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- From: elwin@gamma.phys.clemson.edu (Lawrence E. Brown)
- Subject: Re: Black and Tan
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.153704.7389@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:37:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.232758.21626@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, kyle@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Kyle Wohlmut) writes:
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- >>
- >>i bet it's the nitrogen.
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- >How many times can we go through this? It has nothing to do with any
- >mythical 'nitrogen' that may be present, it's the bubbles in the
- >just-poured draft Guinness that initially keep it afloat. That's why,
- >as a previous poster pointed out, a good barman can just pull the
- >Guinness *plop!* into the beer, no spoon or nothing, and create a
- >perfect one. You too can do this in the privacy of your own home if
- >you use a just-opened can of 'Pub Draught Guinness,' which has no
- >nitrogen in it BTW. In fact, don't even buy Guinness in bottles
- >anymore, there's just no reason! Draught cans are light-years beyond
- >any of the sludge that comes out of those bottles! End of story!
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- Um, er,... aren't those the cans that have the little spinning
- "bobo" in them that emits NITROGEN bubbles to match the draught
- Guinness that you get in bars which is also dispensed using
- pressurized NITROGEN? One more time, Nitrogen weighs less than
- CO2 and has very different surface chemsitry.
- That's why draught Guiness has those little tiny BUBBLES. So,
- now we need someone who can buy the canned Guiness (we don't get
- it here yet) and the bottled stuff to try them side by side and
- tell us if it really is the bubbles, I can't see how it would
- work myself but I've been wrong a couple of times before :).
- Any volunteers?
-
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- Larry Brown "Philip K. Dick is dead, alas
- elwin@gamma.phys.clemson.edu Let's all queue up to kick God's ass"
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