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Sports Bars Will Never Be the Same

If 26-year old Jeff Libby gets as rich as he should, the rest of us will forever be grateful to him and his invention. Libby is the creator of the “Table-Top Beer Tap” system, which is exactly what it sounds like.

No more waiting for your waitress to notice your empty glass, just a never-ending flow of suds. Libby’s system would basically put a beer tap on every table, for you to serve yourself at your leisure. This will revolutionize getting drunk.

The system works by measuring how much beer gets poured, and you get charged by the ounce. The good news, you pay for what you drink, possibly saving you money. The bad news, you also have to pay for the drunk guy who filled his glass off of your table when you went to the can.

For the behaved patron, this idea is genius. To the drunk 21-year old — don’t ruin this for the rest of us. That means don’t steal beer from another table and don’t do keg stands on your table. You may hate behaving yourself now, but you’ll thank me in a few years.

This has a chance to be truly revolutionary. Think of the idea of having a dozen different beers on tap at your own table. Real beers too, not just domestic and domestic light. I can’t wait until the day when I can serve myself Guinness, considering the fact that 99% of bartenders don’t know how to pour one.

From what I can tell, they charge you by the ounce and have a decent selection of beers to choose from. When your table hits a certain number of ounces served, you get cut off. At that point, a bartender or server-type person comes over and checks on your table. If you look not-hammered, your meter restarts. I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong.

This is a great invention (more of an innovation, really), and stands to change the way we all watch ballgames at the bar. This stands to do for bars what the fountain soda machine did to fast food joints. I can’t wait to see this in person.

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