The editorial team were forthcoming with ambitious – but mostly inaccurate – guesses. ‘5,000’. No. ‘100,000’. Wrong. ‘A trillion’. Don’t be silly. To save you from counting, the answer is two million. That’s two million tiny globules of carbon dioxide (CO2) tightly packed within a single pint glass of your favourite beer. That’s a lot of bubbles.
To put it into context, the combined volume of two million CO2 bubbles from a pint of beer, if stuck together, would be approximately 15.86 times the volume of an average human. At least according to ChatGPT, which reminded me to ‘keep in mind that this is a theoretical estimation based on simplifications and assumptions about bubble size and arrangement.’ Of course.
The use of gases in food and beverage
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