Beer Bubbles Really Do Sink

Galvatron writes "A group of researchers at Stanford have shown that, despite being lighter than the beer itself, bubbles can actually slide down the sides of glasses. So, if you see it happen, it's not just that you've had too much to drink. For a description of methodology and an explanation of why it works, see the article."

Comments

Oh come on

[Spruce Moose]

This story is just asking for a frosty piss joke to be made!

Re:Oh come on

[Almond Tree]

Did anyone else read, Beer Bubbles Really Do Stink?

Re:Oh come on

[ElizabethP]

No. However, my ex's beer belches were traumatizing.

Re:Oh come on

[slotis]

i did ;)

Re:Oh come on

[NonSequor]

I don't think the frosty piss thing can even be called a joke.

Re:Oh come on

[WierdMichael]

This is NOT news, Scientific American did an entire article on it months ago. It's just a temperature-differential driven flow - the beer near the edge of the glass warms and rises. The beer in the center sinks. In stout, where this occurs. is thick enough, and the bubbles are small and long-lived enough to be carriied with the flow. It doesn't happen in Lagers or moth Ales, just Porters and Stouts

Re:Oh come on

[Anonymous Coward]

I concur, what the hell is a frosty piss? I understand the origins of this term. What I do not understand is how people find it funny.

sliding down the glass....

[timelady]

odd, I've seen many a drunk sliding down the side of a glass...those pesky bubbles!

Re:sliding down the glass....

[laptop006]

*thinks back to LCA 2004 conference dinner* (Rusty, Linus etc. all a *little* too drunk, this would be why I have an OpenBSD shirt signed by Linus)

Yeah, sounds about right.

Re:sliding down the glass....

[timelady]

hey, remember linus signed some pretty odd things during LCA:)

Re:sliding down the glass....

[Hogwash McFly]

hey, remember linus signed some pretty odd things during LCA:)

Yeah, my wife still refuses to wash her left breast....

Re:sliding down the glass....

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, my wife still refuses to wash her left breast....

That's just because she lost the rag on a stick.

Old story?

[ltning]

Wasn't there a story on /. a few years ago about someone researching why the bubbles in Guinness were apparently sinking - with the conclusion that they are driven down by streams closer to the centre of the glass?

Re:Old story?

[ltning]

Found it here.

It's old :)

Re:Old story?

[ubera]

This one. The researchers here appear to be putting an academic imprimateur on the model discussed in 2000.

Re:Old story?

[halftrack]

Yes the very same science that they refer to in the article. Austrailian scientists with computer simulations. This however is the result of real-world experience and experiment. And they concluded the same.

Re:Old story?

[Jahf]

Interestingly, in Dublin drinking from a standard Guinness pint glass at a number of pubs, I never saw the bubbles do anything but rise to form a terrific head. I've only seen the downward bubbles in the Guinness pint (which is a pretty standard size and shape) in the States.

The Guinness in Dublin tasted better, too, and I'm not the only one that thinks so. The most common answer is that the Guinness in the States is brewed in the UK from inferior water and the Guinness in Dublin is brewed from a much better source.

Perhaps only "bad" Guinness has the properties needed to float bubbles down?

Re:Old story?

[JoshRoss]

And there was also this one.

Re:Old story?

[drwho]

Interestingly, in Dublin drinking from a standard Guinness pint glass at a number of pubs, I never saw the bubbles do anything but rise to form a terrific head. I've only seen the downward bubbles in the Guinness pint (which is a pretty standard size and shape) in the States.

I highly doubt it. In the US and Australia, beer tends to be served much colder than the standard 55 F, which would cause a greater temperature difference between the outside air and the beer, and a greater temperature difference in the glass, and cause a noticable flow.

Re:Old story?

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

If you're going to use fancy terms like 'imprimatur' you should spell them correctly. It's straight from Latin so doesn't have the 'francisized' ending.

Re:Old story?

[NickFitz]

I think you'll find that the Guinness in the States (and in the UK) is pasteurised, while that in the Republic of Ireland is normally still live - like the difference between Watney's Red Barrel and a real ale.

Whether I'm correct or not, I do know that virtually all the Guinness drunk in the UK is brewed at Park Royal in London, while the Republic of Ireland's Guinness is brewed in Dublin. The different waters would definitely have an effect on the flavour, although I doubt the water alone would make the bubbles behave differently :-)

Re:Old story?

