Finally, somewhere to put your beer that isn't the grass.
4.9 from 119 Steadi reviewsOne flexible-finned base that grips a can, a tallboy, a bottle, or the cup off the keg, the same way, cup after cup. Grass, sand, a rocking dock, a chair arm too narrow to trust — it settles in on all of it.
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Can, tallboy, or growler — a sticky note tells you what fits ↓
The situation
There are more beer shapes than flat surfaces to set them on.
Can, tallboy, bottle, growler, cup off the keg — where you're actually drinking decides which one is in your hand, and almost none of those places were built to receive it.
Grass hides slope, divots, and soft spots, and the median between parking rows doubles as the tailgate lot's cornhole court. Cans get set down beside the pitcher's box between throws — and a player stepping backward into position routinely finds one with a heel.
Sand shifts with every step, gust, or someone digging in a cooler nearby, so a can stood upright leans as the ground compresses unevenly under one edge — no reference plane, and no warning before it goes.
Pontoon seating and dock rails come with molded-in cup holders — drop-in, cut to one bare can's diameter. A tallboy, a bottle, or a koozied can doesn't seat in one, and the deck it's mounted to is rocking with wake and wind the whole time anyway.
Newer coolers mold a cup holder right into the lid — a real fix, sized to exactly one can. It does nothing for a bomber, a growler, or a tallboy, and nothing at all for anyone who's already wandered off to the game.
Padded and rounded instead of flat, a recliner or sofa arm gives a can no resting plane at all — and the garage floor waiting below it is usually pitched a few degrees toward the door for drainage, a slope invisible until something rolls down it on its own.
None of it's a disaster in the moment. It's just a decision that repeats all day without you clocking it — at the cooler, at the cornhole line, on the walk back from the dock.
You've lived this
This is what game day actually looks like.
A cornhole game gets going on the grass median between the rows. Cans go down next to the pitcher's box between throws, and someone stepping back into position finds one the hard way, with a heel.
The grill's going and a lawn game is running at the edge of the yard. Cans sitting in the grass nearby get clipped by a kid chasing a bag or a dog chasing the kid.
Cans and bottles end up on the dirt, the gravel, or a log ringing the pit, because none of the folding chairs have an armrest wide enough to hold one.
A passing boat's wake rolls the deck, and a tallboy sitting in the seat-back holder — built for a bare 12 oz can — works itself loose and goes over the side.
A can balanced on the recliner's rounded arm rocks each time the sitter leans forward at the TV, and eventually finds the floor's drainage slope on its own.
The mechanism
Built for ground that never stays put.
Grass hides slope, sand shifts underfoot, a chair arm runs narrow — a can's own base is too small to argue with any of it. The wide, low base spreads its weight across whatever's actually under it instead of balancing on a point.
Flexible fins close around the container from the sides, gripping the bottom inch whether that's a can, a bottle's rounded base, or the wide mouth of a cup off the keg.
A boat wake rocks the deck, a recliner tips forward, a stray heel catches it mid cornhole toss — the wide base keeps its weight low, so it rocks instead of riding the motion into a fall, and brings the drink back level.
The sticky-note check
You don't need a tape measure. You need a sticky note.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — the same ceiling as whatever you're about to crack open.
The standard square sticky note is exactly 3 inches on a side — a fact about sticky notes, and it happens to land right at the ceiling of what fits.
Look at the base, not the label or the rim — a tallboy and a bomber taper and flare in different directions, so the bottom is the only measurement that means anything.
Base sits inside the square? It fits. Hangs over the edge? Too wide. A tiny circle lost in the middle, under 2 inches? Too narrow.
No tape measure at the tailgate, no guessing in the beer aisle — one sticky note on the fridge, with whatever you actually drink out of.
Compatibility
The bottom inch decides, not the label.
Beer tests the fit rule harder than most drinks — a dozen container shapes across one rule: a container base 2 to 3 inches across settles in.
- 12 oz standard can fits
- 16 oz tallboy / pounder can fits
- 19.2 oz stovepipe single fits
- 12 oz longneck bottle fits
- 22 oz bomber bottle fits
- 32 oz crowler can fits
- Red Solo cup off the keg fits
- Insulated can sleeve fits
- 64 oz growler too wide
- Shot glass too narrow
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
There's a floor as well as a ceiling — under 2 inches the base sits too loose, same as a full growler runs too wide over it. The handled mug is the honest exception in between: the base would fit, but the handle lands right where a fin needs to grip.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
What it does
Three reasons it earns a seat at the tailgate.
Stands steady wherever the game is
The wide, low base spreads across grass, sand, gravel, or a rocking deck instead of balancing on a can's own narrow footprint. Someone steps back into the cornhole box, a wake rolls the boat, a knee bumps the chair — its wide base of support keeps it from tipping, and the drink settles back down.
Holds whatever's actually in your hand
A can, a tallboy, a longneck, a bomber, a cup off the keg — beer shows up in more shapes than any one holder is built for. Cans and bottles nestle in; the cup off the keg gets gripped the same way, by the bottom inch, through the flexible fins.
