[alt146]

There is a bottle opener on every set of keys I own. Funnily enough my beer of choice is a screw-cap, but I keep the bottle opener handy so I can stop my friends gouging holes out of my lighter to open their beers.

[D'rek]

You're all a bunch of pansies! The bestmost way is to open a beer with another beer!

(I know someone who does that anyway... I tried it and failed miserably)

[Macros]

its dangerous, can result in a lot of beer wastage.

[Cold Iron]

Macros, on 02 August 2010 - 11:41 AM, said:

The edge of my phone is pretty chewed up from bottle opening, but still going strong.
Also, only amatuers (sp?) spill when using the old edge of table base of hand trick

Amateurs and drunks?

[AlanH]

D, on 02 August 2010 - 04:28 PM, said:

You're all a bunch of pansies! The bestmost way is to open a beer with another beer!

(I know someone who does that anyway... I tried it and failed miserably)

It is indeed the best way. And when you get to the last bottle, just combine anything solid with your thumb and you're good to go.

Macros, on 02 August 2010 - 06:27 PM, said:

its dangerous, can result in a lot of beer wastage.

Just not true, as you're opening the one that's pointing away from the ground, not the one pointing towards it.

[alestar]

C'mon, everyone knows the best tool for opening a beer bottle is a hockey stick!

[Aptorian]

THIS is a beer opener:



Here's a commercial with it in use, just switch to 0.25 if you don't want to listen to a Danish telephone commercial about rednecks and old school cell phones.

It is lovingly dubbed a "cake opener", since the case of beer is the guys birthday cake.



Here's another video of a pneumatic beer opener, only takes one though

http://www.bilgaller...2&VideoID=31350

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 03 August 2010 - 07:15 AM

[Ember]

There was a girl I knew from parties who could open bottles with her teeth. Useful I suppose but not entirely classy. Mind you she also shat in someone's cat box once so as you can imagine she's not a very classy individual.

Here in Canada I'm never quite sure which bottles are screw-tops and which aren't. I'm more of a wine drinker but when I do drink beer I usually drink Alexander Keith's and that's a screw-top... anyway I have an abundance of bottle-openers/lighters. Just in case.

This post has been edited by Ember: 03 August 2010 - 08:07 AM

[cerveza_fiesta]

in Canada, I would say most of the "mainstream" ie large Canadian brewery beer is screw cap without a doubt. Even bottles are largely of a common 350ish milliliter size and brown colour.

The only stuff that has opener-required tops is the import stuff and some of the microbrew stuff with weird-shaped bottles...but a good portion of them conform to the standard bottle size and screw-cap style too.

My favourite beer is a microbrew made & bottled about 10 minutes from my house and they actually use full 1/2 pint bottles and opener-required tops. I've gotten very proficient with the various improvised opening methods of late.

For certain the most impressive things at parties are those generally used for completely different purposes, like the BBQ scrubber, hammers, old skillsaw blades, etc....

[Tapper]

Screw caps... Meh. I've only just got used to the fact that the wines that come in bottles without a cork but with a screw cap may actually be worth drinking... but beer is thankfully simple opener required tops, and the bigger the bottle and the higher percentage, the better:
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It wouldn't be beer otherwise, imho.
I'll make an exception for Grolsch and their marvellously looking tops:  Grolsch_Beugel.jpg (10.45K)
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[MTS]

A wine bottle with a screw cap?

This post has been edited by MTS: 03 August 2010 - 12:23 PM

[Mentalist]

@ Apt: that commercial is epic, the ringtone is "The Final Countdown". I approve.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 03 August 2010 - 12:42 PM

[dktorode]

MTS, on 03 August 2010 - 12:23 PM, said:

A wine bottle with a screw cap?

Screw caps are better for the wine than any form of cork.

[Tapper]

MTS, on 03 August 2010 - 12:23 PM, said:

A wine bottle with a screw cap?

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[Tapper]

dktorode, on 03 August 2010 - 12:46 PM, said:

MTS, on 03 August 2010 - 12:23 PM, said:

A wine bottle with a screw cap?

Screw caps are better for the wine than any form of cork.

aye, but it is non-traditional.

[dktorode]

Tapper, on 03 August 2010 - 12:52 PM, said:

dktorode, on 03 August 2010 - 12:46 PM, said:

MTS, on 03 August 2010 - 12:23 PM, said:

A wine bottle with a screw cap?

Screw caps are better for the wine than any form of cork.

aye, but it is non-traditional.

So you would drink corked wine simply because of tradition?
True, there is no drama in unscrewing a bottle of wine.
But 1 in 10 bottles of wine with corks are 'corked' by the time its on the store shelves, talk about suffering for your fashion.
most people cant even tell if a wine is corked and simply think its a "terrible wine"

meh...

[D'rek]

Uncorking wine isn't that big a drama anyways. Champagne on the other hand, that should always be corked! And then you have to open it with a rapier.

[dktorode]

D, on 03 August 2010 - 01:02 PM, said:

Uncorking wine isn't that big a drama anyways. Champagne on the other hand, that should always be corked! And then you have to open it with a rapier.

actually a screw cap champagne bottle & rapier combo would work too....since you are knocking off the top section of the bottle... glass and all..

[MTS]

Every wine bottle should be opened with a rapier.

[dktorode]

MTS, on 03 August 2010 - 01:18 PM, said:

Every wine bottle should be opened with a rapier.

unfortunately there aint enough pressure in a wine bottle...