[Jahf]

Yeah, I know, the water causing bubbles to act differently was a long shot.

You're probably right about the Irish version not being pasteurized, and so much the better. It definitely had a better and less metallic (only way I know to describe it) taste. And if I got some free cultures from it, it definitely didn't hurt (I brew my own concoctions, so they would have had plenty of company).

Combination of lack of pasteurization and better water makes a lot of sense on the taste bit. Strangely the Coca-cola tasted alot worse (almost like diet), so I'm thinking water was a strong player in both.

And I'd go back in a second ... it plain SUCKED having to fly out the day the St.Patty's celebrations started.

So

[riotstarter]

when you're high, can dogs really fly or is it just the weed?

Re:So

[Anonymous Coward]

Everything can fly, its the landing that's difficult.

Re:So

[Sqwubbsy]

Actually, the dog remains stationary, it's the rest of the planet that moves...

Re:So

[Moderation abuser]

No, they really can fly. Try it next time you're high, smuggle a dog up to the roof of your building and throw it off. It'll fly, you'll see.

Re:So

[yobbo]

Dogs can fly?

You really shouldn't believe a word they tell you.

Re:So

[Hobbex]

If dogs are flying, then that is not weed you are smoking... Tread carefully, but enjoy.

Re:So

[jcenters]

Sure dogs can fly. It's rather easy. All they have to do is fall and miss the ground!

Re:So

[DonnieD701]

It's not the landing that is difficult.. Most creatures just cannot handle the sudden stop at the end.. The stop normally brings on one of two conditions.. Concrete poisoning, or deceleration sickness..... BTW, first post...

Re:So

[sydb]

Welcome, but please note in future that the term 'first post' is reserved for the first post to a story, not an individual user's first post.

As for me, this is my 997th post. Three more posts and I kill myself.

Re:So

[caino59]

*note: no animals were harmed in the posting of this...uh..post.

Re:So

[Lord_Dweomer]

You think you can get those visuals with weed? Shit, get me a bag of what he's got.

Re:So

[Effofx]

I once had a German Shepard co-pilot for an American Airline flight I took to Hawaii.

Too much?

[Calren]

So, if you see it happen, it's not just that you've had too much to drink.

So do bubbles going around the glass mean I'm half-way there?

Re:Too much?

[Anonymous Coward]

"So, if you see it happen, it's not just that you've had too much to drink"

can it be both?????
cheers
cryogen

Re:Too much?

[SmackCrackandPot]

But are you North or South of the equator? That determines whether they go round clockwise or anti-clockwise.

Re:Too much?

[Calren]

Not exactly sure, I'll let you know when I sober up.

Nice article - but whatabout sharing the evidence?

[Jabes]

I have seen bubbles moving down at the edges of my Guinness. This latest "discovery" seems to be common sense to me, and is exactly how I have explained the phenomenem to other drinkers down the pub.

Shame I wasn't paid to do my "research", and that no-one would have listened to me because I didn't have a 750-frame-per-second video camera.

Now, this story would have been really interesting if it had a link to the videos of it happening 'cause it really is a sight to behold!

In Australia they also rise

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course it depends which way your head is up, or down - sometimes they go sideways in both directions.

Beer

[radiochild]

Not being a beer drinker I am not surprised, the bubbles are probably trying to drown themselves rather than taste that foul brew...

Re:Beer

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy christ-on-a-stick(R)!

Who let another mormon on the 'net?

C'mon! Which one of you?!

In other news..

[plams]

..women at the bar can really like you! If one of them is turned on by your presence it's not just that you've had too much to drink!

Re:In other news..

[mccalli]

If one of them is turned on by your presence it's not just that you've had too much to drink!

No. It's just that they've had too much to drink...

Cheers,
Ian

Our tax dollars...

[SisyphusShrugged]

Our tax dollars at work!

It appears that the same rib, in episode 34FGE, struck twice in row creates two different notes...are we supposed to believe this is some sort of magical rib!??!

Re:Our tax dollars...

[goatan]

Our tax dollars at work!

What's more this has been done 4 years ago more here

Re:Our tax dollars...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, this has only been simulated before (which they cite on their website). To my knowledge, nobody has filmed this with sufficient frame rate to experementally show the bubbles moving down. While it certainly looks like they move down, this could easily have been an optical illusion, similar to the way hubcaps sometimes look to be moving backwards when the car is moving forwards, especially when you see the black liquid moving down around the bubbles.

