Chicago Cubs fans have been able to purchase a baseball bat filled with beer since early April. The fun costs a mere $38, about 760ml of beer fits in a bat. Incidentally, the MLB team did not introduce the unusual glass without reason. Instead, it is intended to solve a well-known problem in the stadium: so-called “beer queues” made up of dozens of beer mugs stacked on top of one another, which have become a nuisance at Wrigley’s Field Ballpark. It all started years ago as a funny gag: fans stacked their empty mugs on top of each other, which then became “beer snakes”, i.e. snakes made of empty beer mugs. Recently, however, these queues often got so long that they became a security risk, even blocking the view of some fans and being removed by security officials. With the new baseball bats, stacking is much more difficult.
