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Here is your opportunity to help with the most useful thing which you will ever do, and probably the most useful thing mankind will ever do. Of course you know what I mean...Guiness ice-lollies.

My quest this summer is to create a Guinness ice-lolly with a head. It may sound unlikely, yes, the misinformed even say impossible , but I am going to do it. I am going to freeze guiness in its most perfect state, and acheive the uttermost peak of alcohol-fueled gimmicky depravity.

So far I have come up with these ideas, all to be tested when I can persuade the bloke at the deli to serve me :

- Pour some guiness into a lolly mold and see what happens.

- Use dry ice, stolen in the middle of the night from Pinewood Studios to super-chill a lolly-mold, and then pour the guiness direct into that, hoping that it will freeze solid as it is poured in, and the head with it.

- Program some remote controlled robots which are stored at the Peers (Peers is a local school and technology college) Tech. Department to break into the secure Peers Tech. vaults and steal liquid nitrogen which is stored within, before transporting it downtown to our base of operations. Then pour the Guiness directly into the liquid nitrogen, as it will freeze solid withing the liquid, forming a rather cool and swirly type of lolly.

- Attempt the feat at sunset either at a)Stonehenge, b)The Bermuda Triangle c)The Pyramids or d)Upside down inside one of those two-dimensional bottles which has no inside and no outside.

So which course of action is the most likely to be fruitful? Have you any better ideas which you can share with us?

OK, how about this?

Get one of those Guiness Extra Cold pint glasses (I've always wanted one myself, actually, but the pubs always give me plastic glasses ), go down to your glasswork shop or whatever at school, and drill a hole in the bottom just the size of a good-sized wooden dowel. Then put the dowel in, and seal it so it's watertight...or beertight. Go to your local, get them to fill it up with the stuff (or get an older friend to - note, I do not condone underage purchasing of alcohol. Me big hypocrite ) Freeze quickly, or the head will go. Hopefully you'll have your lolly...let us know if it works, and maybe you'll be able to show me one of these days

Absolutely top-notch idea, though A Warhol of the future, perhaps? ROFL

A good suggestion @Kam...but how can I freeze such a thing quickly enough, and, as it freezes, how can I stop the oxygen in the head being acted upon by the pressure of the expanding Guiness from diffusing into the whole pint...and also, how will I be able to consume a pint sized lolly? Anyway, I will keep you posted, hopefully with photos, of my expolits to try and create this masterpiece...

Bring it to canada....

Originally posted by Obsidian
Bring it to canada....

That'll freeze just about anything.

Originally posted by frogus
A good suggestion @Kam...but how can I freeze such a thing quickly enough, and, as it freezes, how can I stop the oxygen in the head being acted upon by the pressure of the expanding Guiness from diffusing into the whole pint...and also, how will I be able to consume a pint sized lolly? Anyway, I will keep you posted, hopefully with photos, of my expolits to try and create this masterpiece...

Heh...You raise good points there - as I have never seen the need to freeze beer I couldn't answer those questions...I think it's one of those things you can only learn from experience. Unless you can find a website, that is Perhaps if you attempted to freeze it in an airtight container, the head would be forced to stay...or the whole thing might just explode. I really couldn't tell you. Just one more thing. You don't actually intend to eat it, do you

A man who has not felt the need to freeze beer has not lived, my friend. . The air tight container is appealing though...hmmmm... what do you know about the internal workings of vacuum cleaners? Do they actually have a vacuum in them, and if so, how is it produced?
Maybe I can steal some of those bags that you put fish in from The Goldfish Bowl, and somehow suck all th air out of one of those...hmm...*sinks into deep thought*

I wasn't thinking anything to do with vacuum, just airtight so that the partial pressure of the CO2 would stay the same. Or would an airtight container mean it changed? Anyway, if you have a container that no air can get in or out of, and fill it completely up with beer, then I think that the head should stay, because the CO2 would have nowhere to go...but having never done it, I would stand well back if I were you

You could just wait 'til it goes flat.
Or get 2 pints, freeze, and carve them into whatever shape you want.

Oh dear, what will be next? Beer-soup?
Still, I believe the lolly would be excellent.

@Frogus; Try freezing some guiness in those ice-cube things everybody keeps in the fridge. Beer-cubes!
...Now, where´d I put that recipe for chewing gum?

BTW, does Buck frown upon requests as changing usernames?
Or can one of the other guys do it as well?

Originally posted by Jaesha
@Frogus; Try freezing some guiness in those ice-cube things everybody keeps in the fridge. Beer-cubes!
...Now, where´d I put that recipe for chewing gum?

BTW, does Buck frown upon requests as changing usernames?
Or can one of the other guys do it as well?

Frogus did say no spam.

However, AFAIK you would have to start a new account, and probably ask Buck to close your current one.
However I'd suggest asking Fable or someone who knows for sure.

Okay, was just wondering... sorry for spamming, frogus!