Second Riddle of the Hest: the Bottle Opener

[Dibley]

The bottle opener could be used to hold your shaving mirror - if you're not shaving with your HEST.

 

[Nemo]

OK, I"m amazed about the fact a bottle opener can be used to open a bottle ! Really !
I'm glad to have so many good advices about using the bottle opener to open beer bottles. Thanks ! And I'm glad you are all very happy to have a bottle opener on the HEST (to use it on any glass container containing any kind of fluids, canadian or belge....)

Can we go to Plan B now ? This topic is about using the bottle opener for something else than opening a bottle which is obviously the first use you'll do with the bottle opener of the HEST if you live in a brewing country and there are a lot !

OK, so far:
-it can be used as a wrench. Who has ever try that ?
-it be used to lash the knife to a pole and make a spear. Any picture ? With or without the micarta slabs on ?
-it can be used to turn the hest into some kind of axe. Any picture of that ?

RYP proposed somewhere to jerk and break a car glass in the jaws of the opener.
Someone ever tried ? It's true, you can stuck something in it and turn. Any applications which come to mind ?

 

[Nemo]

The bottle opener could be used to hold your shaving mirror - if you're not shaving with your HEST.

LOL !!! Because your shaving mirror is hot, toxic, poisonous....??? :thumbdn:
:yawn:

 

[razorback1595]

I knew my good belgium friends would love that bottle opener duddah and even carve a second one in wood ! ;-)
Podferdum ! Best beers in the world are brewed in Belgium.

forgot the chocolate
but that's were the awesomeness ends for belgium, except for me that is
:jerkit:
i do need to pick up a hest, been carrying my RC-3 over my izula and i need something in between

 

[razorback1595]

I have as the matter of fact. And I would take many Canadian microbrewed beers over any of Belgian any day .

No offence intended, but we just have better beers here.

Edited: football is very different story...

And wich beers have you drunk from belgium??

 

[Nemo]

forgot the chocolate
but that's were the awesomeness ends for belgium, except for me that is
:jerkit:
i do need to pick up a hest, been carrying my RC-3 over my izula and i need something in between

I got an Izula and a RC-3. The HEST fills the "gap" with an attitude.
Great grip and thick sharp blade.

Perharps you will find another use for that notch in the backblade that some people use for opening a bottle...

 

[Dibley]

LOL !!! Because your shaving mirror is hot, toxic, poisonous....??? :thumbdn:
:yawn:

Nah. With the knife insterted into a tree branch or tree trunk, it allows you to caress your face with one hand, and shave with the other. Also, you could use the mirror as a periscope to search for snipers without exposing your head to enemy fire. A careful user might be able to pry nails out with it.

Alternatively, the built-in notch could open beer bottles. Apparently not French beer, based on the criticisms found in this thread.

 

[Dibley]

forgot the chocolate
but that's were the awesomeness ends for belgium, except for me that is
:jerkit:
i do need to pick up a hest, been carrying my RC-3 over my izula and i need something in between

What about pommes frites? Belgians do that well. And mussels in Brussels are good (although "The Muscles from Brussels" - Jean-Claude Van Damme - is perhaps less good). There's nothing wrong with Belgian cuisine. Many of the flavors of French cooking, with the quantities of German food. It's a great place to drink and eat.

 

[Nemo]

Nah. With the knife insterted into a tree branch or tree trunk, it allows you to caress your face with one hand, and shave with the other. Also, you could use the mirror as a periscope to search for snipers without exposing your head to enemy fire. A careful user might be able to pry nails out with it.

Periscope for snipers? Yes... You live in a dangerous neighbourhood... You need to show us the careful prying nail things technic also !!

Alternatively, the built-in notch could open beer bottles. Apparently not French beer, based on the criticisms found in this thread.

Where did you get that scoop? We only talk about belgium and canadium beers in this thread.

 

[Dibley]

Where did you get that scoop, Pulitzer ?

No, really. It sounds crazy, but it just might work!

 

[Nemo]

The scoop was about the french beer...

What sounds crazy and might just work ? Pomme frites or nails ?

