Getting Your Beer to the Top

"Scientists from Spain and Australia made the discovery and explained that protein from the barley and yeast used to make beer contribute to the quality of its foam."

Now there is an assignment you can really love.

Interesting.... WE make beer in certain part of the desert. Once opened, and the brew kits are at best unpredictable, the head varies.

So one of our brighter sparks, thought that as Guinness uses ultrasonics to give its beer that frothy look, he'd try it. So now every glass we pour get a 3 second blast in what was an ultrasonic nib cleaner for the drafting department.

Just thought I'd share!!

"...Guinness uses ultrasonics to give its beer that frothy look..."

I'm wondering at what step in the brewing process they use ultrasonics. I'm guessing they weren't using ultrasonics back in 1759.

As for the famous frothy head, that is due to nitrogen gas (in most of its variants; some versions use CO2).

Btw - just my own experience from my recent trip to Ireland and England, I noticed in some pubs the Guiness tasted a bit watery compared to other pubs, and the Guiness here in Georgia tastes better than in those pubs where it tasted watery.

They bottle the beer with no gas, ship it, then once the bottle or tin is opened and poured, the glass and contents are placed on a ultrasonic pad and zapped.

Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks
the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer
eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.

That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.......

No, you only feel smarter, because it kills off your better brain cells, and now the slow brains cells that are left only thinks they are smarter, because the competition has been killed off.

Remember, if you want to look smart, surround yourself with a bunch of clowns.

So explain how it makes women look good.

Easy...

The difference between a dog and a fox is about 8 pints of strong beer!!

Not only smarter, but I've seen how beer makes some people think they have secret Ninja Powers. They usually get their *ss whooped.

I used to brew my own beer many years ago. I remember getting interrupted by a phone call just as I was adding the sugar. By the time the call was finished, I had COMPLETELY forgotten how many cups I'd already added. I added three more cups when I only needed one. Resultant brew was nuclear.

When I was younger, we use to make allot of wine.......I'm sure we surpassed the legal requirement.

Concord Grape, other grapes I don't know the name, Choke Cherry, Dandelion wine.....

Anyways we had crocks all over the house as they fermented.... you could almost get a buzz just being there?

Anyways when I was about 8 years old, we had some crocks in front of our refrigerator door.

I opened the frig door in to get a bottle of soda, (Double Cola) it was already opened and the cap was put back on. and as I pulled it out I dropped it in the crock, and by the time I fished it out, there was only about on inch left as it fizzed in the batch.

Did I catch hell from mostly my brothers for wrecking the batch that had concord grape wine in it, I received allot of criticism

• we can dump that batch out thanks to you.
• Now that its ruined, You'll end up drinking by yourself, I hope your happy.

I had a lot of teasing. Well as it turned out, that was one of the best tasting wine we made, ^{(Yes, I was only 8 years olds and already a wine connoisseur, you learn young on a farm)} and when I brought it up, that I was the one that was suppose to drink it, because I ruined it. That was quickly shot down.

Don't know if it was some of the carbonation but I'm sure the extra shot of sugar at just the right time helped.

Cold Fusion?

The cap was a rocket and it fused itself to the ceiling. The accompanying geyser was very impressive.

"When the researchers deleted the CFG1 gene, the foam on the resultant beer was greatly reduced--great news for beer drinkers who view a big foam head as a waste of space in the glass where beer could go." I don't really think that should be necessary as if you pour a draft beer correctly (tilting the glass until you almost reach the top as seen in the image) you reduce the foam anyway getting the right amount of beer vs foam in the glass. This makes me want a nice cold beer.

didn't engineering student as a class project develop a type of vortex tap to poour a perfect glass of beer with just the right head/body mix.

I could be bias here, but it may have been from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

I think CR4 had a topic about it.

I found this link to Building a Better Glass of Beer

This is what I recalled.......http://www.turbotapusa.com/products/