If you are planning on drinking Chimay regularly, you might want to invest in a cork wrench.
The back of a horse’s jaw where the bit normally sets just so happens to fit a Chimay cork. Set the bottle in the jaw, then loosen up the fan belt on an old Chevy Nova and set the butt end of the bottle against the alternator and loop the belt around the bottle. Set a couple of sugar cubes on the manifold to keep the horse’s attention. Now start wondering why you drank those Guinesses so quickly and where this little project is leading…
We have a 20 ton press here in the machine shop. Bring that bottle over here and I’ll make sure that cork doesn’t give you anymore trouble.
Place in clean bucket. Hit with hammer. Pour through paper coffee filter into old fashioned soda charger. Recarbonate one glass at a time.
Okay, I gave it one more try with good old brute force. You know what happened? The cork moved. And by moved, I mean I tore the top knot off the cork. WTF, this is too much. Anyway, I’m not one to be foiled by an inanimate object for too long, so thanks to the miracle of horses, 20 ton presses and a corkscrew, I am now enjoying a nice frosty goblet of Chimay.
I may have to consider sticking with the single serving bottles in the future.