Wasn't expecting a cork under that cap...

I'd not recommend doing it that way if only because of the mess you'd have on breaking a bottle of carbonated liquid. Not to mention the loss of liquid and glass fragments scattered around the room from the strength of the impact required to break something designed to be hard to break.

 

But that's how @utopiajane opens all of her bottles. She doesn't own a bottle opener.

 

I was thinking I have a mallet. Someone said who does not have these tools. Me. And why cant I just break off the neck of the bottle in the sink with it. Ok y'all are right. =) I have a bottle opener.

 

Hmmm, then she's really good with Photoshop!

 

She's really good with a mallet and glue too.

 

Man, you need to get some stuff to fill up your drawers.....

 

In the running for thread of the year. Thanks everyone for starting my day off with a good laugh.

 

I know a few homebrewers who can put their heads together and over-engineer something that may kinda work for you...

 

This is the most elegant solution yet proposed.

 

How is this thread even still alive?

 

Hey, we're still coming up with ideas.

One of my co-workers was planning to make drinking glasses out of beer bottles. IIRC, the basic procedure involves soaking a piece of string in lighter fluid, then tying it around the bottle and lighting it. It's supposed to be easy to break the bottle at the string line. Might want to give this a shot.

Then post a video of it.

 

that's what i said to her. luckily i had a corkscrew tho'.

no but seriously. besides the obvious. anyone who can afford fancy beers with hidden corks, should be able to afford & should invest in a corkscrew. the screw idea works. you can also jam a regular door key in the cork sort of on a diagonal angle. once it's wedged deep/completely into the cork, work it clockwise or counterclockwise while applying upward force & the cork will rise attached to key.

 

Just push the cork in. All you will have is one big floatie; I have yet to have a Lindemann cork disintegrate.

 

But they do it this way all the time on old westerns with whiskey bottles, and they don't even bother with the cheese cloth!

 

Wow! I think "don't try this at home" is the best advice!

 

I've tried the technique of drilling a screw into the cork and pulling it out with a hammer. Problem is, if you don't have a screw with wide enough threads, it will just pull out of the cork and leave a shredded, messy hole in the cork. You can pour through it, but you'd get a lot of crap in your glass, and the small hole would make the beer super foamy since you're pouring out of a vacuum (it would aerate the wine well though).
No, the best solution is to buy masonry screws where the body of the screw is thin but the threads stick out a lot so you get a really good grab on the screw while you pull it out with a hammer or pliers. To be extra safe, get a vice grip while your at it so you don't lose grip of the screw and drop the bottle accidentally. That is the absolute best way to remove a cork - buying masonry screws, a hammer, and a vice grip.

 

They really should make screws with threads designed to remove corks. I wonder what those would be called...

 

Where can I send my bill for cleaning the coffee off my monitor?

 

Send it to @jmasher85 along with mine .

 

Maybe this works on an empty bottle, but on a full bottle the liquid inside would conduct the heat away from the glass way too quickly for it to affect the bottle.