What makes beer stale!

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What makes beer stale!

Post by bob downe » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:06 pm

Interesting article about how beer goes stale.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13067547

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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by dave-o » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:04 pm

Let's hope the Beeb will continue this theme and give us Prof Cox's "Wonders of the Beeriverse" next.

"This pint of beer alone has a billion, billion, billion, billion, billion tiny bubbles in it - that's as many cells as are in the human body!" *constant fixed grin*

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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by vacant » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:26 pm

dave-o wrote:Let's hope the Beeb will continue this theme and give us Prof Cox's "Wonders of the Beeriverse" next.

"This pint of beer alone has a billion, billion, billion, billion, billion tiny bubbles in it - that's as many cells as are in the human body!" *constant fixed grin*
One of my kids is doing his PhD in Gamma Ray Astronomy. Apparently Brian Cox's name is mud amongst astrophysicists because "he's only a particle physicist and he gets loads of stuff wrong".

So I dared him to wear this to work :lol:
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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by bob downe » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:58 pm

dave-o wrote:" *constant fixed grin*


Ha Ha. Just what I was thinking. After half an hour on the TV, his grin can get most tiresome. :=P

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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by Naich » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:19 pm

vacant wrote: One of my kids is doing his PhD in Gamma Ray Astronomy. Apparently Brian Cox's name is mud amongst astrophysicists because "he's only a particle physicist and he gets loads of stuff wrong".
Where is he doing it? I work for the Astrophysics group at Cambridge Uni - well, a sort of splinter group off it.

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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by RichardG » Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:55 am

Jealousy, it's a terrible thing!

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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by vacant » Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:24 pm

Naich wrote:Where is he doing it? I work for the Astrophysics group at Cambridge Uni - well, a sort of splinter group off it.
Durham. Though they're packing him off to some telescope in Namibia for the summer.
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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by vacant » Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:29 pm

RichardG wrote:Jealousy, it's a terrible thing!

.... and attracts teasers like flies to a cow pat.

Sorry Bob Downe, your thread got diverted by the Brian Cox appreciation society #-o
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Re: What makes beer stale!

Post by symptomlesscoma » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:10 pm

Should have known it was a university in Munich doing the study into how to stop beer going stale.

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