SC - re: OOP - carbonating beverages

[Charles McCathieNevile]

Carbonating things with NO is not likely to be as good, unless you want 
to carbonate whipped cream (or guiness - it uses a Nitrogen-based gas 
instead of your standard CO2 I think that's why draught guiness comes out 
differently to normally carbonated beers)

And yes, inhaling NO from bulbs is a short buzz, basically gained by 
temporary suffocation - not very healthy. But they are readily available.

Best bet is still to use a soda siphon or to use a low-sugar fermenting 
process, which will produce very low alcohol sodas. In australia, things 
under something like 1% can be sold to minors at milk bars, etc, and are 
probably not very good for getting drunk on. (As a minor I tried an 
ice-distillation one some once. It was not a very successful exercise, 
but that may have been the process. Anyway, to get an effect requires 
drinking a LOT. Water drunk in similar quantities has a narcotic effect, 
which works by diluting hormones in the blood or something.

Charles Ragnar
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