Tempest Wax Seal

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:16 am

God help you lot if/when you ever get bottles of Black Butte Anniversary Ales, or Driftwood's Singularity...you'd be going thirsty due to being so weak

chris_schryer · Post by **chris_schryer** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:47 am

Hardest bottle I've ever gotten into (thinking of opening, not dealing with surging after the fact) was a 3 Monts. Needed needle-nosed pliers.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:50 am

Amsterdam released this Intsagram video on how to get past the wax seal - http://instagram.com/p/gIyjQmkjpw/#

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:49 pm

Iceman wrote:Amsterdam released this Intsagram video on how to get past the wax seal - http://instagram.com/p/gIyjQmkjpw/#

That's a video of the back of someone's hand.

Soods · Post by **Soods** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:08 pm

I feared the worst while reading these posts, but I've had two bottles that I've opened and haven't had any trouble at all.

No knives, no acetylene torches and no gimmicks. Just a plain old bottle opener (you know the old ones with the can piercer on the other end) and pry away. Couldn't have spent any more that 10 seconds tops total for the 2 bottles.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:12 pm

I don't understand this thread at all.

Personally, I love the look of waxed bottles and I also somewhat enjoy removing wax from a bottle to open it ... kind of reinforces that I am about to drink a special beer (well, most of the time anyway).

midlife crisis · Post by **midlife crisis** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:24 pm

I do too, when it actually comes off. Anyway, whatever. It's been flogged to death. The beer itself is great.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 1:08 am

I like the video Chris, and the baby saying 'help!' off camera at the beginning sounds like the beer crying to get out! Cute.

Lucky we have a trained chef and knife expert on hand to deal with this serious wax problem. Now what stupid things can we get up to?

TCB · Post by **TCB** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 7:48 am

Was in a store yesterday that mentioned they were getting returns because the folks couldn't open the bottles.

I was going to try one anyways but now I got to buy a couple just to tackle this wax dip challenge.

chris_schryer · Post by **chris_schryer** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:15 pm

Here's the edited video, with commentary:
http://www.torontobeerblog.com/miscella ... ial-stout/

Like I said: pretty simple.

grub · Post by **grub** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:45 pm

chris_schryer wrote:Here's the edited video, with commentary:
http://www.torontobeerblog.com/miscella ... ial-stout/

and what a shame, you had to drink two of 'em for your public service announcement!

the other bit I sometimes add to make it even easier, in addition to the notch I'll usually run the knife all the way around just under the cap (at 90 degrees to the bottle, blade parallel to the top of the cap). do this with the flat part, not the tip, and you can safely get all the way around. That way it comes off even easier once you get your notch since you don't have to tear through the wax around. Especially important with the really heavy wax bottles and those that seem more plasticy consistency (I'm looking at you, surly darkness... some of them are double and triple dipped!)

toweringpine · Post by **toweringpine** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:49 am

Soods wrote:I feared the worst while reading these posts, but I've had two bottles that I've opened and haven't had any trouble at all.

No knives, no acetylene torches and no gimmicks. Just a plain old bottle opener (you know the old ones with the can piercer on the other end) and pry away. Couldn't have spent any more that 10 seconds tops total for the 2 bottles.

This

OK, I may have taken ten seconds per bottle. Used an opener as described above, used the point to score the wax peeled it off in two pieces and popped off the top.

Seems like a tempest in a teapot to me

J343MY · Post by **J343MY** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 1:12 pm

toweringpine wrote:
Soods wrote:I feared the worst while reading these posts, but I've had two bottles that I've opened and haven't had any trouble at all.

No knives, no acetylene torches and no gimmicks. Just a plain old bottle opener (you know the old ones with the can piercer on the other end) and pry away. Couldn't have spent any more that 10 seconds tops total for the 2 bottles.
This

OK, I may have taken ten seconds per bottle. Used an opener as described above, used the point to score the wax peeled it off in two pieces and popped off the top.

Seems like a tempest in a teapot to me

Some were way worse than others. When I grabbed mine, I made sure to get ones with the thinest wax. Kish84 & JB84 had one where the wax was stupid thick. It almost looked like a joke, like the guy dipping it was probably laughing thinking about people trying to open it.

midlife crisis · Post by **midlife crisis** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 1:14 pm

I think this must be the case too. I defy any human to open the ones I had in ten seconds (except by blow torch of course).

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:52 pm

I ran into this problem last week... Chris did made it look really easy, but it didn't work nearly that well with a dull hotel knife.