old beer bottle/can openers

[TM]

Nice ones, trail

A couple of weeks ago I visited the Shiner Brewery in Shiner, TX. Picked up this 'brewery key' while I was there.

[trail]

We used to use Church keys to open beer, do you think a beer key would open a Church?

[fergusontd]

CocaCola opener from 1950's

[trail]

G. Krueger brewed Ambassador Beer in Newark. The brewery closed in 1961.

[philco]

We used to use Church keys to open beer, do you think a beer key would open a Church?

Trail, if you show up on Sunday, they'll let you in and you won't even need a key.

Better leave the beer in the car.

Phil

[Miller Bro's]

Here are a few I have.








M.B.

[tjmurphy]

TM

Tell me about your ZIPPO lighter.

[TM]

Hey tj - the zippo in the scan is brass and one of their 1941 replica models. It's only a couple of years old.

[tjmurphy]

Here are few that I have. These are local brewries in my area, Northern Kentucky. The Wiedemann Brewery was in Newport, Ky. and the Bavarian Brewery was in Covington, Ky.

[junebug]

heres my beer me!!! device........ a RAINIER carbon steel w/ sterling silver band w/ name..and stag handle

[tjmurphy]

This is interesting. I guess when I deleted photos from photobucket.com, it replaced the photos in my post with something else. Anyone else ever have this happen?

[orvet]

Tom,
When you post a link to a photo it pulls the image from that site.
If you change what is at the site, the pic changes.

The easy thing to do is download the pic to AAPK and you don't have to maintain the pics at another site.

Dale

[trail]

Hers's an Honorary Budweiser Brewmaster key. It's a big ole thing - 6 3/4 inches overall.

[knife7knut]

Here are a few from my collection:
1st is a Bonsa folding knife w/cap lifter and folding church key.Only one I've ever seen.
2nd is a cap lifter on the end of a knife marked,"Marietta Torpedo Co" which made torpedoes for oil drilling rigs.Too long to explain.
3rs is one of the strangest knives I have ever seen:it has a straight edged blade with a guide(?)on the tip.Use unknown.It has a saw blade and a curved blade that only opens 90 degrees(sort of like an opium harvesting knife)and a folding cap lifter/church key on the top.No maker's name.
4th is a folding church key with fixed cap lifter.Very unusual.
5th is a Hickok bar tool that has a hammer/ice breaker with a cap lifter on the other end and a corkscrew inside the hammer head and a knife blade inside the other end.An olive fork and a martini stirrer complete the set which is inside a fitted leather case.
6th is a pair of cap lifter/church key combos with a matching ice pick.

[knife7knut]

More pictures

[trail]

Country Club Malt Liquor was brewed by M.K. Goetz of St. Joseph, MO, itself (after 1961) a division of the legendary Pearl Brewing Company of San Antonio TX.

[cbnutt]

TJ, i dont have a pic, but i have a martin guitar bottle opener.

[CCBill]

I remember when, "Old Milwaukee" beer came to Amarillo back in the 70's. I have a friend that was a real Beero(instead of wino). He came by my house one day and asked me to follow him in my pickup. He went to a local(Amarillo) United grocery store. They were introducing Old M at $3.00 per case. He asked the manager if there was a limit on how many cases he could buy. The manager said he could only buy 3 cases per visit. We went through the checkout many, many times with 3 cases each. Butch wound up buying 285 cases of beer over a 2 day period. He stacked them in his garage and grabbed a case EVERY DAY, when he left for work. He was managing a family farm and ranching operation(his family owned about 35 sections of land)
He'd put a case of beer on the seat beside him, hot or cold, and that's what he drank all day long. Saw him a couple of years ago. He quit drinking. That's no mean feat for a person that drank AT LEAST a case a day for 25 years.
One of his Brothers made some stuff called "Apple Beer" one time. Butch handed me a glass of it to try. He said it was kind of syrupy because they pulled it off early. I drank it. I didn't get very drunk but I swear that everybody else was so drunk that I could just barely see them.The drunker I sat there, the longer I got.
True story. Sorry I hijacked your thread.
...CCBill...

[trail]

Farmers and Old Milwaukee... I had a friend, grew up in the depression and scraped out a livelihood one way or another for the next 60 years - always kept a six pack of Old Milwaukee on the front seat of his truck. A bunch of us teenagers were throwing hay for him one day, and after we got done he gave us each one of those hot beers. Went down like air...

[trail]

Another great old American brewer:

[tjmurphy]

Here are couple of more local Northern Kentucky Beers. Wiedemann's brewed in Newport, Ky., and Bavarian's brewed in Covington, Ky.

[FRJ]

Well guys, here's one you don't have. I have long wanted to make my own cap lifter and searched for an appropriate vehicle to fashion one from. Being a collector of old tools I came across this old turn screw which long ago was kneveled by someone. I don't think the blade and handle were original. All the more reason to bastardize it into something else. I would'nt ruin an honest old tool. And you know, this darn thing works!!

Joe

[FRJ]

O.K., this is a challenge. This cap lifter was easy to fashion. Will someone else offer their own creation? I hope someone will go to their bench and post picts of their results. Go for it!!!!

Joe

[trail]

How about take a dremel tool to it and engrave "FRJ Knifemaker's Premium Lager" on it, then put it aside for historians of the next century to puzzle over? That's a great opener, the best I've seen yet! If I had a shop and the slightest bit of mechanical aptitude, I'd try making one myself. I hope you have started something and we see some more "custom" bottle openers on this thread.

[trail]

Here is a milk cap lifter from Rountree Dairy of Suffolk, Virginia. In recent years, the dairy has been redeveloped for golf and residential.