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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
David Ellis and Josh Barrie

On the Sauce with Guinness Nitrosurge: Hands up, this one is probably our fault

Guinness already has the pubs in its pocket — the Irish stout is the UK’s most popular pint — but now the brewing giant is looking to grab grasp of the home market too. Canned Guinness is the company’s Achilles heel; it tends to be said that the beer needs to be pulled to the pump, needs to rest on a bar top, and needs the cheer of a pub to help it slip down. But, on the technical end, that it needs nitrogen for its creamy, dense head. And so the company has come up with Nitrosurge, a device that can be attached to the top of a can, and, deployed correctly, will let drinkers enjoy the same kind of pint indoors as they might out. And so, we gave it a go; here’s what we thought.

David’s take

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