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19th Jun 2017

This bar has introduced a beer ATM so you can pour your own pints

This sounds dangerous.

Orlaith Condon

Is there anything more dangerous than opening a tab on a night out?

The heartache the next morning after realising we were far too generous with our tab is a pain we wouldn’t wish on anyone.

That’s why we will never allow ourselves into this bar in Brooklyn, New York.

The Randolph Beer has installed a full wall of self-service beer dispensers for customers to pour their own tasty craft beers.

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The bar requires you to give them the card with which you’d like to pay and they will then give you the key card needed to operate the ‘beer ATM’.

With 24 craft beers on tap, you can even opt to taste one before committing to a full pint.

At the end of the night you simply give back the key card, and the bar will charge the damages to your card.

We just don’t trust ourselves with this.