Legitimate scientific value

[TobiasSodergren]

"While the pair's finding will be invaluable to barroom betters across the globe it also has legitimate scientific value in the area of fluidized beds, the mixing of solid particles with liquids and gases, which has industrial and engineering applications."

It's amazing what people do come up with to get an excuse for drinking beer.

Re:Legitimate scientific value

[betelgeuse-4]

Since this phenomenom only lasts for a short period after the beer is poured, they must have had to pour a lot of beers to allow detailed analysis. It would have been a shame to let it go to waste wouldn't it?

Next we'll see an academic doing a research paper on the marketing techniques used by pr0n sites.

Re:Legitimate scientific value

[TobiasSodergren]

I'd be really impressed if they manage raise money from investors for the research.

It might ofcoruse help to introduce the investors to the results of the beer discovery, empirically and with enough samples to be on the statistical safe side, before signing the contracts.

Re:Legitimate scientific value

[way2trivial]

Um, no problem to find, take a look for "white paper" "marketing pornography" site:edu

apparently the winner in the "lets get sponsored to look at porn" contest was from the georgetown law review, it's titled "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Description, Short Stories, and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces, and Territories." from around 1995! but I can't find a copy of the actual piece, just places that refer to it.

Re:Legitimate scientific value

[Anonymous Coward]

It's amazing what people do come up with to get an excuse for drinking beer.

Yeah, Linus Torvalds went and created a whole new world movement just so people would buy him beer.

Re:Legitimate scientific value

[daniel_yokomiso]

Already done

Re:Legitimate scientific value

[HD Webdev]

It's amazing what people do come up with to get an excuse for drinking beer.

This might knock you off of a barstool: STUDY FINDS WOMEN WHO DRINK WAY MORE FUN TO STUDY

Bubbles in Beer in space

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder what happens to bubbles in space, if they are trying to go downswards they sure are going to get confused?

Maybe they go inwards and congregate at the centre in a matey sort of way.

Re:Bubbles in Beer in space

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Doing research on beer in space. Hmm,is it me, or are you trying to make science more attractive to youngsters?

Now if only I got funding for my research on saturday night related activities.

Re:Bubbles in Beer in space

[Bush Pig]

I seem to remember a thought experiment along these lines described in one of my home brewing books (one of Charlie Papazian's books, iirc).

Wasted Tax Payers Dollars

[fozzmeister]

I'm not saying that this is not valuable information, however if only they had googled before hand they would have noticed that this WAS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT IN 1998! see this story at http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/phys/liquids /p00053d.html

Re: Wasted Tax Payers Dollars

[bj8rn]

Well, the fact that beer bubbles sink was actually already known thousand of years ago. But it has to be "re-discovered" in every two years or so, otherwise the world would come to an end. And reporting this "discovery" in media is just a part of the ritual.

Re: Wasted Tax Payers Dollars

[Anonymous Coward]

> But it has to be "re-discovered" in every two
> years or so, otherwise the world would come to an
> end. And reporting this "discovery" in media is
> just a part of the ritual.

Yes, and we cannot fail, otherwise Cthulhu will be awoken by its long lost relatives Kang and Kodos. Together they will crush then enslave humanity.

In the name of all that's good, you have a duty to drink up and perform the bear ritual.

Beer warriors of the world, we salute you.

Re: Wasted Tax Payers Dollars

[Orne]

To be pedantic, during the middle ages the common thought was that the ancient cultures had learned everything there was to know, then the knowledge was lost with the fall of their cultures. The word "discover" is "dis-" (not) "cover" (as in hide) was coined to indicate that scientists were merely again finding what the golden age cultures had already found.

In this case, you have a liquid (beer) lightly saturated with gasses. Like crystals, the gasses collect on the impurities on the glass (notice when you drink soda, the bubbles always seem to form at the same spots), until you've reached a "critical mass" where the bubble can break its tension with the glass. The bubbles rise up the middle of the glass, inducing a current (similar to convection) which has a counter current going down the edges of the glass. The force of the current (down) is sometimes greater than the buoyancy (up) of the smaller bubbles, and they are drawn downwards towards the bottom of the glass. Now where's my money??

The camera...?

