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Photo via guinness facebook. Nitrogen is not absorbed into the beer nearly as well as carbon dioxide so even though a can of guinness may be at the same pressure as a can of lager it contains less co2 and is therefore less fizzy because the nitrogen makes up some of the pressure.

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Well tory of hobsons choice blog found out the answer.

Ball inside guinness can. Ever opened a can of guinness and noticed a strange rattling sound when you shake it. Basically the small plastic ball is called a widget. The plastic ball is the size of a ping pong ball but its much stronger.

I bought a can of guinness and after drinking it i heard something rolling in the can so i cut it open and found a white ball inside. The purpose of the widget is to release co2 from some of the beer in the can to create the head. Read pauls experience of guinness and other reviews on a spokesman said.

Produced by kevin reilly. Whats that ball doing in your can of guinness. 11 2011 youtube user jack deal posted a video about a curious ping pong sized ball floating in his can of guinness draught.

Guinness brewers first patented the idea of the widget in 1969 but it wasnt until 20 years later in 1989 when they released their first generation widget which was a flattened sphere that sat. It is meant to mimic the texture and head of guinness on tap. Guinness is canned with a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

But it has a purpose. See what is inside the guinness draught can widget after i cut it open. But how do you use a technology that was originally designed to allow the beer to be poured in pubs on draught to deliver the perfect guinness serve in a canthats where those little white balls that you find floating in your can come in.

Theres a foreign object in there. Original reporting by. The plastic widget was developed by guinness in 1969 to give their canned brews a silky creamy head.

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