How does the widget found in Draught beer cans work?

Who invented the gas wiggit you found in Draught beer cans?

Guinness brewers Tony Carey and Sammy Hildebrand invented the "widget" in 1968. Slainte!

What is the white ball in the Guinness beer can?

This is what I got off of the guinness.com website: Glad you asked. The widget is a plastic molded device that sits on the top of the contents of each can of GUINNESS® Draught. When the can is opened, a small amount of beer and nitrogen, trapped in the widget, is forced out through the beer, which creates the famous creamy head that you find on a pint of GUINNESS® Draught served in a pub. The widget gives GUINNESS® Draught in cans the taste and texture of a pub-poured pint at home. In GUINNESS® Draught in bottles, the clever little 'rocket' widget floats free in the beer to refresh the creamy head of your GUINNESS® Draught with each swig you take from the bottle.

What is the definition of draught beer and how does it differ from other types of beer?

Draught beer is beer that is served from a keg or cask, typically through a tap system. It is often fresher and has a creamier texture compared to bottled or canned beer. The main difference is in the serving method, as draught beer is dispensed directly from a keg, while other types of beer are packaged in bottles or cans.

How many cans of beer are typically found in a keg?

A standard keg usually contains around 165 cans of beer.

What can be done with old beer cans?

Old beer cans can be collected. There are many collectors who would pay a decent price for a rare old beer can that can no longer be found. Beer cans can also be used to craft things by creative people. Things such as couches, suits of armor, model airplanes, and several other usable items have been made out of old beer cans.

Why is there a plug in Bottles of Guiness Draught?

It is the same as the object in 16oz cans of Guinness. It is a one time CO2 cartridge which infuses the beer with a burst of CO2 when it is opened. This is why Guinness has so much foam when you open it. Many beer "experts" believe beer needs to have a certain amount of CO2 to allow the full flavor of the beer to be experienced.

Where is Guinness sold in America brewed?

Guinness makes more than one type of beer. For example, draught and extra stout (as well as others). The draught beer sold in the widget cans and the draught beer you get at a pub supposedly come from the St. James Gate brewery in Dublin, Ireland. There are Guinness breweries all over the world including one in Canada run by Labatt that makes Guinness Extra Stout for US and Canada. One distributor said that they supply "Guinness" mostly for markets west of the Mississippi. It should also be noted that the Extra Stout brewed in Canada for the Canadian and US markets has a higher alcohol content than what is sold in Europe (5% vs. 4.1-4.3%). By most accounts this Canadian brewed stout tastes different than the Irish brewed stout, but the draught version supposedly all comes from the same place. The answer it seems, depends on what type of Guinness you mean (Draught, Extra Stout, Foreign Extra Stout, etc) and where in the US you are.

A type of beer usually sold in bottles or cans?

Cans

How much is a flat of beer?

A "slab" or "case" of beer is usually 24 bottles or cans. In some places, cans come in 18 or 30 packs; these are not usually referred to as "slabs."

What is the circumference of a beer can?

some beer cans are larger than others

How many cans make a pound in 2007?

It takes 32 12oz soda cans, or 28 beer cans. Beer cans are heavier. (BUT !! Beer cans can be brought back to any liquor store for a refund same as beer bottles... What makes this a much better deal is that if you bring 28 Beer cans to a metal scrap yard, you will get about 1.00$ for ther scrap aluminum, but bringing them back to a Beer store you will get 0.10$ every can, if you add this up it equals 2.80$ therfor you make about 2.8 times more money...) Contributed by Rob Oneill

What is a widget?

There is no one thing called a widget. The term is used generically like gadget or gizmo.It's often used in an academic context, especially in business schools or economics classes. For example, an economics professor might talk to her students about "the supply and demand for widgets," or a marketing teacher might ask his students to develop "a plan for selling widgets." By using a generic term they keep their students from being distracted by the item itself.AnswerI believe originally the term widget was used in reference to a device or article the name of which you had either forgotten or never knew in the first place. For example: In the English brewing industry the term widget is a applied to a small device found in cans of beer which make the beer froth in a similar fashion to beer pumped from a keg - it became known as a widget because no-one could think of any other name for it.AnswerIn the brewing industry a widget is a small plastic or nylon device which has small holes in it and is bottled or caned inside the beer. Widgets then release small bubbles of nitrogen into the packaged beer when the container is opened.AnswerIf you are thinking about Yahoo! Widgets, go to the official website, http://widgets.yahoo.com/ then click on a button in the upper right hand corner that says "What is a Widget?". Hope this is what you were looking for.a widget is a small window at the side of a computer screenAnswerThere also used to be a product called a widget. It was a hard plastic yellow handle that held a razor blade, and could be used as a scraper.In Cell phone lingo a widget is a shortcut that is on the home screen of your mobile phone. It is just a small picture and maybe a one word description that you can click on and take you to that certain application.Its synonymous with gadget/gizmo/doodad/contrivance/device.