Why Don't More Beer Bottles Have Twist-Off Caps?

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. The counter service is quick and fun. Do not plan on a wine list – while they have a “red,” or a “white,” you’ll get plastic cups and a twist-off cap on a tiny “airplane-sized”...

Any non twist-off bottles will do, I prefer brown

twist-offs was $8 and a case of quarts ran $6 (+ $3 deposit). If you’re really serious about this root beer thing you can get a keg (don’t know the price but I’m sure it’s a great deal). They also make...

for a bottle of New Zealand sauvignon blanc (twist-off cap, of course!) with nice grapefruit tones. Another highlight was the bread basket – really good biscuits and corn bread. 4. Border Cafe. We moved over to Mandalay for...

? the top? Will they all grow back? Even chives? It looks so easy on TV when chefs just reach out their windows and twist-off a big handful of fresh herbs.

bottle, an Oz Shiraz, Billy Goat on-sale @ $7. Had to CUT off the damned twist-off cap since no pliers were handy. It was satisfactory at the sale-price)

with more resonance than a twist-off Stelvin. 9. The continued perception that a Stelvin-closed wine is of lesser quality than a cork-closed one, when that is no longer accurate. 10. Environmental impact of both, basically: cork...

that the (very good) Australian shiraz we had ordered had a twist-off cap, repeatedly tried in vain to open the bottle with the blade of her corkscrew until I finally insisted on opening it myself. We started with cheeses (I...

I encountered that dilemma once – solved it by ordering a Snapple and chug-a-lugging it. The wide mouth and twist-off cap is perfect for the transferral of sauce in and out of the jar. And seeing that delicious E&J sauce...

Zyliss makes a 4-in-1 bottle/can/jar opener that’s pretty handy. It opens regular bottles, of course, but also has one end that opens the plastic "twist-off" tops that come on soft drink and soda bottles, and has a little...

I remember the Canei wine ads – I think that was one of the first wines to ever have a twist-off cap ...

“complimentary” free bottle/can openers got smaller in the days before the twist-off bottle and “pop top” cans, THEY started being deposited inside the bottles- so the opener mfg’s had to stamp...

, indicating that it is probably a stopper-style cork. I can also feel the ridges on the twist-off stopper along the rim through the capsule. This type of closure is appropriate for a wine that will be enjoyed over a period of...