# 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:** 2
**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, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/21 "2010-04-28T18:53:38Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > [Relevant product](http://www.myclicker.com/). Sweet! Thanks for all the suggestions so far. It was definitely not Tres Equis, Miller Lite, MGD, Carta Blanca or Erdinger Champ. I vaguely remember it being a green bottle, though I may just be confusing it with Mickey’s Wide Mouth, which we also drank a lot of. Those rebus puzzles got harder withe very bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/22 "2010-04-28T18:58:06Z")
Vells, you guys certainlys hasn’t beens to Scandinavias. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zG4ztixR2KM/hqdefault.jpg "Make: How to open a bottle of beer the Scandinavian way") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG4ztixR2KM) All you need is another normal beer bottle. I don’t drink, but I have opened my wife’s booze this way. ---
**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 28, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/23 "2010-04-28T19:16:53Z")
> [@](#): > > [hijack] How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? [/hijack] Two, and I don’t even drink: One on my Swiss Army knife, and one on my multitool. It makes me pretty popular, in a way, at parties. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/24 "2010-04-29T04:44:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How many designed-as-such bottle openers do you have on your person right now? I have three… From _Signs of Significance: Warning Signs for Today’s Teens and the Parents Who Care For Them :_ > [@](#): > > Warning sign #5: Do you have more than two designed-as-such bottle openers on your person right now? ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/25 "2010-05-01T00:59:08Z")
Puzzling. I’m afraid I’m no help but I remember this type of thing first person as well from the distant past but can’t begin to recall what brand it was. None of the a fore mentioned. **Stroh’s Fire Brewed** was the first thing that popped in my head (yes, a distant memory) but I can’t really remember. Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/26 "2010-05-01T01:14:47Z")
Pry it off with a house key. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/27 "2010-05-01T20:54:50Z")
Ever since I quit smoking and don’t carry a lighter anymore, and the beer-opener my high school gave me with their name printed on it that I carry on my keychain started to feel flimsy\*, I’ve realized I can open a beer with pretty much any rigid instrument. \*I’m afraid it’s going to break, and having a bottle-opener with your high school’s name on it is cooler to me than using it, so I’ve retired it from active use. ---
**Author:** ![Cation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Cation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cation)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/28 "2010-05-01T22:03:55Z")
Was it [Grolsch](http://www.google.com/images?q=grolsch+beugel&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=yaTcS8fJM4iI8wTKkOysBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQsAQwAA)? ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/29 "2010-05-01T22:16:54Z")
I have one on me- my multi-tool, which is my keychain. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/30 "2010-05-01T22:18:38Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > \I’m itching to get a pair of [Reef bottle opener sandals](http://www.reef-sandals-online.com/reef-fanning.htm)\ I was buying a pair of sandals last summer and I had to ask the guy at the counter “what’s this metal thing for?” ---
**Author:** ![Canby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Canby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canby)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/31 "2010-05-02T03:53:31Z")
Was it Glacier Bay? All I can find on it are a few posts like [this one](http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/1338872) asking “whatever happened to it?” I vaguely recall it might have been called Arctic Bay for a while too. And of course, it was super cheap. Same time frame, early 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/32 "2010-05-02T04:10:29Z")
My father-in-law taught me how to open a beer with a dollar bill. That removes the need for any of your fancy devices. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/33 "2010-05-02T04:29:47Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > Just 1, my precious AC/DC bottle opener keychain from the Bonfire boxset. Ha! I used to have one of those… but now I don’t know where it is… but it was my precious! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/34 "2010-05-02T16:08:48Z")
Well, I don’t have any “on my person” as I’m just kicking around the house wearing a plain cotton house-dress with no pockets. However, there is a bottle-opener built in to the handle of my cork-screw, plus a Swiss army knife, and I could put my hands on either of them in a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/35 "2010-05-02T17:04:11Z")
Same here (except the wearing a dress bit). Without getting up, I can put my hands on three corkscrews, a multi tool and a swiss army knife. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/36 "2010-05-02T18:32:53Z")
> [@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? Grolsch? Bottles of that stuff used to have a lever attachment to open it. It was on the neck rather than bottom of the bottle though. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_Full\_of\_Neutrality](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@Heart\_Full\_of\_Neutrality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_Full_of_Neutrality)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/37 "2010-05-03T16:25:57Z")
> [@Canby](#): > > Was it Glacier Bay? All I can find on it are a few posts like [this one](http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/1338872) asking “whatever happened to it?” > > I vaguely recall it might have been called Arctic Bay for a while too. And of course, it was super cheap. Same time frame, early 90’s. Glacier Bay! I don’t know if that’s what the OP was looking for, but this is the beer I thought of (and couldn’t remember the name of) when I read this thread. It was killing me that I couldn’t remember what this stuff was called. Now I can sleep again. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/38 "2010-05-03T18:11:15Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > Sweet! > > Thanks for all the suggestions so far. It was definitely not Tres Equis, Miller Lite, MGD, Carta Blanca or Erdinger Champ. > > I vaguely remember it being a green bottle, though I may just be confusing it with Mickey’s Wide Mouth, which we also drank a lot of. Those rebus puzzles got harder withe very bottle. My memory is that Knickerbocker was a dark brown bottle. But if I’m wrong, blame the Bow and Arrow.. (or maybe the Hong Kong; I can at least remember leaving the Bow and Arrow) ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/39 "2010-05-04T02:33:03Z")
> [@Canby](#): > > Was it Glacier Bay? All I can find on it are a few posts like [this one](http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/1338872) asking “whatever happened to it?” > > I vaguely recall it might have been called Arctic Bay for a while too. And of course, it was super cheap. Same time frame, early 90’s. Beaten to it again. I drank a ton of this stuff in college in the early 90s. Cheap and you had the cool bottle opener. Put the old bottle on top of the new one, twist, and you have a freshly opened beer. Many cases of this went down my gullet. Good times! ---
**Author:** ![bottlecollector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bottlecollector](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bottlecollector)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556/40 "2010-12-22T13:15:37Z")
glacier bay… Drank em’ by the case in the early 90’s [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-bottle-with-built-in-opener/537556.md?page=3)