Trump, you evil bastard give us back our CO2 you took away!
Posted on 06/20/2018 4:29:44 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group
LONDON (AP) — No beer at this time of year?
A British trade group says there’s a shortage of carbon dioxide in Northern Europe, sparking fears that drinks may lack fizz just as thirsty soccer fans fill pubs for the World Cup.
Gavin Partington, director-general of the British Soft Drinks Association, says the shortage is due to the closure of several production sites for various reasons, including seasonal maintenance. But industry publication Gasworld says the situation is worse this year because normal maintenance has coincided with technical issues at chemical plants that also produce carbon dioxide.
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I love Guinness.
When I was really into horses and reading a lot about them, I recall reading that the fancy racehorses in Ireland routinely got a bottle of it in their mash. Don’t know if it’s true, but sounds neat.
(Too much Guinness can do a number on human internals, though!)
True, but the article makes no such distinction. I doubt AP knows the difference.
Well, it was from London, and maybe it’s common knowledge there in Pub World.
But they could have explained it better for Wider World.
One beer? Imma need at least 4.
I was reading that when it was still called The Monthly Flatulence.
No, it was President Trump's fault. His tariffs prompted the EU to quit importing CO2 from America. Because he does not believe in man made global warming, and has refused to accept the Paris Accord on global warming he has made America the world's largest producers of CO2. In the minds of the EU elites this is a win win for the EU members, and puts President Trump in his place on both issues. 8>) Yes I am being sardonic.
Trump, you evil bastard give us back our CO2 you took away!
That is one way to “condition” beer and give it fizz. Add a little sugar when it is bottled and the remaining yeast will eat the sugar and nicely pressurize the bottle and give the beer its fizz and head.
But then the bottle will have a thin layer of spent yeast on the bottom and most brewers don’t want that.
Professionally made beer is usually micro-filtered and there is (virtually) no yeast left, so pressurized CO2 is used instead to provide fizz.
The good “real/craft beer/ale” spots in the UK still use an old-fashioned pump system. No CO2 tanks involved.
Cask beer and ale is pumped. But the story is about keg beer which isn't. Long ago, some beers were sold in kegs that could be gravity fed. I recall the galvanized ice tubs with a hole cut near the bottom for the gravity tap. A relief valve on top let in air.
8>) Good one.
They could always use carbon monoxide to fill in the needed gas.
I agree. I’ve made a few thousand gallons of beer, and you don’t have to add CO2
Yea, CO2 is used to pressurize the kegs.
Cask beer and ale is pumped. But the story is about keg beer which isn't. Long ago, some beers were sold in kegs that could be gravity fed. I recall the galvanized ice tubs with a hole cut near the bottom for the gravity tap. A relief valve on top let in air.
I know, but the point I was trying to make is that if the cheap keg stuff gets rare due to less CO2, then the good craft stuff is still around...:^)
When I was really into horses and reading a lot about them, I recall reading that the fancy racehorses in Ireland routinely got a bottle of it in their mash. Don’t know if it’s true, but sounds neat.
(Too much Guinness can do a number on human internals, though!)
I remember it being the case for humans in the UK in the 60’s, and found this on-line -
Decades ago, in England, post-operative patients used to be given Guinness, as were blood donors, based on the belief that it was high in iron.
Pregnant women and nursing mothers were at one stage advised to drink Guinness - the present advice is against this.
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