[jemnery]

I wanted to know more about the video camera after the throwaway line "750 frames per second" - wow!

Where's the video?

[Tweaker_Phreaker]

"So Andy got hold of a camera that takes 750 frames a second and recorded some rather gorgeous video clips of what was happening."

So quit hoggin' it and let us have some of that sweet sweet goodness.

Alcohol increases intelligence

[Anonymous Coward]

For any newbies: Apparantly your intelligence is increased by drinking alcohol, since it kills off your poor quality brain cells leaving more room for your high-powered brain cells.

So kids, if you want to pass your exams, sneak into Daddy's Spirits cabinet and have a swig before breakfast.

Re:Alcohol increases intelligence

[Cliffy03]

The Buffalo Theory.

The buffalo herds move only as fast as the slowest members. This leaves the slowest getting killed off first. This leaves the heard faster and stronger.

I knew it

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew I wasn't drunk!... nobody believed me! damn!

Time wasted?

[zaunuz]

People have been doing research for thousands of years, and most of the research have led to woudnerful discoveries, but.. to be honest, I cant see that this discovery can leed to any major breakthoughs. Not even minor ones.

Re:Time wasted?

[krymsin01]

You won't think that when you are imprisoned in a giant beer bubble and the only way to escape is to pop it on the toothpicks at the bottom of the glass.

Re:Time wasted?

[UnknowingFool]

I cant see that this discovery can leed to any major breakthoughs. Not even minor ones.

What these researchers have described is anomaly in gas-liquid mixing. In the field of chemical engineering, the mixing and flow properities of gas-liquid reactions are ongoing research subjects for the last several decades, particularly in fluidized bed reactors. Fluidized bed reactors are very important in the production of a wide variety of chemicals. While the test subject may have been fun for them to explore, it may hold clues into how gases and liquids mix in a reactor and this back-mixing may other researchers develop more accurate theories and simulations. These simulations then lead to better processes.

Neat.

[Ash87]

Now I have a new chat up line to use: hey babe, ever stop and think about bubbles moving down? Hello? You didn't finish your drink!

Re:Neat.

[Anonymous Coward]

Try this one: "How much? Ok, do you have change for a fifty?"

Works quite well, especially in the southern states.

that was useless

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah maaaaan, crap!
that sucks!

Turns out I've stopped drinking for no reason after all...

got time to catch up with now.
bid day ahead...

Hmm...

[natrius]

I had a class with this professor earlier this year. This really explains his teaching style... he must have done his beer "research" each day right before he lectured...

Video report about it

[tsager]

There's a video about it here: video/mov,4MB
Mentioned in news article from

Re:Video report about it

[TMB]

Unfortunately the MPEG compression makes it almost impossible to actually see the bubbles! Guess I'm going to have to go "experiment" on my own! ;-)

[TMB]

aussie, aussie, aussie, ...

[next1]

.. conducted the study after Australian researchers announced in 1999 that they had made a computer model showing it was theoretically possible for beer bubbles to fall down the side of a glass

trust it to be australians that worked that one out first.
something tells me that experiment was most likely conducted on a friday nite after a few beers at the lab.

Re:aussie, aussie, aussie, ...

[m1chael]

All that tax deductible beer. I'm sure all of it was used for scientific purposes ;)

Re:aussie, aussie, aussie, ...

[Anonymous Coward]

mmmmmmmmmmmm, tax deductible beer.

Never talk about beer on a Sunday!

[mgt]

Ouch, how smart is it to have an article about beer on a Sunday! ;)

Re:Never talk about beer on a Sunday!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's perfectly OK to talk about beer on a Sunday.

I was on vodka binge last night and just had a beer to get rid off the hangover.

Trust beer. Beer is your friend.

Video of this man & glasses of foaming Guinnes

[supertsaar]

Right here

(Quicktime required)

Damn

[lars_boegild_thomsen]

Damn - I wish I had never seen this article. I've always used that observation as a definite measure when to stop drinking beer. Now I won't know when to stop. I'm sure this article has been sponsored by the breweries.

Re:Damn

[haggar]

I realize that your intent was to be funny, but if you don't know when to stop drinking, perhaps you shouldn't even start.

Re:Damn

[lars_boegild_thomsen]

Well - we all got our vices. And life would be pretty boring without them.

