Opening beer bottles? There’s an app (or a case) for that

[dividebyzero]

I don't care for Bass Pale Ale. If you are going to drink a PA or IPA, I'd suggest: Ranger IPA (New Holland Brewing out of Colorado), Boulevard PA or their Single Wide IPA (Kansas City, MO) they also have a Double Wide IPA out of their Smokestack series which is really good, but also pretty expensive, or Sierra Nevada PA or Sierra Nevada Torpedo (IPA) out of somewhere in California

Not really applicable in New Zealand I'm afraid. The only US beers that hit these shores could be termed "bulk swill". IPA's in general, regardless of the degree of crafting, reputation, price or country of manufacture all tend to "pale" into insignificance in this country, where Tui is less a beer than a semi-organised religion (Google "Tui billboards" for a better overview)

While we are discussing this, I think many of the "green bottle" beers all have a very similar and "skunky" smell - I know in part (large?) that is to do with light entering the bottles, but even if you get ones that haven't seen much light (Heineken cans or Heineken 12 pack of bottles (enclosed well, preventing light)) they still all taste pretty similar (even soapy).

Skunking affects clear-glassed beers also. Brown glass tends to produce a cleaner taste, whilst very few beers benefit from being put into aluminium cans.
Having travelled a large part of the globe, I can also say that a beer can taste markedly different depending who has the local market manufacture, and the purity (or otherwise) of the water used. Lowenbrau I tasted in the U.S. tasted like sh1t- "Brewed under Supervision" my a*s. Mexican Heineken also has a tendancy to taste chlorinated compared with the Dutch product or a brewer that adheres to a closer QC regime. The problem I noticed in the U.S. is that you pay a high premium for "Export quality", but by the time it hits retail outlets it is at (or near) expiry date.

 

[Archean]

Myself, I drink milk, OJ, and Coca Cola. I suppose I've never grown up.

You are not alone in "never grown up" category (if we judge it the way you laid it out), my day start with a glass of OJ, coffee around 11, and ends with a glass of milk.

I find that rather odd. I always had a thought of you being a Brandy man, or a Whisky chap. Maybe sat in a master chair with a small cigar burning away in a nearby ashtray.

Somehow, I find this very odd in its own right, I always envision captain with a dagger* in one hand and band-aid in the other.

* For all the guests.