A situation, which can occur at any time: A fresh, cool beer to the hand, but no bottle opener. (Translated)

So goes the explanation behind this three-year German project to find 1000 ways to open a pop-top beer bottle.

Basically, if you can think of an object with anything closely resembling a solid, straight edge (you know, a table, some bread, your own teeth…), they’ve tried, and succeeded.

To test this, we reached for the first object we could find, and then grabbed our German-English dictionary for the translation so we could look it up on the list. Then we realized we could just use the dictionary itself…

Our only complaint is that the 1000 different methods aren’t given any kind of score. So if we find ourselves in a room, Macgyver-style, with an unopened bottle of beer and a golf tee, a potato press and a sword, then which do we choose? Guess we’ll just have to get two more beers…

1000 Arten ein Bier zu öffnen [via A Good Beer Blog]