How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Carabiner
Published on Monday, December 3, 2007, by CHOW Video Team
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How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Carabiner
On the off chance that a bottle opener is not around but a carabiner is. Daniel Duane opens a bottle of beer with a piece of rock-climbing equipment.
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If you can't figure a way to open a bottle of beer when there is no opener around, you should actually hang yourself with the rope that the caribiner was attached to.
Why is this only for hiking? The granddaddy of all coolers is the snow drift into which you place the beers prior to skinning into the backcountry. When you ski back down, there they are, ice cold.
That said, there's a reason that ski edges are made of metal ;-)
If you are prepared enough on your hiking trip to carry a cooler to keep your bottled beer chilled, surely you won't forget the opener???????
How are you supposed to climb hard if you aren't drunk or stoned? (Look at some of the route names on El Capitan)
That said, tall boys of Olde English were invented for exactly such necessities. That way you can crack a 40 while belaying.
> I am certain that I will not ever want to be climbing a mountain with my rope attached to carabiner that was previously used to open beer bottles
Comedy...+READ
How are you supposed to climb hard if you aren't drunk or stoned? (Look at some of the route names on El Capitan)
That said, tall boys of Olde English were invented for exactly such necessities. That way you can crack a 40 while belaying.
> I am certain that I will not ever want to be climbing a mountain with my rope attached to carabiner that was previously used to open beer bottles
Comedy gold!
I'll have to send in a video of the guy who taught me how to open a beer one-handed with the metal part of the seatbelt buckle while driving. (Dude solos WI6 and leads 5.11X)
Now *that's* handy, especially after a good day of climbing ice in the Dacks or a long route in the Ditch. By the time you get to the Mountain Room bar, you can already be halfway through a six-pack.
Cheers!-COLLAPSE
If you grab the bottle of beer tightly, around the neck, and close to the cap, the first bone after your knuckle, towards your fingernail, of your pointing finger will become a fulcurm. I have never failed to find a lever within 20ft that will do the job easily.
If you grab the bottle of beer tightly, around the neck, and close too the cap, the first bone after your knuckle, towards your fingernail, of your pointing finger will become a fulcurm. I have never failed to find a lever within 20ft that will do the job easily.
I don't know anything about mountain climbing, but I am certain that I will not ever want to be climbing a mountain with my rope attached to carabiner that was previously used to open beer bottles. I will want the thing that is keeping me from falling down the side of the mountain to be a as pristine as possible.
Some people use their teeth. Oddly, they usually have had a beer or two FIRST. how did they get it open?
shiner bock has a twist off cap. I'm indiana and i know that. you could also use a table top, a lighter, a belt buckle, or since its shiner bock, YOUR HAND.
Been doing that for years. A carabiner IS my keychain. Works every time.
Because beer and rock climbing naturally go together.
Next, Daniel Duane will show us how to use crampons to put your skull back together before the paramedics get to the scene!
I shall now always attach a full size carabiner to my pack while hiking :) Although I don't think the one on my key chain will be strong enough to pop the top.
Is this a situation people find themselves in often: carabiner, beer, and no bottle opener?
I think the situation knife, beer, no opener is far more common. Maybe a "how to open your beer bottle with a knife" video would be more generally useful?