Horse refuses at the first fence!

[Hughtheboatman]

Hi again. I'm about to start a vintage wine kit—a Vineco Californian Connoisseur, where the concentrate arrives in a polythene bladder. Trouble is, I can't get the cap off! It won't unscrew, and I can't pry it off. As a retired engineer, I am perhaps overthinking the problem and should just stab the thing, but before I do, I thought I'd ask here first.
Thanks in advance. H

 

[Larse]

Here you go, nothing like a video to show you how to do it.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

All the kits i have made that have a bag inside have said to cut the corner off.

 

[Hughtheboatman]

Here you go, nothing like a video to show you how to do it.

Thank you, Larse. I guess I wasn't trying hard enough. Now I just have to hope that the Best Before Jan 2016 label can be safely ignored. The yeast even rehydrated, to my amazement.

 

[Hughtheboatman]

All the kits i have made that have a bag inside have said to cut the corner off.

Thanks, C_T. I'm sure that would have worked, too :-)

 

[MashBag]

Cripes I would have some yeast on standby

 

[Larse]

Thank you, Larse. I guess I wasn't trying hard enough. Now I just have to hope that the Best Before Jan 2016 label can be safely ignored. The yeast even rehydrated, to my amazement.

No problem. I'm sure the law of the lever would have occurred to an engineer sooner or later.

 

[Hughtheboatman]

No problem. I'm sure the law of the lever would have occurred to an engineer sooner or later.

It was the fulcrum that was evading me ;-)

 

[Hughtheboatman]

It was the fulcrum that was evading me ;-)