The unsophisticated Ritz cracker guy is back.

Now I do have a good question. Feel free to degrade me if you will.

As I have 1000 times before, I poured a glass of Guinness Draught into a
thick stout glass. The carbonation bubbles retreat downward instead of
up??? It must be because of the CO2 capsule. I wonder it the same thing
happens on tap. I have simply never noticed.

At the risk of seeming ignorant among you experts, does anyone know why
this is?

Jim

Jim Wild wrote:

As I have 1000 times before, I poured a glass of Guinness Draught into a
thick stout glass. The carbonation bubbles retreat downward instead of
up???

http://www.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/guinness/


Feel free to degrade me if you will.

OK. http://tinyurl.com/2rfwr

As I have 1000 times before, I poured a glass of Guinness Draught into a
thick stout glass. The carbonation bubbles retreat downward instead of
up??? It must be because of the CO2 capsule. I wonder it the same thing
happens on tap. I have simply never noticed.

The "capsule" is not plain CO2, it is a carbon dioxide / nitrogen mix:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/guinness/why.html

Jim,

This happens in all good Guinness. It's the gas mix. Be careful when buying
Guinness as you may find out you're drinking CANADIAN Guinness !!!! Seems as
though, at least in these parts, the only real Guinness is the one with the
widget. Most of it is bottled in CANADA !!! Read the labels !

Ed


"Jim Wild" wrote in message
...
The unsophisticated Ritz cracker guy is back.

Now I do have a good question. Feel free to degrade me if you will.

As I have 1000 times before, I poured a glass of Guinness Draught into a
thick stout glass. The carbonation bubbles retreat downward instead of
up??? It must be because of the CO2 capsule. I wonder it the same thing
happens on tap. I have simply never noticed.

At the risk of seeming ignorant among you experts, does anyone know why
this is?

Jim

"Randal" wrote in message
As I have 1000 times before, I poured a glass of Guinness Draught into a
thick stout glass. The carbonation bubbles retreat downward instead of
up??? It must be because of the CO2 capsule. I wonder it the same thing
happens on tap. I have simply never noticed.

The "capsule" is not plain CO2, it is a carbon dioxide / nitrogen mix:

Not to be a prick, but...the "capsule" is neither. It does not have anything
different in it than in the bottle; it equalizes in pressure with the
bottle; it is not "charged" with gas. All the widget does is release the
pressure from the gas inside the widget...sloooooowly and with shearing
pressure.

--
Lew Bryson

"As for talking shit in this NG, Lew, you're the undisputed king, and
that's no SHITE." -- Bob Skilnik, 1/31/02

www.lewbryson.com

Not to be a prick, but...the "capsule" is neither. It does not have anything
different in it than in the bottle; it equalizes in pressure with the
bottle; it is not "charged" with gas. All the widget does is release the
pressure from the gas inside the widget...sloooooowly and with shearing
pressure.

Do you mean the "Rocket Widget" in the bottle, or the little tab thingy
on the bottom of the cans? I thought the OP was referring to the
draught flow cans which I though did have some sort of packet of
beergas or something. The rocket widget is just something to facilitate
drinking straight from the bottle right? Curses! Now I must go and
google...

_Randal

"Randal" wrote in message
Not to be a prick, but...the "capsule" is neither. It does not have
anything
different in it than in the bottle; it equalizes in pressure with the
bottle; it is not "charged" with gas. All the widget does is release the
pressure from the gas inside the widget...sloooooowly and with shearing
pressure.

Do you mean the "Rocket Widget" in the bottle, or the little tab thingy
on the bottom of the cans? I thought the OP was referring to the
draught flow cans which I though did have some sort of packet of
beergas or something. The rocket widget is just something to facilitate
drinking straight from the bottle right? Curses! Now I must go and
google...

Both of them work that way. They're strictly mechanical; no extra gas added.
Brilliantly simple, really.

--
Lew Bryson

"As for talking shit in this NG, Lew, you're the undisputed king, and
that's no SHITE." -- Bob Skilnik, 1/31/02

www.lewbryson.com

Lew Bryson wrote:
Both of them work that way. They're strictly mechanical; no extra gas added.
Brilliantly simple, really.

Brilliant!

(Sorry.)
--
Joel Plutchak "Prescriptive lexicographers enjoy being grumpy.
They spend a lot of time denouncing words and
explaining what the rules used to be."
- Richard Bready, Encarta

Guiness now made in Canada? Brilliant!
There goes another good beer ruined by Canadian production. Mark

finalquest wrote:
Be careful when buying
Guinness as you may find out you're drinking CANADIAN Guinness !!!! Seems as
though, at least in these parts, the only real Guinness is the one with the
widget. Most of it is bottled in CANADA !!! Read the labels !

As has been explained dozens of times, there is no one "Guinness".
Guinness makes a number of different stouts- the number 17 sticks in my
mind- in breweries around the world- (including even, for a brief time
in the 1950's, in the US).

The Guinness Extra Stout sold in bottles in the US is brewed in Canada
by Labatt. "Most" Guinness in the US *isn't* from Canada, for the
kegged, bottled & canned Draught Stout is still coming from Ireland.