.”

Since that successful ride, Lelikoff opened an Etsy shop to sell his beer-carrying wares, and he’s been running Pedal Happy Designs full time for about two years.

Ken Szal, founder and owner for Buffalo Pedal Tours, encountered his first pub crawler on a trip to Austin, Texas, back in 2014, and he knew then that he wanted to bring the quirky tour equipment back to his hometown, Buffalo, New York, a recovering rustbelt city with a rapidly expanding brewery scene. So Szal purchased a pub crawler from Oregon and put it on the road. Two years later, he now owns three of the bar bikes from different major global manufacturers, a bar bike tour business and is working on creating his very own brand of bar bikes, which he plans to distribute worldwide.

In the last year alone, Szal’s tour company hosted 850 trips, and that success does not surprise him in the least.

"It's like floating through the city at your dining room table with your friends,” Szal said.

Kichesippi Beer Company boasts what is said to be Canada's very first beer bike. The keg-carrying cycle was co-created by the Ottawa-based brewery and a local bike shop, Tall Tree Cycles.

The Kichesippi bike's oak countertop includes a tap connected to the 50-litre keg. Brewery co-owner Paul Meek told CTV's Ottawa Morning Live the bike is a modified version of a traditional cargo bike, but with a kick. The attached CO2 tanks guarantee a fresh, frothy pint wherever the the bike's rider hitches its kickstand.

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