Rides along without the gear-y look
One piece of matte flexible material in a muted color, no clamps or plastic-gadget shine. It tosses flat into the cooler bag or the tailgate box and doesn't look out of place next to the grill.
Against the alternatives
The cooler bag's other gear, held to the same standard.
| A koozie | The Beer Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| Grass, sand, or a chair arm | Adds grip on the can, not the base | Wide, low base — settles in |
| A boat wake or a rocking dock | Doesn't change what's holding it up | Low, wide base rocks with the roll, resists tipping |
| Whatever's actually in your hand | Built to grip a can, not much else | Same base grips a can, bottle, or party cup |
| A stray heel, elbow, kid, or dog | Same small footprint, same tip | Rocks and settles, resists tipping |
| Keeping the beer cold | Built for exactly this, insulates well | Not insulated — a different job |
| Cost | cheap, and most people already own one | one small piece, covers the other job |
It's built to insulate, and it does that job well — but that's the whole job. It adds grip and a little girth, not a wider base, so a koozied can leans on grass or a chair arm exactly like a bare one.
A real fix for one problem: it's molded to a single can's diameter, and only helps whoever's standing right at the cooler. A bottle, a growler, a tallboy, or anyone who's wandered off to the cornhole line gets nothing from it.
Built around one can or cup diameter, so anything with a handle, or anything taller and wider, does not seat. On the water it's also bolted to a surface that's rocking on its own, so even a correctly sized drink isn't actually secure.
It solves the sand-shifting problem for exactly one drink in exactly one spot — but it needs ground a stake can push into, which rules out asphalt, a boat deck, or a cooler lid, and it doesn't move with a group playing cornhole.
Why more than one
Two identical cans. One question.
Everybody's cooler is stocked from the same case, so everybody's pulling out the same can. Two tallboys end up side by side on the tailgate table and neither guy can swear which one's his by the next cornhole round — a dumb argument nobody wants to have twice in one afternoon.
Build your set
Give everyone their own.
Pick a pack, then give each one a color — so nobody has to ask which drink is theirs.
From the reviews
What buyers say.
Real reviews of the Steadi — these ones mention beer life.
I had to order these (in case I didn’t see them again.) I was hoping shipping wouldn’t take too long and it didn’t. We just love them. Our friends are visit and using them while sitting on the sofa with their beers. I can even fit my thinner koozie under mine, for my soda. Happy I purchased them. They’re also a convers
Customer · 2026-06-26My husband knocked his beer onto the couch for the last time. This thing is genius.
Rodriguez · 2026-05-29All 119 reviews are for the drink base itself, collected across every place people use it.
Good to know
Asked before kickoff, answered here.
Does it actually work set down in grass or sand?
That's the whole reason it's built this way. Grass and sand give a narrow can no fixed footing to stand on; the wide, low base spreads across either instead of balancing on a point, and the fins keep the can from rattling loose when someone walks past. Bump it off level and it settles back.
I mostly drink out of a growler or a bomber, not a can — does the size matter?
The base is what matters, not the bottle. A bomber's base and a standard can's base both land in the 2 to 3 inch range that settles in; a full 64 oz growler runs wider than that and is better set down carefully and left alone.
Will my tallboy or 19.2 oz fit?
Yes — a tallboy and a 19.2 oz single share close to the same base as a standard 12 oz can; they're just taller, which is exactly why they tip more on their own. Measure the base, not the height.
Does it stake into the ground or clip onto a rail?
No. Nothing pushes into sand or turf and nothing clamps to a boat rail or a chair frame. It sits on top of whatever's under it — grass, asphalt, a deck, a cooler lid — and works the same on all of them.
Does it hold up on a rocking boat or dock?
Hard, flat, or moving surfaces are exactly where this holds steady — a wide footprint and a grip on the container's base resist the wobble a boat deck adds on top of everything else. It's not magic; a hard direct hit is still a hard direct hit.
What about a chair arm or the top of a cooler?
It works at least as well there as on the ground — a folding chair's narrow armrest and a cooler's curved lid are exactly the kind of small, unreliable surface the wide base and the grip were built to improve on.
Does it work for a red Solo cup off the keg?
Yes — a party cup's base is inside the range that settles in. It drops into the fins the same way a tumbler does, gripped by the bottom inch instead of the wide, tippy rim.
How do I clean it after a day at the beach or the tailgate lot?
Rinse the sand or the dust off, or wipe it down, or put it in the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to trap grit or come apart.
Who makes it, and where do I buy one?
It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 90 days to change your mind.
Ninety days, wherever the cooler goes.
Run it through a month of real game days — grass, sand, the boat, the garage. If it doesn't do what this page says, email hello@steadilabs.com and it gets made right. No forms, no fight.
Veteran-founded · Patent pending · Made in Orange, California
One base, every game-day surface.
The can stands on the cornhole line, the cooler lid, the boat deck — and the only thing that goes over at the tailgate is the bag toss score.
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