I always figured the twist offs didn’t seal as well.
And furthermore, they are very hard for most people (women, in my experience) to actually twist off. My wife uses a bottle opener on twist off caps for this reason. So, no real benefit.
Finally, if you’re drinking out of the bottle, the smooth lip feels much nicer than the rough threads of a twist off lip.
The smooth lip may not be so smooth if you were rough or careless with the church key. Nothing says “good beer” like a trickle of blood from your cut lip. :mad:
ETA: Of course, you can do the same thing to the lip of a twist-off by carelessness, so it’s not uniquely a pry-off issue.
So why do cheap beers have twist-offs?
In France the other week I bought a crate of 10 stubby lagers for €3.30 (about $4.40), and they had twist-off caps.
If a 44-cent bottle of beer can have a twist-off cap, then they can’t be that expensive!
I think beer manufacturers are subsidised by dentists to keep on putting pry-off caps on bottles 
Invest in some quality glassware.
Because cheap beer is most often the piss made by macro breweries like Coors and Bud that can afford the equipment.
I’m kind of curious about the wedding. I’ve never been to a wedding where you just help yourself to a beer out of a fridge.
use one bottle to open the other.
Maybe not your penis, but mine is hard enough to cut diamonds.
bless it’s pointy little head.
29 posts on the merits of pry-off or twist-off bottle caps for beer.
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Bottling twist-offs requires expensive high precision industrial equipment that probably has some maintenance needs. Bottling pop-offs requires an investment starting at $20.
I used to bottle beer at a micro-brewery. I was told we used pry-offs for two reasons. The first reason is that the mechanism that capped the bottles would not work on screw top bottles. The machine was basically a press, operated by me, that manually pushed the tops on four bottles at once. Low tech.
The second reason they told me is that since the beer continued to carbonate itself slightly in the bottle, a firm seal was crucial. They said twist-offs did not seal as well.
TBH I can’t see how a properly sealed twist off could be less well sealed than a pry-off. I think the first was the real reason, and the second thing I was told was a matter of pride to the brewery. I think they wanted a better reason than “we can’t afford it” to why they use pry-offs.
Not at all – at least 17 of them, including mine, were completely OT! 