Biking around the Minneapolis area with my friends is one of the best things in my life. North America rules!

When you arrive at that moist square of turf in which you choose to sit down and drink a beer with your comrades you will, in fact, need a beer to drink. Barring some vastly superior technology such as a rack and panniers its kind of sucks carrying beer cans around in a messenger bag or backpack.

Solution: Beer Tubes.

I had been thinking about making something like this for a while now. I believe Bjorn was talking about sewing something similar a while back. Stumped but determined I recently crowdsourced it on Minneapolis Bike Love.

Voila! A forum member had seen 6′-8′ tall sections of honest to goodness can koozie material at Ax-Man. Of course Ax-Man. What a fool I was for not even calling you my sweet sweet consumer baby. I believe my shaking and eternally thankful hands plunked down $3 for the sleeve.

Giddily I rushed home and bought a case of the good stuff. Stuffed three cans in and cut sections with a bread knife. I have enough for a 12 pack and 2 tall boys. Sweet.

Fits like it should. No pointy beer cans jabbing me in the back. And when the load sits like it you can bring along more fuel.

Like Beer? Check out the Booze tag on MPLS Doesbike.com