Hi beer fans! It's Friday again! Come in and join us for a cold one!
Before you can drink the beer, you must open the beer.
I've blogged here about diverse and dangerous methods including a helicopter, a chain saw, and a mechanism for opening an entire case of beer in one move. This week we'll look at simple hand tools for popping your top.
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This is the classic bottle opener I grew up with. Even non-drinking families needed them since soft drinks as well as beer came in glass bottles with crown caps. They were hardly ever plain like this; almost always they'd be stamped with the logo of a brewer or a beverage distributor or a store. |
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A prettier version of the same tool. Does any beverage still come in steel cans that you have to puncture? |
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And a common modern version of #1, the give-away screened with your company name. Someone with one of these on their keychain probably drinks even more beer than I do. |
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If you order a bottle of beer at a bar there's a fair chance this is what the bartender will open it with. |
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These are the three most common kinds of wine openers, and any of them will also open your beer. |
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So will this can opener |
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and so will these other kitchen utensils. |
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Here are a couple of brewery give-aways other than the ultracheap aluminum extrusion |
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souvenir of someplace |
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This is my favorite. It has a solid, comfortable feel in my hand that I find very satisfying, and it's half a pound of brass that, if I needed to, I could damage someone with. |
See hundreds more decorative and entertaining bottle openers
here (where I found several of the above pictures).
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I'll be at the homebrew club meeting, I'll look at comments when I get home. What are you drinking? Who's brewing?