Comments on Beer Crusade: Corona: An Oldie, But A Goodie

Anonymous is clearly the smartest person to have e...

2009-07-23T12:23:30.025-04:00

Anonymous is clearly the smartest person to have ever read this site. This explanation made my head hurt and I will need a beer cure.

It wasn't the chemistry of the lime that caused th...

2009-07-23T12:19:28.302-04:00

It wasn't the chemistry of the lime that caused the slush, this can happen simply by opening the bottle. You can do it also with bottled water simply by shaking it.
Two things - a bit of freezing point depression due to higher pressure in the bottle, but mostly due to the fact that there aren't that many nucleation sites in a sealed bottle of supercooled (in the sense that it is liquid below the freezing point) beer - you pop the lid, CO2 gas bubbles exolve and provide nucleation sites for ice crystals and bingo - a beer popcycle.

Although I am, and always will remain a Beer Crusa...

2009-06-24T12:51:26.458-04:00

Although I am, and always will remain a Beer Crusader loyalist, let me be the first to welcome Pale Ale Guy. Delicious Corona’s can nary be beat on a hot Summer day. I’d like to suggest my own Summer beer favorites: Pacifico (Corona’s mature older cousin), and Red Stripe (Corona’s dipshit younger brother)