Re: Beer Head Additives

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 06:31 6/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Fredrick Rea O'Keefe wrote:
> >
> > > Rumor has it that New York's Ballentine Beer used to add "soap" to their
> > > brew to make a longer lasting head - their claim to fame. (Or was it
> > > Rheingold?)

>  According to an old source at Dow Chemical, a favorite, common additive
> to American beers to stabilize the head, is methoxy cellulose .. a polymer
> surfactant that alters the surface tension and stabilizes the foam.
>
> John N. Cooper

I seem to recall that the rich stable textured head on foam fire extinguisher
agent is (was?) produced by licorice extract.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK