WTF is shaking in my bottle of Guinness?

[New Earth]

This is my first time drinking it and there is something that makes a rattle noise in it :scared:

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. It's the bottled draft stuff.

Supposed to make it more like draft Guinness...though out of a bottle.

[yewberry]

2. Guinness

There's usually a plastic "float" in canned or bottled guinness--helps with the foam.

Don't worry and enjoy!

[JohnnyBoots]

3. Pour the next one in a pint glass, let it sit for five minutes

then your golden.

[brainshrub]

4. It's pure drinking pleasure.

Enjoy.

:toast:

[JohnnyBoots]

5. It's the best of Irish engineering

[NorCalDem]

6. It's called a Widget

and it's scientifically designed to control the flow of N2 into your beer as you tilt the bottle. The new Draught bottles are better from the bottle, don't pour it into a glass.

[New Earth]

7. thanks everyone

i thought i was going bonkers or something :crazy:

i assume this will get me nice and drunk, eh?

[yewberry]

8. Look out for the huge sugar rush.

That can hit pretty hard.

[New Earth]

10. ooo yippy

just what i need :bounce:

watch out DU Lounge, you might find some interesting postss from me tonight :blush:

[JohnnyBoots]

9. Only 3% alcohol I think. Trust the Canucks or Limeys for good

pints to get you D-U-N done quick.

[New Earth]

11. LOL

well i don't really want to be 'done' anytime soon....

i might add i've also got some Irish Creme waiting for me as well :9

[Pobeka]

12. Just back from Ireland. I like the bottle better than draught.

My wife and I both agreed the draught tasted a watery compared to what we get here in the non-draught bottles.

I have tried the fake draught cans here and in my opinion they also just suck.

And so I avoid the little marblely-sounding containers.

The one Murphey's we had was awesome. Anyone know of a source of Murphey's in the US?

Cheers

[JohnnyBoots]

13. Murphys is good, more like a porter in my opinion though

[tigereye]

38. hi JB

I see you have good taste in libations! :hi:

[New Earth]

14. well whatever it is

it might just beat my current favorite beer (Corona)

it does taste very good this stuff! w00t!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. "avoid the little marblely-sounding containers."

I had one six-pack of those. I didn't care for them at all.

In 1981, I was in Dublin and, of course, took the brewery tour. The Guinness you sample at the end is the best brew I've ever had.

[Chicago Democrat]

15. Its a widget, all british canned beer has it for some reason

It makes it creamy or something.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. Nitrogen capsule.... it's what makes the suds... not that I would

be familiar with such things....

[evlbstrd]

18. We call them Eyeballs.

Brilliant!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

20. Brilliant!

[Misunderestimator]

21. Brilliant!

[CatWoman]

19. I'm having the draught in the can

and it has those little plastic peices in them as well.

[New Earth]

22. mine is in the bottle

and i'm only just finishing my second one and i'm already feeling a little tipsy and having a hard time typing :bounce: :toast:

[JohnnyBoots]

23. No, worries - be safe tonight

[New Earth]

27. im at home

so i dont have to drive. just have to watch how much i drink so that i dont post ridiculous shit on certain people's myspace profiles :eyes:

[RushIsRot]

24. I always heard they were tampons...

:evilgrin:

[New Earth]

28. now that's just scary

:scared:

[CatWoman]

33. hey, you!!!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

25. They're the teeth of children

What do you think the tooth fairy does with them. Same for the thing that rattles inside spraypaint cans too.

[Quagmire05]

26. .

http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/guinness/BeerBubbles.mov

[progmom]

29. that sounds like an excellent idea!

i have some in the fridge! :hi:

[New Earth]

30. haha

w00t! cool, get drunk with me! i'm almost there.....on my 3rd Guinness, got a shitload left and some Bailey's Irish Creme :bounce:

[progmom]

31. my Bailey's went bad

x(

[New Earth]

32. awwww!

i'd give ya some of mine if you were closer :hug:

speaking of which, i think it's time for some of that good goodness :9

[Pobeka]

34. STOP THE PRESSES! Your Bailey's went bad?

I've never heard of such a thing!

I better check ours tonight. I suppose a couple of samples should be tried to make sure everything's okay dokay. ;)

[progmom]

36. yesh

it got all....lumpy. :scared:

[jmowreader]

35. It's a mouse

Return the bottle to the brewery and you get free beer for life, eh?

[Mutley]

37. I'm saving my Guinness virginity for when I go to Ireland.

I've never had an "American" Guinness because I've been told it's much better in Ireland, so I'm saving myself for that.

[Reverend_Smitty]

39. one night my friend and I just HAD to see what a widget looked like

so we decided to bust open a bottle and have a look. So we were out in his driveway at 2 in the morning trying to bust open a beer bottle without cutting ourselves. We got it after a few tries and to this day I still have that widget sitting on a shelf in my room. Ah the wonders of alcohol

[nickgutierrez]

40. I have to ask, now:

What is it?

[Reverend_Smitty]

41. it's a little rocket looking thing

that helps keep the bottled beer more like a draught beer
http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001458.php

[Maddy McCall]

44. The rest of the story?

What does it look like?

[Reverend_Smitty]

45. like a little white plastic rocket

here's the best looking picture I can find

[seemunkee]

42. Only two beers are injected with Nitrogen at the tap

Guiness and Boddingtons(as far as I know). It's what gives them that creamy head. the widgets are supposed to replicate the texture of the draft pour.

[leftofthedial]

43. It's a weapon of mass inebriation

also known as a nitrogen capsule

makes the guinness all foamy, like draft