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(6) SIX PIECE LOT
TAKE ONE OR TAKE ALL
'FROM THE CYPRESS CASKS OF GOEBEL'
OLD METAL BOTTLE OPENER
CIRCA 1935 - 1940
SHOWS AGE / TARNISH
HALLMARK EMBLEM IS AN OLD WORLD EAGLE CREST
EMPIRE / EMPIRICAL ICON
THE IMPLEMENT IS ABOUT 8cm LONG
VEST POCKET SIZE
RARE / OBSCURE / OBSOLETE
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VINTAGE BEER OPENER
FROM THE M.K. GOETZ BREWERY
ST. JOSEPH AND KANSAS CITY
MISSOURI
POST PROHIBITION,
SHORTLY AFTER THE KC PLANT WAS CONSTRUCTED.
CIRCA 1936 - 1940
"COUNTRY CLUB PILSENER"
IN THE CONE TOP
BARWARE MEASURES ABOUT 7cm
EYELET FOB FOR KEY CHAIN
SHOWS RUST AND WEAR.
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VINTAGE BEER OPENER
FROM THE M.K. GOETZ BREWERY
ST. JOSEPH AND KANSAS CITY
MISSOURI
POST PROHIBITION,
SHORTLY AFTER THE KC PLANT WAS CONSTRUCTED.
CIRCA 1936 - 1940
"COUNTRY CLUB PILSENER"
IN THE CONE TOP
BARWARE MEASURES ABOUT 7cm
EYELET FOB FOR KEY CHAIN
SHOWS RUST AND WEAR.
+
SCHLITZ
BEER OPENER
EKCO CHICAGO
USA PATENT PENDING
COPYRIGHT 1963
JOSEPH SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY
BREWERIES AT MILWAUKKE WISCONSIN
BROOKLYN NY, KANSAS CITY MO, TAMPA FL
LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO CA
"THE BEER THAT MADE WILWAUKEE FAMOUS"
4" LONG
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VINTAGE CARLING
BEER OPENER
"NOT FOR RESALE"
CMI APP.
VAUGHAN USA 59'
9cm
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HAVE A COKE
DRINK COCA COLA
BOTTLE OPENER
BIG MOUTH HINGE
CIRCA 1940 +/-
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FYI
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Beer is the world's most widely consumed and probably the oldest of alcoholic beverages; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), and rice are widely used. Most beer is flavoured with hops, which add bitterness and act as a natural preservative, though other flavourings such as herbs or fruit may occasionally be included. Some of humanity's earliest known writings refer to the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi included laws regulating beer and beer parlours, and "The Hymn to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, served as both a prayer and as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people. Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries.
The strength of beer is usually around 4% to 6% alcohol by volume (abv) though may range from less than 1% abv, to over 20% abv in rare cases. The current world record is held by BrewDog, a Scottish craft brewery who brewed End of History in 2010; a freeze-distilled beer coming in at 55% ABV. It is also one of the most expensive costing between £500 and £700 ($800 - $1000; US) each 12 oz bottle.
Beer forms part of the culture of beer-drinking nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as a rich pub culture involving activities like pub crawling and pub games such as bar billiards.
Beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC, when cereal was first farmed, and is recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Archaeologists speculate that beer was instrumental in the formation of civilisations.
The earliest known chemical evidence of beer dates to circa 3500–3100 BC from the site of Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran. Some of the earliest Sumerian writings found in the region contain references to a type of beer; one such example, a prayer to the goddess Ninkasi, known as "The Hymn to Ninkasi", served as both a prayer as well as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people. The Ebla tablets, discovered in 1974 in Ebla, Syria and date back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of beers, including one that appears to be named "Ebla" after the city. A beer made from rice, which, unlike sake, didn't use the amylolytic process, and was probably prepared for fermentation by mastication or malting, was made in China around 7000 BC.
As almost any substance containing carbohydrates, mainly sugars or starch, can naturally undergo fermentation, it is likely that beer-like beverages were independently invented among various cultures throughout the world. The invention of bread and beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity's ability to develop technology and build civilization.
Beer was spread through Europe by Germanic and Celtic tribes as far back as 3000 BC, and it was mainly brewed on a domestic scale. The product that the early Europeans drank might not be recognised as beer by most people today. Alongside the basic starch source, the early European beers might contain fruits, honey, numerous types of plants, spices and other substances such as narcotic herbs. What they did not contain was hops, as that was a later addition first mentioned in Europe around 822 by a Carolingian Abbot and again in 1067 by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen.
In 1516, William IV, Duke of Bavaria, adopted the Reinheitsgebot (purity law), perhaps the oldest food-quality regulation still in use through the 20th century, according to which the only allowed ingre
