Corkscrew-related Question.

[cody6268]

I really want to use my SAK's corkscrew as intended, but don't consume alcohol.  What non-alcoholic beverages are sold in bottles that require a corkscrew to be opened, and are also somewhat easily found in American grocery stores?    My folks are often given non-alcoholic sparkling juice beverages in wine bottles, but neither used a cork that needed a corkscrew. One was set up to pop out as soon as you removed the wire around the cork, the other used a crown cap (which I used my Fireman's bottle opener on just now).

[Myron]

Hmm, that's a toughie.  I wonder if maybe there are any olive oils that use corks still?

Good luck.

Myron

[smiller43147]

Can't really think of anything.  I once bought a bottle of single malt scotch that had a cork, but it had a cap on top of the cork, and it could be removed and inserted fairly easily.  Plus it obviously had alcohol in it.  Other things that used to have a cork had looser fitting corks that didn't require the use of a corkscrew.
Wine seems to be the last thing to use a cork, and less expensive wines use screw tops, or man made "corks" (although those still require a corkscrew).

[shadowrider]

The only bottles with corks I can think of that don't contain alcohol are very old wine bottles where wine has turned to vinegar... 
I've seen bottles of olive oil with cork caps, but there the cork is not pressed tight and not meant to be extracted with a corkscrew. The reason for that is that oil doesn't need such an air-tight closure, since there is no vapour (i.e. alcohol) that can evaporate.

Other containers that used tight corks in the past were perfume bottles and medicine bottles. Maybe you can find yourself a bottle of vintage cologne, to be able to use the corkscrew that one time!

[Stormdrane]

It's been years since the last time I used a corkscrew to open a wine or non-alcholic sparkling beverage bottle with a cork.  I pretty much use the corkscrews on my Victorinox and Wenger knives, and Leatherman Juice Pro, to hold a mini screwdriver that does get used from time to time.  I've also used the corkscrew to tighten/loosen some knot work, when I didn't have a marlinspike handy.