Cardinal yellow plastic bottle opener (wide handle, blue paint) (Ernst)

## Cardinal

View from the front with the logo

View from the backside with the word "beer" in four languages

Bottle opener with wide yellow plastic handle, blue colored **Cardinal** logo on the front and the word "**beer**" in four different languages – French, English, Italian and German – on the backside.

The logo of the company that produced the opener, the kitchenware and household items producer **Ernst** also appears on the neck of the opener.

## Gallery

We have two quite similar openers in our collection, both with yellow plastic handle and almost identical design: one with thin handle and blue paint, the other one with wider handle and green paint.

Comparison of the three Cardinal openers
## Trivia

" *In 1788,* François Piller*, owner of the “*Zum Lachs*” (meaning "*to the salmons*") inn, located near the Porte de Berne in Friborg, decides to build a brewery for his son, a recently graduated Bavarian master brewer. Beginning with 1802 the small company in Friborg changed owners several times until 1877, before being taken over by* Paul-Alcide Blancpain*, a descendant of the Jura watchmaking family.*

*The successful commercial development of the brewery required its relocation from the old town of Friborg. The brewery invests in a site near the station, without ever interrupting its production. In the meantime, Cardinal beer had become a real institution, an element of the Friborg identity.*

*The Brasserie du Cardinal, in cooperation with other regional breweries, decides to found the **Sibra Holding** in 1970. Cardinal is thus transformed into a national brand, which is also exported to the USA. Due to the general decline in beer consumption, the crisis of the 1960s and the breakthrough of foreign beers, Sibra Holding is moving towards an export and diversification strategy. In 1996 **Feldschlösschen-Hürlimann-Holding** takes over SIBRA Holding, which also includes the Cardinal Brewery.* "

- from the *History* page of the Cardinal website (French and German)

Feldschlösschen Brewery, situated in Rheinfelden, is the biggest brewery in Switzerland and was founded in 1876. It was bought by Carlsberg in 2000. The brewery is in the shape of a castle with Feldschlösschen meaning "*small castle in the fields*" in German.

**Carlsberg A/S** is a Danish multinational brewer. Founded in 1847 by *J. C. Jacobsen*, the company's headquarters is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since Jacobsen's death in 1887, the majority owner of the company has been the Carlsberg Foundation. The company's flagship brand is Carlsberg (named after Jacobsen's son Carl). Other brands include Tuborg, Kronenbourg, Somersby cider, Neptun, Russia's best-selling beer Baltika, Belgian Grimbergen, and more than 500 local beers. The company employs around 41,000 people, primarily located in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia.

## See also

* Cardinal Brewery (Wikipedia)
* Cardinal website (French and German)
* Feldschlössen Brewery website
* Carlsberg website
* Cardinal yellow plastic bottle opener (wide handle, green paint) (Ernst)
* Cardinal yellow plastic bottle opener (thin handle, blue paint) (Ernst)
* Cardinal metal bottle opener (Ernst)
* Cardinal beer bottle shaped plastic bottle opener
* Other bottle openers produced by Ernst in our collection