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Emergency bottle opener: iPad power adapter
It’s always good to have a back-up way to get your beer bottle open. Well, if you’re an iPad (or, apparently, Mac) user you’ve got one that you keep everywhere. Your power adapter.
You’ll want to be careful of course. You wouldn’t want to damage your ability to recharge your device. Ms. Eva Giselle wins the Hop Talk Genius Award. Thank you @EvaZebra!
(via Lifehacker)
Headcase contest winner!
You’ll recall that we were running a contest to win a Headcase iPhone case/bottle opener and that we’d give one of these cases to an entrant chosen at random.
Well, we have a winner!
Amanda Brezina sent in the following photo with this message:
After a long day of lying on the beach, what better way to recover than a nice cold Sam Adams Summer Ale and a delicious grilled dinner!
I agree, Amanda. Congratulations!
Thanks all who sent in their photos. Below is a selection of a few.
Win a Headcase iPhone case with bottle opener
In addition to being beer geeks, Ron and I tend to wander into gadget geekery as well. We don’t always agree on certain aspects, though. I tend to like doohickeys that do one thing and do it well. He has abolished all single-purpose items from his kitchen. I’m also Android; he’s iPhone.
While we could probably argue about Smart Phone OSes at least as long as we discuss beer, I think this week he’s got the upper hand.
The Headcase bottle opener case is not just a case for your iPhone, it’s also a bottle opener. (They have models for the iPhone 4 as well as the iPhone 3GS.) Not only that, it comes with a free app that counts the bottle tops and cans you open and lets you record custom sounds to play when you open them.
Jungle Cents is running a special whereby you can get a voucher for one of these bad boys for $10. That’s half of the usual $20.
But you, dear reader, have an opportunity to get one of these bad boys FOR FREE!
How you ask? Simple:
- Take a photo of a beer bottle with your iPhone. (Even better: you and your beer bottle)
- Send the photo to me at al [at] hop-talk.com with your name and e-mail address, and maybe some background details of why you’re drinking that beer.
- Send it by July 14, 2011.
On July 15 I’ll pick one person at random and get him or her a voucher for a free Headcase.
Sorry, Ron. You’re not eligible.
A true gift
My friend Chris has this steel credit card shaped bottle opener he keeps in his wallet. I’ve been hoping to get one of my own for quite some time. A few weeks ago I was at his place for a party when he had occasion to use it again and, as usual, I muttered something to the effect of “Man! I really gotta get one of those!”
So the lovely lady on his arm, Lisa, reached into her purse and pulled out this well-worn but still fully-functional version of her own and handed it to me.
She explained that it belonged to her brother, Will, who died last October. Beer lover that I am I would get much more use out of it than she, and it should go to someone who would appreciate it.
How could I say no?
Thank you, Lisa.
This one (and all the ones I open with this from now on) are raised in Will’s honor.
Open a beer bottle with a disposable lighter
I keep a bottle opener on my keychain. Like my American Express card, I never leave home without it.
But in case I ever do, at least I have some options available.
WIRED How-To Wiki: Open a Beer Bottle With a Lighter
(via Lifehacker)
See also:
- The paper bottle opener
- Open a beer with a dollar bill
- Beer Survival: open a beer bottle with a ring
- 1000 ways to open a beer
Beer survival: open a beer bottle with a ring
Here’s a skill that would come in handy in an emergency. That emergency being, of course, lacking a beer bottle opener.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T3QC95D8wE
Of course, I don’t think my wife would appreciate me using my wedding band in such a way. Unless I was opening a beer for her.
(via Lifehacker)
Thumb drive bottle opener
Another intersection of beer and technology.
Award-winning German design TrekStor firm appears to be making a combination bottle opener and 8GB USB drive.
Actually, I am in the market for a thumb drive. This might be just what I need.
(via Dowd’s Brews Notebook)
Open a beer with a dollar bill
This is essentially the same as the paper bottle opener, but should net you a bit more money from bar bets.
Open Beer With One Dollar Bill. College SURVIVAL 101 – The funniest videos clips are here
1000 ways to open a beer
Not satisfied with a bottle opener made out of paper? How about 1,000 different ways to open a bottle without a bottle opener?
Okay, granted, the site is in German, but since the techniques are accompanied by photos you shouldn’t have any trouble figuring them out. For the rest, Babelfish should be sufficient.