Re:Damn

[lars_boegild_thomsen]

But while we're at it. Someone should investigate why - some beers are bad - even within the same brand. I mean - you drink 9 and they are perfectly ok - and then all of a sudden no. 10 makes you sick. One would think in these hightech times they would have better quality control.

Re:Damn

[Anonymous Coward]

Well - we all got our vices. And life would be pretty boring without them.

I dunno, I think I could live with the tedium of people NOT being killed by drunk drivers, of people NOT pissing and puking and passing out on the sidewalk, of people NOT using drunkenness as an excuse for unleashing their inner monsters, like date-rape fantasies and sports-related riots, on the rest of humanity...

Mainly I think I could do without fratboy assholes shouting "Wooo!" and high-fiving each other during spring break, but that's just one of my pet peeves.

Re:Damn

[RadioTV]

Here is the advice I follow about when to stop -

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." Dean Martin

Re:Damn

[Anonymous Coward]

and we can do without you being an elitist fucking wanker.

Every drinker does NOT kill people if/when they drive (which they shouldn't, but anyway...), every drinker does NOT piss, puke or passout on the sidewalk, every drinker does NOT unleash their inner monster when drunk (if they have them at all), just as every drinker does NOT have date-rape fantasies or indulge in sports-related riots.

Sucks to be you, you generalising tosser.

Gravitational perpetuum mobile

[Archangle]

Just examine the effect and move it to macro scale, i.e. you drag lighter-than-air baloons down, pick them and release them up in normal conditions, creating energy (i.e. lifting small amounts of water up and releasing it onto a turbine). Free Energy! Of course there ain't no free lunch, but in this case it comes at cost of earth's rotation momentum, after several megawatts of energy produced our day will be some fraction of second longer.

Re:Gravitational perpetuum mobile

[and by]

I can only assume that you have been out trying to reproduce the experiment in the article.

Re:Gravitational perpetuum mobile

[Wonda]

sounds good!

days are much too short for me anyway :)

This is so obvious

[Pedrito]

I'm sorry, but it took scientists to figure out that it was caused by the flow of the beer from the bubbles rising in the center? I mean, I figured that out a long time ago just by looking. No 750 frame per second camera required. I don't even think I was sober when I figured it out. And this is news? Sorry, but I'm a bit disappointed.

Re:This is so obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

You didn't verify it in ANY way, not even approximately - so what is your stupid opinion worth?

A group of stanford researchers

[orbitalia]

ought to have better things to be doing than looking at bubbles in beer glasses dammit.

Re:A group of stanford researchers

[Anonymous Coward]

but you have nothing better to do than declare ignorant pronouncements on stanford researchers, you worthless turd

Sex education

[Gax]

"It's based on the idea of what goes up has to come down. In this case, the bubbles go up more easily in the center...than on the sides because of drag from the walls."

Is it just me, or is anyone else reminded of their sex education lessons?

I have no idea why they called it a "bubble" though.

Re:Sex education

[Anonymous Coward]

Search Kazaa for creampie. Good stuff.

Funding

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder just how much time and money went into this research?

My solution

[Mantorp]

quickly turn the glass upside down over your mouth

hmph....

[enrico_suave]

We've got this beer bubble thing licked, but still no cure for cancer...

e.

Re:hmph....

[UserGoogol]

You are a wanker; you are a tosspot; you are a very tiny piece of turd.

Beer bubbles is one specific area of physics, curing Cancer is more of a biological field. (Figuring out how to prevent mutations in somatic cells, I guess, would be how you would manage it.) The two fields are entirely unrelated.

Re:hmph....

[booyah]

already working on it

beer has been shown to reduce and kill some early leisons that can be cancerous...

dark beers are the best at it :-) a guinness a day keeps the doctor away

http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=984 6

as well as be a potentiel treatment for alzheimers
http://www.beerisgoodforyou.com/health /alzheimers. htm

an reducing the risk of heart disease

http://www.beerisgoodforyou.com/health/folate_in _b eer_may_protect_again.htm

As I watcch this video...

[Epistax]

I am reminded I am only 20 (and in the US), but that Guinness looks so good. I'm also in Massachusetts which appears to have the worst alcohol laws of any state I've been in.
People here are shocked when I talk about liquor sold in gas stations! (I'm from Maine, founder of prohibition in the US)

Re:As I watcch this video...

