Our mission to enhance the beer-drinking experience began in 1997 when Blaize first started hand-making Capcatcher Bottle Openers and selling them at street fairs and beer festivals all along the East Coast. At the time, Blaize owned an oyster boat and spent most of the year hauling oysters out of Long Island Sound. Because the deck of an oyster boat is no place for stray bottle caps, he developed a pouched bottle opener to catch the bottle caps before they "hit the deck." Thus the Capcatcher Bottle Opener was born.

Each oystering season, as the Capcatcher proved its worth time and time again, Blaize thought of ways to make it even better. Each summer he'd return to the street fairs with improvements from the year before. First he added a magnet to hold the Capcatcher right to the refrigerator. Then he offered a choice of wood types and a leather or clear vinyl pouch (better for boats!) Finally he started personalizing the metal hood of the bottle opener.

By this point, the Capcatcher Bottle Opener had become a popular groomsmen gift, and orders for personalized bottle openers were continuing beyond the summer months. It proved quite challenging to make Capcatchers with one hand and haul oysters with the other, so Blaize said farewell to a career at sea and made catching bottle caps a year-round job. Of course this decision wasn't an easy one--So as a tribute to the history of Capcatchers, we start and end every summer looking out at the ocean with a plate full of oysters on the half shell and an ice cold bottle of beer... We highly recommend you do the same!