Civil Engineer by Day Inventor by Night with Joey Crookshanks

Kanawha Valley Hustlers · Jul 3, 2025 · 4m

I meet Joey Crookshanks at Meet Up 64. He tells me about his business, Tailgator Outdoors. About a year and a half ago, he invented a product that turns a cooler like a Yeti into a beverage dispenser. You screw it into the drain plug, and it lets you keep a mixed drink separate from the rest of the cooler’s contents. He came up with the idea because he and his wife prefer different drinks and needed a way to keep everything in one place without mixing flavors or messing up the ice.

This isn’t his first invention. Back in 2020, Joey worked with Marshall University and the Robert C. Byrd…