Waxed bottles with a pull tab...

What, exactly, IS the benefit of wax?

 

Looks like it worked very well on that bottle. However, I've also had the experience of the wax being very brittle and when the tab was pulled fragments of wax went all over the place.

 

Screw the wax....that beer looks damn good right now!

 

I agree Triple C's pull tab is the way to go for wax. The only downside is you have to hold it over a trash can when you pull it cuz the wax flies everywhere. Perfectly fine with trading that for taking a knife to it and risking injury.

 

The first time i saw it, Flying Fish in NJ waxes their bombers and they use these pull tabs.

 

Side Project does it. And I for one am foe it!

 

Never opened a wax sealed beer bottle. Not after buying a hot sauce bottle with a wax seal that took me forever to open. I just want to get to the sweet hot sauce/beer nectar!

 

Pull tabs are better than screaming obscenities while hacking at it with a kitchen knife

 

It makes people feel fancy.

 

think I saw a pull tab on a 2016 FW Sucaba but could be wrong.

 

actually now I'm thinking it had a pull tab but not a wax top : )

 

Even normally waxed bottles don't require a knife to open, that's a noob mistake. Just open the beer with a bottle opener like you would if there was no wax, it works. Using a knife is pointless and makes removing the wax a difficult and dangerous process when it shouldn't be.

 

Wax adds tremendous value. I generally pay about $5 more per limited release bomber that is waxed than one that's not. That couldn't possibly be merely aesthetics and marketing, that would seem wrong...

 

Hear, hear

 

Griffin Claw does it here in Michigan and I love 'em! Makes opening a waxed bottle so much easier.

 

Maker's Mark has those. Probably a good idea versus someone who is drunk slicing their finger off and suing the beer company.

 

Wellll, the KBBS scandal a while back involved a person REWAXING the bottle, so wax alone doesn't necessarily indicate taht a bottle hasn't been opened, altered or resealed.

 

YES! OMG getting the wax off some bottles can be a nightmare its so thick. I've always wondered why they don't have a built in way to get the wax off. To answer the question, I can't think of any wax bottles I've run into that have something like this.