Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer 157
Cazekiel writes "Sticking a mug in your freezer to ensure a cold beer may be made obsolete, if the Japanese brewing giant Kirin has anything to do about it. How? Kirin came up with a way to create frozen beer foam, dispensed the way you would a soft-serve ice cream cone. Gizmag gives us the details: 'To make the topping, regular Ichiban beer is frozen to -5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) while air is continuously blown into it. It's kind of like when a child makes bubbles in their drink, except inside a blast freezer. Once the topping is placed onto regular, unfrozen beer though, it acts as an insulating lid and keeps the drink cold for 30 minutes.'"
Might make flavorless rice lagers easier to go down, but what about real beer? A hefeweizen under an ice cap on a warm summer afternoon? How about an entire glass full of frozen chocolate stout?
Re:Ice anyone? (Score:2, Funny)
I assume it's because they are not savages
Kirin's not bad (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Real beer? (Score:5, Funny)
And I didn't speak out because I don't like Bud Light
Then they came for the mass-produced European lagers
And I didn't speak out because I don't have the money to blow on fancy schmancy imports.
Then they came for the stouts.
And I didn't speak up. Do I look Irish to you?
Then they came for the IPA's.
And it was about damn time. I like hops but I don't like to rub them in my eyeballs while I'm drinking beer.
But then they came for the Kolsch.
And there was no one left to speak out for me.
Bring this Guinness back freezing cold! (Score:4, Funny)
"I didn't know gazpacho soup was meant to be served cold. I called over the chef and I told him to take it away and bring it back hot. He did! The looks on their faces still haunt me today! I thought they were laughing at the chef, when all the time they were laughing at me as I ate my piping hot gazpacho soup! I never ate at the captain's table again. That was the end of my career."
Re:Ice anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Despite Coors' Best Efforts... (Score:5, Funny)
... "cold" is not a flavor.
Re:Ice anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ice anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed, the keeping chickens is on the rise here in the U.S., and any woman who wishes to breed chickens for food would need to have at least one cock.