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August 15, 2007

A simple question

Why are twist-off beer caps often so hard to twist-off? It doesn't help that the corners of the crimp are sharp and dig into your hands—maybe you could coat them with plastic or something. Listen up, folks: I shouldn't have to wrap the cap in my shirt in order to get it open; and if I have to resort to an opener, like I did with my otherwise quite nice Full Sail LTD we've completely missed the point of the twist-off.

Posted by ekr at August 15, 2007 7:56 PM | Filed under: Food

Comments

Hear, hear! I've been thinking the same thing myself.

Posted by: StormSilver at August 16, 2007 7:00 AM

[[shrug]]
I just keep a topper popper in my backpack, considering it "essential gear".

Posted by: Barry Leiba at August 16, 2007 7:49 AM

(btw, if I use my Berkeley dot edu email addr. it says, "Your comment was denie for questionable content." ... ah, I suppose stanford dot edu would be ok?)

Wuss.

No, seriously... this kind of thing sucks... what sucks more? When a brewer goes from using twist off for many, many years to non-twist-off!!! That really hurts because you're trying your best and then you realize that it's not twist-off anymore... this recently happened with Sierra Nevada.

Posted by: joe at August 16, 2007 8:21 AM

One of my favorite minor party tricks is opening a twist-off by setting the beer on a table, pressing down on the cap with my forearm, and twisting my arm and the beer in opposite directions.



Once (and only once) I made the mistake of believing that I could open a twist-off by holding it in the crook of my elbow. I quickly discovered how wrong I was, but not without acquiring some scrapes.

Posted by: Matt at August 16, 2007 12:12 PM

That same trick can be done with other body parts:

http://13gb.com/videos/2998/

Posted by: Kevin Dick at August 16, 2007 12:20 PM

So, what's wrong with using your shirt every time? That method works much better than judging whether or not you will need your shirt by hurting your hand first.

Posted by: Paul Hoffman at August 20, 2007 10:18 AM

The edges of the cap are sharp and can tear your shirt.

Posted by: EKR at August 20, 2007 11:24 AM