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Re: Super Cold Beer!



William Beaty wrote:

For those who like to take things apart, buy a can of Guinness "draft
style" beer. (At least I think its Guinness that's the one.) Inside is a
little plastic chamber that sits on the bottom of the container. It
contains gas (CO2? Wouldn't have to be CO2 though.) When you pop the
tab, the chamber emits tiny bubbles, thus guaranteeing that a "head" will

I read somewhere that the gas in the capsule inside cans of Guinness is
nitrogen.
Ian Sefton (I.Sefton@physics.usyd.edu.au)
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Physics, SUPER Group
School of Physics A28
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA