I bought a six pack of Guiness Draught

and was drinking one, and at the bottom is this plastic thingy.

What's up with that?

Ask Fenris what it's for. :D

where is Fenris????

PAGING FENRIS!!!!!!

Gives the beer it's frothy head! :D

... it means that it'll keep the drink to taste like ass.

</(50%baiting + 50% continental arrogance)>

Celts and vikings built Ireland :)

But the Guinness for the US market is AFAIR brewed in the US... ;-)

OK, I admit: cheap attempt of a safe.

I think it's called the widget. Ahh the black stuff... is AWFUL, I
am Irish but I prefer American beer :D

can hardly be called that in many cases. Most hardly qualify being called a Pilsner.

Sam Adams is one of the few American beers that I really enjoy. Give me a good Negra Modelo, or a Guinness Draught.

Was it John Cleese who said that?

Brilliant! Sorry, couldn't resist. And what the heck is the plastic thingy? Don't know. Haven't had a Guinness for a while.

It provides the carbonation to your guinness.

http://home.howstuffworks.com/question446.htm

Mmmmmmmm, Guinness! :beer:

Why not the eight pack?

Taught to me by an Irish friend.
(That capsule is what gives it the proper head, I think.)
Pop the top and pour the whole thing into a tall glass.
Go take a whiz.
Have a smoke.
Buy some "crisps". (potato chips)
Do your nails.
When that 1+ inch of foam has settled down to about 1/8th of an inch, take a sip. I swear to god it's an entirely different (better) beverage.

He also says canned Guiness is uniform in quality all over the world and the closest to what he gets in his home pub.

The head on a Guinness is nasty. Once you get past it, the beer itself is actually pretty good.

The cans are definitely better than bottles if you have a pint glass available...

yummy
:toast:

have fun :P

It must be drunk alone (not with food) but with friends. I am envious.

A good steak or prime rib.

now that you guys have THOROUGHLY hijacked my thread, can anyone help with the dishwasher?

It's overflowing -- I had a new garbage disposal installed yesterday.

Could that be the culprit?

gonna try again. Thanks.

that leads from the disposal to the drain that emptys the dishwasher. There must be something there that is clogging the system.

this shit is all Greek to me.

Have to wait until I hear from him.

Thanks.

Just bring me the Irish Cream and keep it coming

It's creamy

I bet it's not sweet

But not a sugary one.

One of these days

licorice, and then they get slapped by yours truly, because the LAST thing it tastes like is licorice

From my on-line reading I learned that the secret of Guinness's creamy mouthfeel, as the taste experts somewhat indelicately put it, is a mix of nitrogen and carbon dioxide rather than pure CO2 as the bubblizing ingredient. Nitrogen bubbles are much smaller than CO2 bubbles, a mere 50 microns in diameter, and produce a nice smooth head. But nitrogen doesn't produce bubbles as spontaneously as CO2. At the corner tap they deal with this by using a special nozzle that aerates the stout
with nitrogen as it's poured. In packaged goods that's not possible, so for a long time they were stuck with pure carbon dioxide. But science marches on. Using brain cells that might have solved the third-world debt crisis, a couple engineering types invented a little plastic device, known in brewing circles as a "widget," that's placed in each can (not bottle) of Guinness Draught. When you pop the top and pour, the pressure in the can drops to ambient, stout squirts out of the widget, and nitrogen is liberated from solution and aerates the exiting beverage. Result: nitrogen microbubbles galore, same as if the pouring were done by your local barkeep.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/000526.html

What do you recommend?