If you want to know exactly how many kegs of beer, pounds of ice and number of cups you need to get everyone at your party hammered, give Kegulator a whirl. Tell it how many guests you are having, use their Ajax slider to set how drunk everyone will get, and the site will spit out the supplies necessary to achieve your goal. If you’re Canadian, use Beer Hunter afterwards to figure out where to buy all that stuff. Or use the open source beer recipe and make your own. Kegulator is the creation of Michigan’s Steve Richert.
“figure out where to buy all that stuff” – are you kidding, Mike? What happened to Open Source Beer?
A much needed addition to the web 2.0 landscape.
hah. Zoli, I hadn’t seen that. updating post.
God created a man, man created beer.so let us drink.
OMG, I better call my host to upgrade their servers!
is there an open source beer?
mmmmmmm. beer.
Already down? Damn.
No one can crash a site like MA.
considering beer has been around 6000 years or longer…I think a lot of royalties are owed to Zog for his Intellectual Property on beer…
(coincidently Zog also owns the initial patent on the wheel…and the slingshot…)
“is there an open source beer?” – was there ever a closed source beer?
it’s neat: sure
you get a chuckle out of the concept: sure
how many people will actually use it: very few, if any
drifter – i think you are stating the obvious.
come on, man, you’re losing your fine edge of sarcasm and wit.
Nice one.. Belgians rejoice!
Awesome. I’m planning to host a kegger the weekend after next, so we’ll see just how accurate this thing really is. And way to crash the site, Mike!
Hmm…. cannot connect…
It appears that the TechCrunch load simulation suite has caused the EV1 web host to spill its beer.
Party foul
“He was a wise man who invented beer”
-Plato
Nice, this reminds me of the Blood-Alcohol Content Calculator
http://www.1800...m/forms/bac.asp
There should be a part that also calculates the number of shots, ambulances, aspirins and unwanted conceptions.
Michael – you seem to know how to party – get everyone who is coming hammered.
Cool!
Note that the intoxication levels are based on average US-American beer. For European beer, the level “Totally and utterly rat-arsed” should already apply to the 10+ category.
come on the site does not even load.
@Eyeomgea – having 10+ 0.5L beers at a party (over time) should not be much of a problem for the typical European woman. You usually stay for lets say an average 7 hours at a party. Each hour you drink an average 4 beers (more at the beginning later perhaps less (beer)) -> 28 beers (14L). Add another 4-5 beers that you left standing around somewhere and 1-2 that you spilled over that lady/ies sitting on the sofa. Most likely you’ll also have to throw away a beer because someone used it as an ashtray.
Very neat idea. I will check it out once it’s back up again.
I see you mentioned BeerHunter for Canada. Check out http://www.partygps.com if you haven’t already which is somewhat similar for the U.S.
I think this is a really great idea- a niche, highly targeted web app that has no traditional analog. Reminds me of the boredat.com network, in a way. I don’t know what kind of ads he has (a t-shirt ad appears now), but this could hit a targeted market. I’ll stop now- I can only talk so seriously abotu a kegulator.
Mike – Have you ever followed up on the number of sites that have crashed after TechCrunch wrote them up? In recent weeks, I’m thinking Ning and Kegulator – I’m sure there are others?
Very cool.
- To point out – this site before TC or MA, was a 3-5 hour waste of time.
- This site after TC and MA, was a 3-5k in affiliate revenue generator.
- This site (2 weeks) after TC is a dead pool,
– there will be many imitators, Rb
Hey all, thanks for the feedback. Hope you like the site.
Michael, thanks for the nod! I didn’t expect such a speedy response. In fact, I foolishly left the app (it’s RoR) in development mode. The site is back up and running smoothly. Sorry for the oversight.
Drink up!
Steve
Takes the Thinking Out of Drinking
Someone ought to mash this up with HotorNot.com..
…and determine the odds of each person getting laid based on the number of beers being consumed at the party and the alcohol threshold required to actually find that person attractive enough to sleep with.
Run your guests through the BeerGogglator before every party and fine tune your invitees based on your personal chances or getting nookie…
Brilliant!
This is great for figuring out how to conduct a college party. I bet my friends wish they had something like this when I was in school. We’d be able to access the situation easier instead of having an extra keg that was there for another few weeks with hot beer.
Great Idea. I am sitting in my dorm showing my friends, and they digg it too.
I am assuming these numbers are based on a good guess or maybe a mean.
Users should be able to comment on the Kegulator’s accuracy. For example, needed two more cases and 20 more cups. More data could reduce the standard deviation and get an even better estimate of needed supplies.
This could get good!
for myself, and anyone else outside of the US, how many beers are in a typical ‘case’?
Lnahinu, Carl (co-founder) and I have had a lot of experience conducting college parties. This represents years of compiled drinking know-how.
PhillyIrish, good idea. I think we’ll add that to our to-do list. We love feedback. We might as well make that feedback available.
Evan… 24.
We’re going to add a “kegverter” page to define the volumes we use and to provide a simple conversion utility.
Keep the suggestions coming. This stuff is gold.
Steve Richert,
You gave away Carl’s third person comment…hah. Sometimes I find myself making those third person comments as well.
I really like the design. I shared it on facebook.
You’re at Michigan? I go to ND. Check out my site.
One more thing.
If I were you, I would not worry about the conversion to whatever it is they use to measure beer overseas. They can’t drink as much as us anyway. They will mess up your estimates. Focus on US college students and keep it funny, not a utility.
This could get good!
*revision*
Lnahinu…
Carl (co-founder) and I [ ... ]
No give-aways. Thanks for sharing via facebook. We decided to add that button as soon as we saw TechCrunch traffic headed our way.
Carl is a Michigan man. I’m a Michigan State Spartan.
We’ll probably keep the units imperial, but we’re getting a lot of international love. You never know.
Bottoms up!
Umm.. Ice in beer ?????
The History of Beer: http://www.frus...ustration/?p=16
Cheers!
I’m in love with the product.
I did a quick calculation. To get all 6B people on the planet hammered would require 500m+ kegs, and 2.5B pounds of Ice. Now that’s an opportunity.
Yes, this is very similar to the BAC Calculatorhttp://www.dui-...tcalculator.php
Nice work