Alternative Bottle Openers... what do you use?

[Sedge]

Lighter, ring, another bottle, a piece of paper folded up several times....sometimes I even buckle down and use a bottle opener.

It's funny that I'll look around for some oddball object for a minute or two before realizing i have a swiss army knife on my keys with an opener..

 

[DRoyLenz]

Everybody's already said it but a lighter (BIC) for sure. I always get the most impressed looks from people when I use another bottle.

 

[DilvishTheDamned]

I've got a ring:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/756e/

This is technically a wine bottle, but cool none the
less.

 

[hip2bsquare]

There must be a dozen spots to open beers inside my Jeep...and that's with the top and doors off... and the bumpers work awesome too. (I never drink and drive, I only found out about this camping)

I'll have to try the wedding ring thing...that sounds useful.

 

[SatelliteGuy]

I usually carry this Leatherman knife in my pocket. Most Leatherman knives have a carabiner-type clip that doubles as a bottle opener.
eta: I think my favorite part, though, is the 25-year warranty.

Recently, when I didn't have that knife, and the friends I was visiting didn't have a bottle opener, one of them showed me how to do it with a spoon.

 

[Photopilot]

A key. I do it carefully prying up the individual ridges around the cap until it comes off, the keys always works afterwards.

I have seen teeth done. I was at a dead show and my buddy bought some beer from some guy that was way over priced. He had no opener so my buddy said "for 4 bucks a beer, why don't you open it with your teeth." The guys said no problem and proceeded to do just that.

Unfortunately the guy had no techniques just started grinding away at the cap with different part of his teeth. We could hear the enamel being ground off as he attempted different angles to get the cap off. Just thinking back on it makes me want to visit the dentist.

 

[Goatey]

Two stories:

(1)
I was staying in a hotel with my girlfriend in Groton, CT and forgot to get a bottle opener. I used a towel rack in the bathroom and on the second try I pulled the rack out of the wall. We drove to a Home Depot and bought a gizmo to fix it. Luckily we were able to fix it and we were never charged by the hotel. It was my first beer too, so I can't even say it was a drunken mistake.

(2)
I live in the New York City area and it's easy to get on the Metro-North train system to get into the city. It's an 80 minute ride from where I live. Luckily they allow drinking on the train so I usually will bring a six pack with me and it's a lot of fun. Half of the time I forget the bottle opener. Most of the time I use my keyring to open the bottles. Most of the time I arrive in the city with a ton of cuts and scratches on my hand because it usually takes 2-3 minutes to open the damn bottles. I need to just get a bottle open to put on my keyring.

 

[wyzazz]

I used to open them with my teeth, always use the molars you're asking for trouble otherwise!

 

[oceanselv]

+1 on the wedding ring. Or a class ring. In strike plate on a door jamb works well. The kitchen counter top, work beach top or anything with a good edge on it.

 

[denimglen]

Bic Lighter if I'm out and about.

A crappy heineken speed opener or one of these if I'm at home

 

[IceFisherChris]

If I am stcuk without a real opener, I usually use my pocket knife. But I have also been known to use a cell phone (not my nice one...) or the edge of a desk.

 

[Photopilot]

Told the wife about the wedding ring opener trick. She said "You are lucky, my ring is too thin to open the ring." I thought she would be shocked or offended but she said no its great you can use it for something functional.

I am the one with the problem with this technique as a newly wed I am still getting used to this thing, it really weighs down my left hand. I am also afraid of scratching it.

 

[SugarJohnson]

When I'm in the garage it's a channel lock or robo grip every time.

 

[mordantly]

lemme see:

bic lighter
box wrench
spoon
can opener
church key
striker plate
screw driver
pocket knife
isuzu ignition key
butter knife
shotgun shell
30-06 or larger caliber cartridge
basically anything strong and 2"+

once you realize the leverage, on the ground in the woods you will find a branch of sufficient girth.

 

[Apollofrost]

Sister's cat

 

[ronaldo_fanbelt]

Thanks for all of the great ideas.

 

[psychedelic_brew]

if i can't find my keys (w/ attached bottle opener) in like 10 seconds of wanting to crack a brew, i usually use the edge of my counter top and smack that puppy

 

[mordantly]

i have the bottle end of one of these, house key, and each vehicle and motorcycle.

 

[CDbrews]

There are so many possibilities... any thing that can get leverage under the cap works...i cant even think of all the things that Ive used after having a couple

 

[Want2Brew]

Some drawer pulls work great like an old time mounted bottle opener.

Also the the non moving part of a lock hasp,

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

my truck has a built in bottle opener (and I bet many of your vehicles have the same one).

I can't recall for sure, but I seem to remember my dad having an old Buick when I was a kid that had a bottle opener on the dash within reach of the driver. Dad only opened pop bottles with it, but I half think it was for opening beer bottles on the road.

 

[ecojack]

best bottle opener...ever.

 

[mmb]

best bottle opener...ever.

At least it's good for something, eh?


I've had a churchkey on my key chain since joining the co-ed softball league during college.

 

[Redstar]

Weber BBQ handle.

 

[craven_morhead]

I was setting routes at a climbing wall once late at night before a competition. The wall's owner took all of us over to the rack of climbing gear for sale behind the counter, and told us that anything that we couldn't open a beer with, he was going to stop selling. Fun times.

 

[joeybeer]

a sailboat winch handle, c/o a guest skipper.. i open 'em like that every time I'm on the boat now..

 

[sithspitt]

I used a #2 pencil once and didn't break it

 

[TheBeerNerd]

I was setting routes at a climbing wall once late at night before a competition. The wall's owner took all of us over to the rack of climbing gear for sale behind the counter, and told us that anything that we couldn't open a beer with, he was going to stop selling. Fun times.

This is the best piece of gear that Black Diamond makes!
Always have it with me

 

[RushN24]

I have used a carabiner before, I usually have my keys on one and it actually works pretty well.

I knew this Russian guy (Boris of course) who would open beer bottles with his eye socket, pretty neat party trick lol.

 

[Disi]

I keep a 12" crowbar on my desk at the office. It has only two purposes; open my bottles of beer, and the occasional shake at the people wandering into my office, asking me to fix their computers. I'm the calm and quiet IT guy.