DIY with a Purpose
erco
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Jolly good Friday fun watching this good old boy make bottle openers with blowtorches and power tools from whatever's layin' around the shed. Git 'er done!
Kiddies, these are for opening Pepsi bottles only. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Kiddies, these are for opening Pepsi bottles only. Yeah, that's the ticket!
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I love the sense of frantic desperation the time lapse imparts upon his quest to build a bottle opener.
Time is of the essence. If you take too long making an opener, the beer PEPSI will get warm.
I like seeing this type of thing because it makes me realize how one can use the
same shapes applied in a different manner with different things to get a good end result.
I've opened many a "Pepsi" bottle using alternate methods.
gg
Why would anyone go to so much trouble to open a Budweiser?
-Phil
Destroying a perfect working screw driver is not needed at all, just put your fist around the neck of the bottle and pop off the cap with ANYTHING suitable over your thump.
Screwdriver, spatula, piece of wood, cigarette lighter, whatever.
And on them American bottles you even can unscrew the cap.
So why destroy valuable tools to build a bottle opener? I do not get this.
OK. I am German. I never had problems opening a bottle of beer. Until I moved into the US of A. Now I do not do it because American beer is not made for human consumption. Just not drinkable. Sadly.
Mike
Amen, mein bruder! There's only one thing worse than American beer.
<crickets>
LIGHT American beer. A complete waste.
Gimme a nice German or Austrian Weißbier any day. Pity I can't find Edelweiss in grocery stores anymore. What's the point of living mitout a nice big Hefetrüb?
http://stawskiusa.com/Products/edelweiss-beer-weissbier-hefetrub/
In my long years of detailed research into this topic I have found that "pure" programmers are pretty much powered by beer.
But this is true of engineers in general. As Janes Watt said in a report on his steam engine progress to his investor Matthew Boulton:
"We have a lot of talented engineers in the company but I'm having difficulty finding one that will stay sober long enough to actually build anything"
EKU 28. There is a reason they come in small bottles.
I had Eku Kulminator in München. Tasty and powerful!
The only hazzard with this scheme is that the week following the beer becoming avaiable is a complete loss. Even if you restrict your own consumptions, the rush of visitors sampling your brew will prevent any productive work getting done.
All this talk has made me thirsty. I tracked down Edelweiss near me. Hops to it!
I gave up the idea of brewing beer. Actually managed to make some fine brews but the problem is you suddenly find you have a lot of friends who end up behaving very badly.
And hey... American micro-brewery numbers are in rapid growth. There's no trouble in finding decent brew in the states now days
dgately
Those other drinks, Bud, Fosters, Carlsberg, Heineken etc, are better chilled to remove the taste else they start to taste like wee.
I'm very impressed with the growth of the micro brew industry state side. Never thought I would see that happen. Seems they are seriously getting into tea over there as well recently. What is going on?
I think the US is finally recovering from Prohibition. There use to be many breweries making diverse styles of beer, but most were killed by Prohibition. Many Americans born since Prohibition had never really tasted anything but the "American Industrial" stuff that was passed off as beer. Once they did, they never went back. Another part of it was homebrewing, which was illegal in the US until 1978 when Carter signed a bill that legalized it for home use. Once people started brewing, they quickly figured out that Bud and its ilk were but a sad caricature of what beer should be. Most of the microbrewers started off as homebrewers.
The photochemical reaction that skunks beer occurs very quickly; a well-hopped beer in clear glass can become noticeably offensive with just 30 seconds of exposure to sunshine.
Of course sunlight is not usually a problem back in old Blighty
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/beer-bottle-houses
http://archinect.com/news/article/65009/the-heineken-wobo-world-bottle
Here you go....WOBO
Interesting Heineken container article, though. Thanks for sharing!
At one time all beer was sold in stubby brown glass bottles here (Ontario Canada), and they were an excellent choice for preserving the flavor and quality of the beer. Of course the marketing departments of various brewers got into the act and made the shape and color of the bottles a major selling point. Sadly, the majority of the beer drinkers swallowed this line of Smile hook line, and sinker.
And yes, consuming beer does make one open to suggestions and ideas that a sober mind would easily dismiss. I have spent decades overcoming 'that belief system'. I even suspect that beer ads are a subtle form of mind control.
The only problem with current American micro-brewery scene is that it is 99% about ales.
After 20 years on the west coast, where my alcohol intake has steadily declined to basically zero I finally figured it out earlier this year. Only Lager I could find locally was Dos Equis. Even though its not a premium beer, it helped drive home the reason for my drinking problem.
Now that I'm on the East coast, and can sneak across the Peace Bridge, I can get back to some fine Canadian brews, and recover from this decade long dry spell.