Anyone who has queued for years and years at the stadium waiting for their plastic cup to be filled with beer should rejoice: there is revolution in the wind! Namely, the new Bottoms Up beer dispenser is ready to roll out at a ballpark near you and should cut that line down by a considerable amount. What is the benefit of the Bottoms Up dispensing system? Well, the name says it all.

First of all, you won’t have to worry about attendants filling the cups – it’s now an automated system. Plus, you no longer have to worry about filling your cup halfway with foam. The new Bottoms Up system is exactly that. Fill your cup from the bottom up. How is that supposed to work, you ask?

You’ll have to buy a special cup, for starters. These will be sold on the site, so don’t let that worry you. At the bottom of the cup there is a special valve. Using magnets, the system opens the valve at the bottom of the glass and fills it with beer (little foam and no waiting). It can fill cups at the rate of one pint per second. Since those little plastic cups aren’t anywhere near a pint, you can expect it to take less than a full second to fill up and get you back in the game once more. Once full, the valve closes again, sealing the glass and keeping your precious beer safe in the glass.

To highlight their achievement, the developers posted a YouTube video of them filling 56 beers in one minute—that’s a major reduction in the amount of time you can expect to stand in line. Of course, you’ll still have to stand in line and pay baseball prices for that beer, but things are looking up all the same. The developers expect the system to sell well, and within a year it should be installed in quite a few of the country’s ballparks.

For those eagerly awaiting the launch of the home system, so they can go from the kitchen to the recliner even faster, they will have to wait. There’s a home system in the works for sure, but it’s not scheduled to hit the market until 2013; that’s another two years of waiting for in-house bottom-fill technology. Well, it just gives you a better excuse to go to the stadium in the meantime.

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Dustin Canestorp