Beer bottles

[brew]

Sounds Stupid, but why in the USA do they have beer bottles with the screw tops on them so the bottle tops can be removed with your hand. Where as in the UK it is the bottle opener tops.

Does anyone know why this is?

[footie chick]

The only ones I've seen are Miller it is so handy without an opener

[Jeemag_USA]

Yes there is very few beers over here that don't have screw tops, I know Rolling Rock is one of them that requires a bottle openener and also Samuel Adams beers don't have screw caps. Also some of the more select beers made by state breweries use old style bottle caps. I am not sure if its because they have a tighter seal and keep in the freshness longer or not. But there has to be something in the fact more expensive select beers have non screw caps and cheaper beers have screw caps. Needs some investigation?

[footie chick]

Needs some investigation?


I'll put my name down for a taste test :lol:

[Jeemag_USA]

If you are buying bottles of beer, here is the easy way to tell what is screw top and what is not, the one on the left is not screw top, the top of the neck is fluted, the one on the right is screw top and has a distinctive ring around it. Two very good beers if you can find them in the UK, Samuel Adams Summer Ale is a wheat beer and Leinenkugels Red is a red ale, simlar to a pale ale. My favorite subject :Razz

http://midnightmoses.com/bottles.gif

[Jeemag_USA]

Q: Why don’t more beer bottles have twist-off caps?


A: Most mass-market beers—like those made by Anheuser-Busch (http://www.anheuser-busch.com/), Coors (http://www.coors.com/), and Miller (http://www.millerbrewing.com/)—have twist-off caps you can open with your hands, but craft brews tend to have pry-offs that require a bottle opener. Pry-off capping equipment is slightly less expensive than twist-off equipment, which is a factor for some small breweries. But many craft brewers choose pry-off caps not for the savings but because they believe those caps provide a better seal against oxygen.
“Oxygen is one of beer’s greatest enemies; it causes beer to become stale,” says Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery (http://www.brooklynbrewery.com/), which uses pry-offs.
It’s difficult to say, however, how much of a safeguard pry-off caps provide. Steve Harrison, vice president of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (http://www.sierranevada.com/), says that his R&D department has studied the oxygen barriers on twist-off and pry-off caps for 12 years. In those tests, they found a slight difference, but not enough to have a significant effect on the beer. (Sierra did, however, recently switch from twist-offs to pry-offs. The reason was that the brewery began using a new bottle-cap lining material that provides a much better oxygen barrier but is too stiff to work with twist-offs.)
Maybe people just think pry-offs are more legit. The Brewers Association (http://www.beertown.org/), a trade organization for craft brewers, estimates that 80 to 85 percent of its members use pry-off caps on their beer bottles. This reinforces the idea among craft-beer drinkers that only good beers use pry-offs. Admits Oliver, “Twist-offs have a cheaper image.”

Taken from: http://www.chow.com/stories/10595

[brew]

Well think about thiss.

Get a cold beer out of the fridge and just twisting off the top. Put it in the bin. Sit down and enjoy the beer

Job done

OR

Get a cold beer out of the fridge. go in to a kitchen drawer and look with one hand for the bottle opener. Setting down the beer and looking in the same drawer with both hands. Move beer out of the way and pull everything out of the drawer. Look in the utensil holder on the work top. Pull everything out of the utensil holder and dump onto the pile from the drawer. Find a bottle opener in the very bottom of the holder and open the beer, Put the top in the bin.

Sit down and enjoy the beer
Job done.

Or so you though, You now have to get up again cause your girlfriend has walked into the kitchen and see the worktop has vanished under everything, Set your beer down again and get shouted at for not just asking where the bottle opener was. Put everything back and go and finish beer

[Jeemag_USA]

Well think about thiss.

Get a cold beer out of the fridge and just twisting off the top. Put it in the bin. Sit down and enjoy the beer

Job done

OR

Get a cold beer out of the fridge. go in to a kitchen drawer and look with one hand for the bottle opener. Setting down the beer and looking in the same drawer with both hands. Move beer out of the way and pull everything out of the drawer. Look in the utensil holder on the work top. Pull everything out of the utensil holder and dump onto the pile from the drawer. Find a bottle opener in the very bottom of the holder and open the beer, Put the top in the bin.

Sit down and enjoy the beer
Job done.

Or so you though, You now have to get up again cause your girlfriend has walked into the kitchen and see the worktop has vanished under everything, Set your beer down again and get shouted at for not just asking where the bottle opener was. Put everything back and go and finish beer

Thats a good point for the fair weather beer drinker, I though am a bit of an addict, I have a credit card bottle opener in my wallet and one on my car keys so I don't need to look far for one, be prepared :Razz

[golach]

Any decent real ale drinker has a bottle spanner on his bunch of keys, ready at all times [lol]
Oh for the days of Whitbreads Screw Tops :lol:

[Victoria]

I used to be able to open em with my teeth! Not very lady-like I know!!

[MadPict]

I get the butler to open my beer....


I used to be able to open em with my teeth! Not very lady-like I know!!

Even the twist off ones?........:lol:

[horseman]

I'll put my name down for a taste test :lol:

Snap to that one;)

[Mister Squiggle]

I have seen various methods used to remove beer bottle tops including (a) a metal egg slice (which is a quick sword-like slice up the neck of the bottle that sends the top spinning over the other side of the room), (b) the door jamb (a useful emergency tactic and one that can often be relied upon regardless of venue, unless you are outdoors of course), and (c) the eye socket (only done by a reckless friend whose other party trick was to head-butt frying pans and invert them, much to the amazement of all).
Ahh, happy days.

[brew]

the eye socket





WHAT!!!! How was that possible?

[Jeemag_USA]

WHAT!!!! How was that possible?

I was wondering that too. I used to have a buddy who would open cans of beer in the middle with his teeth and then suck it down really fast, he was usually passed out a half hour into a party and then would wake up when everyone else fell asleep and try to start the party again, he would only last half an hour again though after showing the last perosn awake how he could bite into a can of Tennents and suck it down in seconds [lol]

[Mister Squiggle]

With the eye socket maneouvre, he had to squint, wedge the bottle in and flip the bottle... oh heck, look it was probably very painful and dangerous and not to be tried at home. I don't think he had the same kind of pain threshold or skull density as other mere mortals and he was probably well on the way each time he did it. :eek: