Beer may lose its fizz as CO2 supplies go flat during pandemic

[Surelynot]

5 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

open a bottle of chang and leave it outside the fridge overnight

Nice try. Just doesn't seem to work with lager, which is what Singha, Chang etc are. Lager does have to be cold and moderately fizzy. Proper beer, no. But thanks for the suggestion.

[Captain Monday]

9 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

open a bottle of chang and leave it outside the fridge overnight

Still won't be Hoppy!

 

[cyril sneer]

14 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Nice try. Just doesn't seem to work with lager, which is what Singha, Chang etc are. Lager does have to be cold and moderately fizzy. Proper beer, no. But thanks for the suggestion.

Yes I wasn’t being serious

[Surelynot]

2 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

Yes I wasn’t being serious

To be fair, I was/am tempted to try it now.

[Bluespunk]

53 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:

Still won't be Hoppy!

 

Jump around on one leg while drinking, gives you a hoppy experience of sorts...

[natway09]

Guinness is pumped with nitrogen.

Good breweries create their own C02 anyway.

Problem will be softdrinks & really flat tonic I can handle with my gin 555

 

[Burma Bill]

4 hours ago, TheDark said:

This is a good example how one thing leads to another and then another in the high efficiency world. 

 

Fortunately for us, who live in Thailand, this is not a problem as we can not buy our beers anyway ????

 

Fortunately for us in Cambodia, this is not a problem as we CAN still buy beer, mainly in bottles and cans!!

[digger70]

One can Brew beer and be very fizzy. One doesn't need CO2. Brewed a good beer many times in AUS . Just have to take care not to Overdo it with the sugar when Bottling. Booooom  

[mrfill]

26 minutes ago, natway09 said:

Guinness is pumped with nitrogen.

Good breweries create their own C02 anyway.

Problem will be softdrinks & really flat tonic I can handle with my gin 555

 

Guinness is pumped with a mix of nitrogen and CO2 (30/70 mix) as are all the so-called 'smooth' 'beers'. Breweries do not create their own CO2 because that is used in dispensing and brewers just supply the product. Specialist companies produce and bottle the gases used for dispensing. Distributors usually supply a number of keg beers and the gases needed to pump them.

Real ale is usually served by a hand pump which uses air to move the liquid, rather than the poisonous gas used in fizzy beers which affects the taste. Bubbling CO2 through water creates carbolic acid (H2CO3) which doesn't belong in beer.

[J Town]

3 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Good. Proper beer should be flat, warm and very hoppy. 

Just like your name indicates - Surely not! ????

[J Town]

Is it legal to brew your own in Thailand? I mean, they sell kits on Lazada.

[johng]

1 minute ago, J Town said:

Is it legal to brew your own in Thailand?

No, sadly it is illegal.

Edited April 19, 2020 by johng

[Forethat]

4 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Good. Proper beer should be flat, warm and very hoppy. 

Presumably, you mean "Proper Ale". We are in total agreement.

[RocketDog]

4 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

If one takes the fizz out of US beer what is left?

Dishwater 

[RocketDog]

Beer without fizz? 

A mans gotta do what a man's gotta do, 

[Grumpy John]

There's a ready source of CO2 for recharging flat beer on you all the time.  Sure there are a few other gases as well but you don't throw the buckets of water overboard when your removing bilge water, right?  Every time you pass wind there is some CO2 in the....wind!

 

As I am not a beer drinker I'll leave it to you guys to come up with a working solution to putting the re-entry CO2 to good use.  When you find the solution you can share among yourselves....preferably!

[RocketDog]

18 minutes ago, johng said:

No, sadly it is illegal.

Many things are illegal here and many laws openly flouted. 

 

I met a farang guy here making pineapple beer! 

[tifino]

... for how ever long that polititians are still alive - there will be CO2 

[transam]

3 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Wow! This is really an important part of everything happening in the world right now! I have an even better one. I forgot where I put my blue pencil yesterday. Can´t the whole country help me to look for it?

Don't you ever stop complaining about anything not in your "box"......Very tiresome..????

[J Town]

Just now, transam said:

Don't you ever stop complaining about anything not in your "box"......Very tiresome..????

I've been "timed out," had my posts removed by admins - it's refreshing to have a light, happy topic for a change.

[khunken]

As a renowned (amongst my friends) beer brewer in a certain dry country, you don't need co2 to put the fizz in beer, you just add a pinch of sugar before bottling and allow a week or so (depending on desperation to taste it) for secondary fermentation.

[rbkk]

4 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

If one takes the fizz out of US beer what is left?

Reminds me of an oldie but goodie. 'Stop taking the <deleted> out of Watney's; it needs all the flavour it can get!.......(perhaps British idioms don't translate well?)

Edited April 19, 2020 by rbkk

[rudi49jr]

4 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

If one takes the fizz out of US beer what is left?

You do know that old Monty Python joke, right? Why is drinking American beer like making love in a canoe? Because it’s f******* close to water.

[transam]

5 minutes ago, rbkk said:

Reminds me of an oldie but goodie. 'Stop taking the <deleted> out of Watney's; it needs all the flavour it can get!.......(perhaps British idioms don't translate well?)

Back home we would call USA beer.... "Gnats p_ss"........????

[rbkk]

The best joke about Fosters Beer is that other countries buy it!

[Lacessit]

5 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Good. Proper beer should be flat, warm and very hoppy. 

You're British, yes?

[Jip99]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

You're British, yes?

 

 

 

..... and you, obviously not.

 

 

A fan of gaseous cat's p!ss suggests non-European.

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

 

..... and you, obviously not.

 

 

A fan of gaseous cat's p!ss suggests non-European.

Australians drink their beer cold. We live in a hot climate. On the other hand, Brits need every bit of warmth they can get.

[kingdong]

Flat beer and flat chested b\he pa that's is finished,the end is nigh.

[Jip99]

9 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Australians drink their beer cold. We live in a hot climate. On the other hand, Brits need every bit of warmth they can get.

 

 

You lost credibility when you started exporting XXXX   ????