 

[CNphoto]

the HEST was designed for travelers and the bottle opener is pretty sweet to have on hand.

when you are standing around with a bunch of africans drinking fanta, they would be especially stoked to have you pull a knife that opens their bottles instead of them having to use their teeth. even though they use their teeth all the time, they would still get a kick out of the knife and you might get some laughs from it. the bottle is good for making friends. same reason i carry cigarettes overseas even though i don't smoke.

 

[Nemo]

the HEST was designed for travelers and the bottle opener is pretty sweet to have on hand.

when you are standing around with a bunch of africans drinking fanta, they would be especially stoked to have you pull a knife that opens their bottles instead of them having to use their teeth. even though they use their teeth all the time, they would still get a kick out of the knife and you might get some laughs from it. the bottle is good for making friends. same reason i carry cigarettes overseas even though i don't smoke.

I'm agree with you. This bottle opener is a friendship catalyst !
You'll be the last to be shot...

But now what other use we could have of that ?

 

[RYP]

No mystery. I wanted two notches below the base of the knife blade for lashing. On the bottom you have a combinations choil that has been modified to be a wire breaker. On the top you have a quarter inch pry which doubles as a perfect thumb rest. I use the prybar at the back to flip open beer tops but you are free to open, or not open, beer bottles with the "opener" feature

 

[Nemo]

No mystery. I wanted two notches below the base of the knife blade for lashing. On the bottom you have a combinations choil that has been modified to be a wire breaker. On the top you have a quarter inch pry which doubles as a perfect thumb rest. I use the prybar at the back to flip open beer tops but you are free to open, or not open, beer bottles with the "opener" feature

Thank you for the provided details. There is in fact 2 bottle openers and two prying systems: a male (the pry bar) and the female (the pry notch also known as "bottle opener")
There is a bottle opener (small pry tab) on the top of the H E S T. The 3/16” thick top area ahead of the bottle opener/pry tab allows you to hammer the blade through thick wood, creating a durable axe type tool.
:thumbup:
By using the pry bar to open bottles, you can keep the knife sheated also

Any thoughts about canadian microbrewing versus belgium ?

 

[YoungGrunt]

California micro-brew is by far better, Hands down sorry Canada and Belgium. Come Down to Cali and I'll pour you a nice home-brewed I.P.A.

 

[stokka]

And wich beers have you drunk from belgium??

I honestly do not remember - it was in early 90-s

Razor, as I said - no offense was intended. Here what I will do - I will go out and if I can find any Belgian beer in our local store, then I buy it and have it to Belgian Brewers. Do not have a HEST to open it though...

 

[1066vik]

that notch could be used to hook the bail on a kettle to lift it on/off a cooking fire.
it can also be used to hook the top wire when crossing a barbed wire fence.
could also be used to help skin branchlets off of thin branches to make a simple fishing pole or for taking the outer insulation off of romex cable.

 

[Nemo]

that notch could be used to hook the bail on a kettle to lift it on/off a cooking fire.
it can also be used to hook the top wire when crossing a barbed wire fence.
could also be used to help skin branchlets off of thin branches to make a simple fishing pole or for taking the outer insulation off of romex cable.

Way to go 1066vik ! :thumbup:

 

[Raymond1000]

Beer is not exactly a rocket science. If you draw a taste diagram of a beer you will have three main axis - yest, barley and hops. The more "mainstream" beer, the more rounded the taste diagram is (so many people sort of "not dislike it"). Big manufacturers can not afford to have a lot of taste in their product or they will go out of business.

Microbrewers, however occupying much smaller niche have "spikes" in the taste of their beers. The more selection you have the more chances for you to find something you will "love". That is comparing to a mainstream bear which is "ok, I guess".

Also of course you can add crap to your beers - like honey or syrup, you can ferment it on the top of a tank or at the bottom of it. Some even do fermentation right in a bottle (French famous for that, we have those in Quebec). You can do wheat beer (I think Germans came up with that, but not sure) and so on. But the basics are the same..

So huge selection of beers in Belgium really just gives you an opportunity to find your beer. It does not mean that you can not find it anywhere else for that matter - in France or in Canada. The key word here is not the name of the country, but rather "micro-brewery".

Do you mean Kräusening? That's just for carbonating beer at the end. Or are you talking about some other process? Sounds interesting if so.