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it would, but it just wouldnt answer the question of which pint is averagely better, and put the question to bed (albeit for a couple of minutes). The issue arose over the guy harping on about a "pint of plain" referring to the everyman arseholery that Guinness want you to buy into. The obvious thing to say was that "plain" was Porterhouse and far superior, and thats why we are here now. I should have just shut up, but no!

"TheBeerNut":34uvk7en wrote: Won't somebody please think of the nitro?! It unfairly levels the playing field for crap stout.[/quote:34uvk7en]
Just thinking about, is it because Nitrogen adds fine bubbles/head to a beer without compromising (or balancing) the sweetness the way carbonation does in Wheat Beers? Or am I waay off the mark?

"Session":1p30vkuc wrote: The obvious thing to say was that "plain" was Porterhouse[/quote:1p30vkuc]Indeed. The Plain which Flann O'Brien is talking about is most likely Guinness's Plain Porter, which was discontinued in 1970.

&amp;quot;Atticus&amp;quot;:1p30vkuc wrote: Or am I waay off the mark?[/quote:1p30vkuc]Pretty much <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> Taste is mostly smell, and smell comes from gas. With a carbonated drink, the gas escapes out into the air and carries the flavour with it -- when you smell it or taste it you get a blast of gas-driven beery goodness. Since air is mostly nitrogen, nitro beers don't give off this gas: the nitrogen has no incentive to go anywhere so stays in the glass more, hence your long-lasting head. The upshot is the flavour isn't propelled towards the drinker so nitro beers just taste of less compared to the non-nitro equivalents. A bland beer well still taste bland, but an interesting beer will get blandificated.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:zefb5ve9 wrote: blandificated.[/quote:zefb5ve9]Another entry needed for the A-Z methinks <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: -->

Bah! It's a perfectly cromulent word.

I was curious if this has made it into a dictionary yet and there is a reference to cromulent but it completely misses the point, thus, I would say, actually gets the definition wrong.

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