Stout actually. I got a four pack of Guinness cans that has the new “floating draught system.” A little plastic call in the can filled with CO2 and nitrogen. According to the Guinness website, http://www.guinness.ie/ it releases the gas when the can is opened and gently spins to make for a smoother and creamier taste. Damnned if it doesn’t work too. This is the smoothest pint of Guinness I’ve ever had. Every bit as smooth as Young’s oeatmeal stout.
How long before one of those things f’s up and burns someone’s mouth, or worse?
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I think it’s nitrogen. Basically harmless if filtered through the beer.
Doesn’t the bottled Guiness suck??? I still drink it for the taste, but it certainly doesn’t have the texture of real Guiness.
So let me get this straight…
There’s a “ball” which releases either CO2 and/or N2 into the beer. The ball spins “gently” stirring the draught.
Forgive me, but I don’t want a whiring, gas-spewing orb in my brew.
Pouring it into a nice pint glass should give the brew enough of a stir for most imbibers. For those who insist on a true draught pint, may I suggest going to a true pub w/Guinness on tap.
Also try Yuengling’s Black and Tan in bottles. Nearest to draught taste as I have found.
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So let me get this straight…
There’s a “ball” which releases either CO2 and/or N2 into the beer. The ball spins “gently” stirring the draught.
Forgive me, but I don’t want a whiring, gas-spewing orb in my brew.
Pouring it into a nice pint glass should give the brew enough of a stir for most imbibers. For those who insist on a true draught pint, may I suggest going to a true pub w/Guinness on tap.
Also try Yuengling’s Black and Tan in bottles. Nearest to draught taste as I have found.
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Chief, I avoided canned beer for years (when I could - when you’re at the beach you take what you can get), but the canned Guinness stout really beats the bottled variety.
It’s worth noting that the bottled variety and the draughtflow-canned variety are in fact two different beers.
If you read the label on the bottled kind, you’ll note that it’s called “Extra Stout.” This beer is brewed to a higher gravity and thus a higher strength than the “regular” stout. I like the Extra Stout better, as it’s not so dry as the canned, and seems to me to have more flavor and better balance.
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Chief, the point of the draughtflow widget is that it physically replicates the tap in a can.
In a pub, Guinness in the keg is served on Nitrogen pressure rather than CO2 pressure. Because nitrogen is much less soluble in beer than CO2 is, higher pressures are used. In order to keep the beer from shooting all over the place at the tap as a result of these high pressures, the tap is fitted with a “sparkler,” which is essentially a metal plate with small holes in it through which the beer is forced on the way to your glass. The turbulence generated by the passage through these small holes knocks most of the carbonation out of the beer, and generates zillions on tiny bubbles which form the creamy head. As the beer exits the tap, it is actually mostly foam, which settles in the glass, making the psychedelic “settling” effect we all have gazed at in drunken wonder. Eventually, you end up with a tan head of miniscule bubbles on top of a glass of nearly-flat black beer.
Now, buy some Guinness in cans, drink the beer, and cut or tear open one of the empties to inspect the widget. Look at the top, and you’ll see a tiny pinhole. As the beer in canned, some of the beer is forced under pressure into the widget. When you open the can, releasing the pressure, the trapped beer squirts out the hole just as it squirts through the holes in the sparkler’s plate, creating a very similar set of a zillion bubbles, and a similar head.
For those that don’t like Guinness (for whatever reason), you can also buy Murphy’s and Boddington’s in the same “widgeted” cans. Yep, same creamy head.
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