[smithmc]

Contrary to what you might have heard, the vast majority of us would rather have the beer.

unbelievable

[zaba]

Without further independent research that confirms this data, I won't believe it... As my contribution to mankind, I will be donating my time to this endeavor this afternoon, right after work... anyone else care to volunteer?

Re:unbelievable

[Anonymous Coward]

But what if your beer is tainted my friend, you could be poisoned by those who don't want you knowing the truth I volunteer my life as a quality control rep i will drink half of each pint to make sure science will have only one causulity if neferious hands so interfere

-long live the pursuit of drunkeness... i mean science

STANFORD IS PRIVATE PLZ DIE K THX

[Anonymous Coward]

u = gay

better for you than beer?

[Anonymous Coward]

strange brew

nearly free, as in you make it yourself. bubbles included.

Haha!

[zephyr1256]

When I read the headline of this article, I thought it read: "Beer Bellies Really Do Stink"

Priorities, man!

[Chris Burke]

1. Beer.
2. Cure for Cancer.

Sounds about right to me. Without the former, the latter is pointless!

Re:Priorities, man!

[Hassman]

Where does profit fit in here?

like convection currents

[obtuse]

This sounds analagous to the toroidal convection currents you get in heated fluids. In a small heated vessel, the hot middle goes up, and since the fluid on top cools and has to go somewhere, it goes down the sides to be heated again. In larger vessels, and depending on the characteristics of the fluid, you can get multiple toroidal cells.

In beer, it's fueled by bubbles, and bursting bubbles are the dumping of energy at the surface. Some small bubbles will get carried along down the sides by these currents.

You demonstrate convection this by pouring the cream into the middle of your coffee very carefully and slowly. Then if you wait, you can watch the cream come up to the top and spread out to the sides.

Also fun: Put a piece of ice into well-mixed coffee with cream, and watch the string of clear water that works its way down from the ice into the opaque coffee as the cold ice melts.

I guess beer is for the evening demo.

That's Interesting

[Tiado]

I wonder why that is, and since I hardly ever drink beer, I've never really observed the bubbles to see such a thing myself.

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you think Eddie Murphy made mention of it in one of his routines? Specifically, he was talking about Amityville. Something how niggers would've heard the house say to get out, and would've ran.

How do you think the KKK got started? The Klan dressed in white to scare niggers. I guess niggers fear ghosts. They took the cross burning from the Irish, who used a burning cross on a hill to let the community (which was far-spread) know that the men had returned from battle.

So, to rid your neighborhood of niggers, dress as a ghost, claim you're Irish and burn a cross in your yard.

Dupe

[Stonent1]

Dupe

Dupe

[Anonymous Coward]

Google search of slashdot for beer bubbles

Congratulations

[Anonymous Coward]

You have just attempted to insult someone who is imaginary. Well done, I'm sure that unoriginal put down has made you feel much better about yourself and your poor excuse for a life.

Re:Congratulations

[Anonymous Coward]

You're the one with the imaginary wife with the unwashed tit, fucko; I wouldn't go casting aspersions on other people's lives if I was that pathetic.

Gross-Legitimate scientific value

[mynameis (mother ...]

"legitimate scientific value in the area of fluidized beds , the mixing of solid particles with liquids and gases ..."

So I'm the only person warped enough to have gross and immature thoughts about this passage??
Not that the first has ever happened to me [really, I SWEAR] but we all know someone...
And the second, while it could refer to 'praying to the goddess,' I'm pretty sure it's the gastro-intestinal penalty the following afternoon. [aka Ice-ass, keg-ass, da Beasties, etc.]

If you ever drank a lot of beer, don't even...

Mmmm...bubbles going down in beer.

[Anonymous Coward]

-Homer

Re:Nice article - but whatabout sharing the eviden

[Anonymous Coward]

zare is a great (and rather senior) chemist around here--obviously he took on this project as a joke, not as his main research endeavor.

Sorry, modded down by accident

[Anonymous Coward]

This should remove the mod. Don't know why it was marked offtopic, though.

More information on beer and champagne bubbles

[sr180]

From Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
Bubbles 1
Bubbles 2
Bubbles 3

Pay no attention!

[Trejkaz]

The parent is just taking the piss.

Having too much research

[riqnevala]

The moderators on this story must have been doing too much research, as all the posts are rated 4-5 Funny.

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe the black people are afraid of the klan because they kill black people, you racist pig.