How are you all opening those bottles? :)

[Doug Add]

Well, I know it is not very "traditional knife-esque", but this opener is screwed into the side of the island in our kitchen. It was busy Christmas Eve.

When I'm sitting on the screened porch cooling off after yard work I sometimes press the Fieldmaster into service if I am too lazy to walk into the kitchen.

 

[wouldestous]

... a (Bic) lighter for opening my beer ...

this. use the base of the lighter as a lever and your knuckle as a fulcrum. works great!

 

[oxbld]

The 2011 forum knife did the bottle and present openning for me.

 

[DeadFall27]

Humpa & Wouldestous know how to do it right, hehe.


On an unrelated note, Oxbld, your avatar is awesome, btw...

 

[eisman]

Braurei Heller - Bamberg, man that brings back a few memories.

No beer in the house. Drinking a nice Napa Valley Cabernet. Use a Gerber tool to open it; one of the very few multi-tools I've got any use for.

 

[Jack Black]

Braurei Heller - Bamberg, man that brings back a few memories.

No beer in the house. Drinking a nice Napa Valley Cabernet. Use a Gerber tool to open it; one of the very few multi-tools I've got any use for.

Not on the eisbock then?

 

[mnblade]

Actually, my favorite beer this time of year -- Sváteční Ležák (or holiday brew) from Bernard, a small brewery in the Czech town of Humpolec -- doesn't need an opener. It's got one of those ceramic tops on a ligature, like Grolsch.

-- Mark

 

[neeman]

A few pics I took while imbibing on Christmas Eve? How are you opening yours?

Oh my!
Nice!

I have one like that with a WD stamp from 59, and it looks that old too

 

[scruffuk]

Well I've had to rely on the humble bottle opener/corkscrew my girlfriends ma has....maybe I should brought my Michael Morris along :-/

Here are four of the eight homebrews I brought to help me get through it

We had 188 (pint) bottles and a 5 pint keg when we totted em all up.

 

[Jack Black]

Oh my!
Nice!

I have one like that with a WD stamp from 59, and it looks that old too

Thanks This one is actually Belgian, I bought three of them just the other week (did a thread about them), they must have been in storage. I'd also thought they were British as they're the same pattern. I'm afraid I lost my old WW2 model years ago, but still see them around from time to time, they're built like tanks! :thumbup:

We had 188 (pint) bottles and a 5 pint keg when we totted em all up.

And you didn't take your Michael Morris?!

Sounds like you had a good Christmas mate :thumbup:

 

[mnblade]

I, nor anyone in the family, popped a single beer. There was a case of wine, whiskey, rum, and brandy consumed. My son used his SAK corkscrew, and my sister in law used a fancy high tech corkscrew, while my son in law and I just twisted off the cap on a large gallon jug of Even Williams. Daughter Jessica and wife Karen severely damaged a bottle of Captain Morgans. Some Vodka got killed in action the next morning with a pitcher of Bloody Mary's.

Carl.

That sounds like a good party! As if we didn't all already want to spend some time at Casa jackknife!

-- Mark

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Jack, what is the scout/camp knife in your next to last pic?

I have twist off caps on my Angry Orchard crisp apple bottles.

It was a twist off Evan Williams bottle of apple jack that was consumed Christmas Eve (my sisters and I ).

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, what is the scout/camp knife in your next to last pic?

It's a Rough Rider, their 'Camp' model. There are more pics in the 'Rough Riders...' thread

 

[jujigatame]

No pictures unfortunately but on Christmas I popped open the following with my alox Cadet.

~ Narragansett Imperial IPA
~ Alesmith IPA
~ Berkshire Holidale

Shared and enjoyed with family on a nice Christmas. :thumbup:

 

[Robert.B]

 

[MT Damascus]

Action shot from the other night, the steaks were absolutely tasty

 

[Faiaoga]

When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa and imbibing a lot of Steinlager and Vailima beers, I saw many different methods used. My pocket usually had a US military style pocket knife with a bottle cap lifter, otherwise I would use a pocket screwdriver or the edge of a P-38 pocket can opener.

My Samoan mates never had pocket knives, and their 18 inch bush knives were a bit clumsy for opening bottles, so they had to be creative. The edge of a wooden table top was often used, or the bottle cap of one bottle would be used to pry off the cap of a sealed bottle. In a pinch, many Samoan men would simply use their strong white teeth. For some reason, I was never thirsty enough to try that myself!

Ia manuia le Kerisimas i ma le Tausaga Fou. (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year) Faiaoga

 

[apintandafight]

With the juice

Or the carabiner

 

[Vanguard41xx]

 

[Humppa]

Today definitelly with a Friedrich Hartkopf ebony Scout knife

на здоровье!