Comments on: Bottle-Cap Blues: HOWTO open a beer with pretty much anything

By: Alex Stapleton

Alex Stapleton — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:10:00 +0000

Not as good as opening a bottle of wine with a shoe, or a towel.

By: Bookburn

Bookburn — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:55:00 +0000

Anyone else use their teeth? It always seems to freak out whomever I’m drinking with, but I’ve never had a problem just biting, bending, and pulling the cap off.

I was surprised that these guys weren’t Australian.

By: Shawn Wallace

Shawn Wallace — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:39:00 +0000

Has anyone been able to crack a beer with an Arduino? I haven’t been able to…

By: westnerd

westnerd — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:08:00 +0000

That looks like a potato gun to me, not a bong.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Use the bottle opener.

By: travtastic

travtastic — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:04:00 +0000

But how do you open the last beer?

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:06:00 +0000

I also subscribe to the house key method.

By: Bear Naff

Bear Naff — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:33:00 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Austin, Texas.

By: atarifan2600

atarifan2600 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:11:00 +0000

It looked like a perfectly enjoyable way to spend a wonderful summer afternoon, and consequences-be-damned with the spillage. It wasn’t about the quality of the beverage- it was all about the “hold my beer and watch THIS”.

The ideas started to get better later in the afternoon, I could tell.

By: chf64

chf64 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Coming up right after the snake-handler in the post above.

By: chf64

chf64 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:36:00 +0000

They did and they still managed to waste some beer in the process.

By: chf64

chf64 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:34:00 +0000

that video was about 90% ways not to open a bottle of beer and about 5% ways to open a beer you can never drink (broken bottle) and about 5% ways to successfully open a beer without a bottle opener.

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:18:00 +0000

i’m not sure i approve of opening a beer off your bong. i mean, what if you knock it out of commission? beer crime AND weed crime.

By: Daniel Belous

Daniel Belous — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:02:00 +0000

They did use a bottle to open another one at 1:15.

By: mcducky

mcducky — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:56:00 +0000

I predict some of these guys have a Darwin Award in their future….

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:31:00 +0000

yup, i’ve seen that a number of times as well.

typical technique at an Ontario “field party” or “bush party.”

our youth and young adults have a rich history of partying in whatever chunk of outdoor space they can find. as long as it is away from prying eyes — and the cops.

oh the brain cells i wasted in ravines…

By: Jason Sutor

Jason Sutor — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:17:00 +0000

These type of videos are what lead me to attempting to copy opening a wine bottle by cushioning it with my jacket and repeatedly ‘tapping’ the bottom against the wall to pop out the cork. Didn’t work. Actually it did work, the cork came out when the bottle shattered giving me minor cuts, cutting holes in my jacket and getting wine everywhere.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:16:00 +0000

They don’t have summer where you live, do they.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:15:00 +0000

When I was a wee lad visiting Mexico 40 years ago, I was intrigued by the bottles of Carta Blanca or some-such beer that had bottle-cap-shaped indentations molded into their bottoms, to help you twist off the cap of another bottle in the six-pack.

But I use my house key to pry up the edge of the cap, one bump at a time, until it comes off easily. It takes about 15 seconds. These blokes apparently didn’t have 15 seconds to waste, but they had a LOT of beer to waste.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:10:00 +0000

I might have missed it, but they didn’t show the ‘use another bottle to open your bottle’ method – a method used in almost all Northern countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrKTKQVsib4

By: Teller

Teller — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:06:00 +0000

skep: Agree about the Bic, but there was a bong, so maybe the Bic was a given.

By: Samuel Valentine

Samuel Valentine — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:04:00 +0000

I was always jealous of my Dutch pals who could open two bottles of beer off one another simultaneously.

By: eraserhead666

eraserhead666 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:36:00 +0000

Well, some of it was Corona, so it may not qualify as beer.

By: noahd

noahd — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:32:00 +0000

They missed one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkHsAULzwQ

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:17:00 +0000

Besides, every Canadian knows that the accepted method for opening a bottle without an opener is the Bic lighter.

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Cory, as a good Canuck, you know the seriousness of a “beer crime.”

It is a travesty that so much sudsy goodness had to be wasted in the making of this video.

I, for one, am shocked and appalled that this kind of beer wastage is not only allowed, but promoted by the otherwise responsible editorial staff of BoingBoing.