This month Ideal Wine Coolers is pleased to be offering over 20% off of selected Danby Products.  We will offer these highly reduced prices throughout the month of February 2010.  Danby manufacturers a wine cooler that will have many highly sought after upgrades.  This is your chance to get a top quality wine cooler at reduced prices.  We are also offering one of the most popular beverage centers that can store cans as well as wine.  If you often wanted to serve your visitors a good cold draft, we also have placed one of Danby’s most popular kegcoolers on sale. See our “Monthly Sale Page” at the top of this Blog for more information and product pictures.

We also offer many quality wine cooler products from EdgeStar, Haier and Vinotemp.

Author: Ronald Senn, Vice-president, Ideal Wine Coolers, 2/1/2010

A sports fan as defined in the dictionary is “an enthusiastic devotee or follower of sports.” A sports fanatic, as I am, is “a person with an extreme enthusiasm or zeal for sports.” The difference between a fan and fanatic is a matter of degree. A fanatic will follow, watch and comment on any and every sport that is on the forefront for the day.

A sports fanatic will know something about every sport played. They know whether a sport is presided over by a referee, umpire, official, timer or judge. They know which sport requires the players to police and enforce their own rules. When asked in what sport do the game officials run around in shorts, a fanatic will know the answer. They know that some sports officials are “zebras,” and they know why.

A sports fan or fanatic will try his or her best to attend every sport in person. Most of the time that is impossible. Therefore, sports fans and fanatics need a minimum set of tools to advance their passions. The first tool is old school, the AM/FM radio. Of course, satellite radios with multiple sports channels are an advancement that is often pursued. The next tool in the set is the various kinds of computers and hand-held electronic devices that can send text messages, pictures, e-mails, news flashes, surf the web, etc.

The ultimate and most vital tool is the television, but not just any ordinary one. The television must be Hi-Def with a screen as big as a drive-in movie theater. The sound system must be multi-speaker surround sound that will rattle the walls. The theater furniture must include big soft couches, recliners and footstools, enough for all your sports-watching friends. You cannot claim to have been there “to see it” unless at least you watch it on TV.

To complete the ambiance of the sports watching experience you also need food, chips, dip, peanuts, pizza, nuts and of course the basic hot dog with mustard, ketchup and onions. The last item is the beverage. Canned beverages are okay, but just like being at the ballpark, the draft beer would be the ultimate.

Today, there are many options for draft beer at home. Some companies offer mini-kegs that easily slip into the refrigerator, if there is room. A better solution is to purchase one of the many keg refrigerators, coolers or dispensers now available on the market. There are mini, pony and standard keg refrigerators that can handle pressurized or non-pressurized products. Some keg coolers are set up to dispense more than one type of beer, are insulated for indoor as well as outdoor use and can convert to keep other beverages cool as well.

Whether you are a sports fan or a rabid fanatic, the enjoyment is the experience of seeing the “big play” or the “once in a life time match up.” My home theater is fully equipped and ready for use with my sports friends. I was lucky in life because I found and married another sports fanatic. Actually, I would have to say she is more like a sports “nut,” which is even more severe than a fanatic is.

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Author: Ronald Senn, Vice-president, Ideal Wine Coolers  

Our old refrigerator suffered multiple forms of discrimination and was found guilty of not “fitting in.”  Ultimately, a sentence of hard labor in our garage became its fate.  In a few short months, it died.

How did this happen?  It all started one day when my wife said, “Honey, I want to show you something in the kitchen.”   Apprehensively I arrived in the kitchen, and she started her discourse aimed at demeaning our existing refrigerator.   First came, “It’s the wrong color and doesn’t match anything in our kitchen.”  Then, “It’s not big enough to hold everything I need it too, especially with all the entertaining we do.”  Lastly and with no less derision, she said, “its way too old to do the job any longer.”

In a matter of a few minutes, she had discriminated against “Old Harvest Gold” with respect to color, size and age.  However, I knew better than to argue.  I relented and a new refrigerator became a family household primary and the old one became an outcast in our garage located in the Sonoran Desert.  The first few months the garage temperature hovered around 105 degrees.  The next few months the temperature cooled to a balmy 95 degrees.  The refrigerator’s death was predictable and ultimately final in month number five.

In the garage, we had used “Old Harvest Gold” for storing canned and bottled beverages, extra milk bottles, and other items the new larger refrigerator could not hold.  We even used the vegetable drawer to keep our batteries fresh.  After the death and subsequent recycle of the old refrigerator, our new refrigerator had to accommodate “Old Harvest Gold’s” contents.  Putting that collection in the new frig was a solution my wife did not think was useful.

I went searching in the market place and found some consumer products that offered an easy, space-saving solution to our dilemma.  These products were beverage coolers and chillers.  Some of these products could accommodate over 100 canned beverages, five 2-liter beverage bottles and even store our favorite wine.  I could purchase stand-alone or under-the-counter models in several different sizes.  I was lucky to fine one that fit nicely under the counter where my old trash compactor currently existed.  I purchased it and easily installed it myself.  Dilemma solved—or at least I thought it was.

About a month later, I again heard the plaintive cry from the kitchen, “Honey can you come here please?”  This time, her complaint focused on the kitchen’s appearance.  She said, “The modern refrigerator is great, but the cabinets and counter tops now look out of date.”  She went on to say, “I love the beverage center and since we’re going to remodel the kitchen, can we find a larger built-in model that will hold more cans and wine?”

I sold the smaller beverage center and went back to the store, where I found what “we” wanted.  I brought it home for the kitchen remodel contractor to install.   I also stopped at the local hardware store to buy some earplugs just in case “Honey” came floating over the airwaves again.

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Author: Ronald Senn, VP Ideal Wine Coolers, September 2009