# Beer bottle with built-in opener? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [April 27, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556 "2010-04-27T20:18:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/1 "2010-04-27T20:18:12Z")
Once upon a time we used to drink a brand of beer that had a bottle opener built in to the bottom of every bottle. This would have been central NYS, in the early 90s, in case that helps. Anyone know what kind of beer that was? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/2 "2010-04-27T20:21:46Z")
I’ll have to research that one a bit, but I know **Tres Equis** beer in Mexico has the bottle opener feature. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/3 "2010-04-27T20:50:01Z")
So, just so I’m clear on this: If you only have one bottle, you’re still out of luck, but if you and your buddy each have one, you can open them on each other? ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/4 "2010-04-27T21:04:25Z")
**Carta Blanca** bottles used to have a bottle-cap-sized indentation in the bottom of their bottles that was used to open another bottle – I don’t know if they still do. ETA: Apparently, \*\*Erdinger Champ \*\*has the feature as well. It’s a weissbier. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/5 "2010-04-28T05:30:59Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > Once upon a time we used to drink a brand of beer that had a bottle opener built in to the bottom of every bottle. > > This would have been central NYS, in the early 90s, in case that helps. > > Anyone know what kind of beer that was? I think miller lite had that indented thing on the bottom. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/6 "2010-04-28T06:03:39Z")
\I’m itching to get a pair of [Reef bottle opener sandals](http://www.reef-sandals-online.com/reef-fanning.htm)\ ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/7 "2010-04-28T06:18:59Z")
Seems to me that would be MGD, but seriously, if I ever needed an opener, I’d just use the bottom edge of my Bic lighter. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/8 "2010-04-28T06:22:22Z")
You mean you pansies can’t open a bottle of beer with your teeth? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/9 "2010-04-28T07:38:02Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > You mean you pansies can’t open a bottle of beer with your teeth? Whaf teef? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/10 "2010-04-28T13:40:45Z")
Wasn’t it Knickerbocker? (Anyone else remember drinking them at the Bow and Arrow in Cambridge?) As I recall, it wasn’t a real bottle opener for crimp-on caps, but a recess in the bottom of the bottle that would grab the screw-off cap. So nothing your shirt-tail or sweatshirt sleeve couldn’t do. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/11 "2010-04-28T13:59:56Z")
[hijack] How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? [/hijack] I’m at work, so only 3: one on my keyring, one in my Leatherman microtool, and one built into my belt buckle. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/12 "2010-04-28T14:25:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [hijack] How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? [/hijack] I have a round one on my keyring and have used my wedding band in a pinch (but that hurts). I need to look into getting a belt buckle version - my “Home of the Whopper” belt buckle seems played out. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/13 "2010-04-28T14:26:59Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > You mean you pansies can’t open a bottle of beer with your teeth? In college I knew a guy who could open beer bottles with his eye socket. That was something to behold. > [@silenus](#): > > [hijack] How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? [/hijack] > > I’m at work, so only 3: one on my keyring, one in my Leatherman microtool, and one built into my belt buckle. 2 - keychain & multitool. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/14 "2010-04-28T14:32:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [hijack] How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? [/hijack] Just 1, my precious AC/DC bottle opener keychain from the Bonfire boxset. ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/15 "2010-04-28T15:29:14Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > In college I knew a guy who could open beer bottles with his eye socket. That was something to behold. Kinda gives new meaning to the term “blind drunk.” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/16 "2010-04-28T15:30:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [hijack] How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? [/hijack] > > I’m at work, so only 3: one on my keyring, one in my Leatherman microtool, and one built into my belt buckle. I use a lighter. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Elk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Anne\_Elk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Elk)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/17 "2010-04-28T15:43:40Z")
Real men open their beer on the light bars of occupied police vehicles.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/18 "2010-04-28T15:55:38Z")
[Relevant product](http://www.myclicker.com/). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/19 "2010-04-28T16:00:35Z")
I don’t recall any beer bottles like the one in the OP, but when I need to pop a cap, I find an edge of a hard surface (that doest mind some damage) hook the cap on the edge, then just give the top a slam with my palm. Isn’t that what everyone does? ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/20 "2010-04-28T18:48:19Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Wasn’t it Knickerbocker? (Anyone else remember drinking them at the Bow and Arrow in Cambridge?) > > As I recall, it wasn’t a real bottle opener for crimp-on caps, but a recess in the bottom of the bottle that would grab the screw-off cap. So nothing your shirt-tail or sweatshirt sleeve couldn’t do. Knickerbocker isn’t ringing any bells as the beer I am talking about with the built-in opener, but I did drink my share of Knickerbockers at the Bow & Arrow. I’ll look for some photos to see if Knickerbocker is the answer. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556.md?page=2)