Yohan doesn’t have a bottle opener at home. Because this 27-year-old from Montpellier has a gift: he opens his beers with whatever comes to hand. A stool, a pot of yogurt, a flip-flop, a poker chip, the profession of faith of a presidential candidate, a metro ticket or a car wheel. This astonishing ability earned him the star of all his aperitifs with friends. But not only: under the name of Frenchycaps, Yohan uncaps beers for nearly 400,000 subscribers, on TikTok.
“I have people who regularly recognize me in the street, and who come to see me with a beer so that I can open the door for them! “says Frenchycaps, to 20 minutes. This Tuesday evening, he pushes the cork a little further, by participating in France has an unbelievable talent, on M6. It was during his first parties, when he was a teenager, that the young man discovered this gift. “I was 14 or 15 years old, and, obviously, we never had a bottle opener, laughs Frenchycaps. We’ve all known that. The first few times, we use a lighter. We scratch our hands a little at first, then we get there. »
There are “five or six techniques” that are repeated
But Yoan, at aperitif time, realizes that, in the end, “anything that can help leverage can do the trick”, he smiles. He therefore begins, to the great surprise of his friends, to open binouses with heaps of objects. “One day, I said to myself: ‘Why won’t I post this on Tiktok, to show Internet users how it’s done?’ “recalls Yohan. Quickly, his funny project foams. And his many subscribers very quickly ask him to open beers with more and more unusual things. “I asked myself the question, for each type of object, which technique could work, confides the young man. That’s how I got better. »
There are, finally, “five or six techniques”, which are repeated, explains Yohan. Then it’s dexterity. “All that’s rigid is leverage. Then, everything wired, like earphones, laces or clothes, t-shirts, sweaters, we wrap it around the beer, and we yank it. When I develop a technique, it allows me to open beers with a lot of objects that look alike. However, Yohan has limits to his frothy delirium. “One day, I did it with the nail of one of my toes, it worked, but I hurt myself a little, remembers Frenchycaps. I won’t do it again! Or with my girlfriend’s hair. And she doesn’t want to anymore! »
There is another parameter to take into account when trying to open a beer “with anything and everything”: the degree of tightness of the capsule. Because, depending on the beer, “it’s different”, he notes. Frenchycaps is currently working on creating its own beer brand. And, on the capsules, he planned to indicate a degree of tightness, like the hints of peppers, on the sauces. “And there will be a QR code on the capsule, which will refer to an object with which you can open the bottle,” smiles the young man. This Tuesday evening, in France has an unbelievable talent, Frenchycaps will attempt to blow up the capsule with a CD. He is expected to try, on stage, to saber the beer, like a bottle of champagne. Impossible mission ? Answer this evening, on M6.