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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Beer Head

Jason was opening up a bottle of Guinness tonight and asked, "Why is there a ball in Guinness?" I had my computer open so the first thing I did was Google it. 


The answer: 
"If you are talking about the small plastic ball, it's called a 'Widget'. It's a small ball that is full of nitrogen and is used to keep a good head on the beer."


My first thought, "this has to be somebodies idea of joke!" Then Brett proceeded tell me that the foam on beer is called the head. Of course this then led to Brett and Jason making comments like, "Can you really have bad head?" ......and we'll leave it at that.  But yeah now everyone has been educated on beer head :o)

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