Widget (beer), the Glossary
A widget is a device placed in a container of beer to manage the characteristics of the beer's head.[1]
Table of Contents
22 relations: Beer, Beer head, Bubble (physics), Carbon dioxide, Draught beer, Ernest Saunders, Guinness, Guinness Brewery, John Smith's Brewery, Laser engraving, Liquid nitrogen, Nucleation, Oxygen, Proportionality (mathematics), Pub, Radius, Research and development, Stout, Surface tension, Syringe, Table tennis, Wired (magazine).
- Beer vessels and serving
Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
Beer head
Beer head (also head or collar) is the frothy foam on top of beer and carbonated beverages which is produced by bubbles of gas, predominantly carbon dioxide, rising to the surface.
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Bubble (physics)
A bubble is a globule of a gas substance in a liquid.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula. Widget (beer) and Carbon dioxide are Industrial gases.
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Draught beer
Draught beer, also spelt draft, is beer served from a cask or keg rather than from a bottle or can.
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Ernest Saunders
Ernest Walter Saunders (born 21 October 1935) is a British former business manager.
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Guinness
Guinness is a stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in the 18th century.
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Guinness Brewery
St.
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John Smith's Brewery
John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, produces beers including John Smith's, the highest selling bitter in the United Kingdom since the mid-1990s.
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Laser engraving
Laser engraving is the practice of using lasers to engrave an object.
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Liquid nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen (LN2) is nitrogen in a liquid state at low temperature. Widget (beer) and liquid nitrogen are Industrial gases.
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Nucleation
In thermodynamics, nucleation is the first step in the formation of either a new thermodynamic phase or structure via self-assembly or self-organization within a substance or mixture.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Proportionality (mathematics)
In mathematics, two sequences of numbers, often experimental data, are proportional or directly proportional if their corresponding elements have a constant ratio.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
Radius
In classical geometry, a radius (radii or radiuses) of a circle or sphere is any of the line segments from its center to its perimeter, and in more modern usage, it is also their length.
Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Stout
Stout is a type of dark beer, that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout.
Surface tension
Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.
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Syringe
A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel.
Table tennis
Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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See also
Beer vessels and serving
- Barrel
- Beer Stein Marker
- Beer bong
- Beer bottle
- Beer engine
- Beer flight
- Beer glassware
- Beer stein
- Beer tap
- Beer tower
- Beverage can printing
- Bottling line
- Bright beer
- Cask breather
- Cornelius keg
- Drink can
- Drink coaster
- Filtered beer
- Flagon
- Frog mug
- Growler (jug)
- Jug
- Keg
- Kegerator
- Koozie
- Pitcher (container)
- Stillage
- Tankard
- Toby Jug
- Widget (beer)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_(beer)
Also known as Beer widget, Floating Widget, Rocket Widget, Smoothifier.