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Question about beer bottles
« on: June 11, 2018, 09:53:57 PM »
How is everyone in the Dresden files able to pop the caps off beer bottles with just their thumbs?  That’s not something just anyone can do if they lack superhuman strength.  Does JB just not understand this or are all the beer bottles like “Grolsch”?
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2018, 10:52:50 PM »
Well, most of the people drinking Mac's beer *are* super powered.  Billy and Thomas are both qualified.  Harry and Murphy aren't, but he's a Starborn, and she's Irish

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2018, 01:25:04 AM »
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2018, 05:33:46 AM »
How is everyone in the Dresden files able to pop the caps off beer bottles with just their thumbs?  That’s not something just anyone can do if they lack superhuman strength.  Does JB just not understand this or are all the beer bottles like “Grolsch”?
  Jim has stated before he never used to drink alcohol.  In fact, in VA he mentioned he didn't have his first drink till he was 44.  Also, in Skin Game they need the might of Mjolnir to open some of Mac's brews.

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2018, 02:23:59 PM »
How is everyone in the Dresden files able to pop the caps off beer bottles with just their thumbs?  That’s not something just anyone can do if they lack superhuman strength.  Does JB just not understand this or are all the beer bottles like “Grolsch”?
I thought only Mac himself did that?  I know harry and Michael have used bottle-openers.
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2018, 03:00:51 PM »
I don't know how anyone does that without mangling their thumbs. If you wear a ring made of something not too soft you can use that once you get the hang of it though.

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2018, 03:05:50 PM »
I don't know how anyone does that without mangling their thumbs. If you wear a ring made of something not too soft you can use that once you get the hang of it though.
A tough enough callous on your thumb would protect it from the metal fine, and past that it just takes a certain amount of finger strength and a bit of a leverage trick. 

OR, since Mac does his own bottling he might just be using bottles and a press that do not latch them on as strongly as commercial bottles.
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2018, 03:38:37 PM »
My brother-in-law, Champion Beer Drinker (literally; he has a trophy) is able to do it. I think the trick is to twist the bottle, not your hand.

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2018, 06:46:40 PM »
Mac wouldn't use modern caps I don't think.  I think he'd be using something more like this:

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2018, 06:58:44 PM »
Slowpool,

  Jim has stated before he never used to drink alcohol.  In fact, in VA he mentioned he didn't have his first drink till he was 44.  Also, in Skin Game they need the might of Mjolnir to open some of Mac's brews.

Up to, at least, Proven Guilty they were popping the caps off bear bottles with their thumbs.  Mack, Harry, and Murphy included.
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2018, 06:59:54 PM »
groinkick,

Mac wouldn't use modern caps I don't think.  I think he'd using something more like this:



That's why I asked about the "Grolsch" bottles.  Those would make sense.  But even those are tough to open with just your thumb.
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2018, 07:08:24 PM »
Anyone say what kind of beer it was? 

Here is someone doing it with just their thumb.  Someone said it's a miller light, and they are twist tops and that's how he did it.

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2018, 07:17:34 PM »
Yea, you can find Eagle Claw Kung Fu guys on youtube literally ripping holes in the sides of cans with their fingers. I can see someone who tends a bar developing said ability on a standard human level. Or regular drinker I suppose.
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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2018, 11:23:59 PM »
Since Mac is running a microbrewery, it could be that they're pop-off tops that aren't sealed incredibly tight.  Mac seems prone to pour workmanship.

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Re: Question about beer bottles
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2018, 11:46:04 PM »
Heh.. That gave me stomach cramps.
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