http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/sci-tech\/japanese-brewing-company-kirin-invents-frozen-beer-foam-l\/story-fn5fsgyc-1226324652159<\/a><\/p>\nFrozen beer foam is poured over a cold beer and served to customers during the summer months. \u00a0It looks great, the frozen beer foam is also made of beer so it won’t water down the beer, and it will be served all over Japan this summer.<\/p>\n
It makes for a good discussion topic as we move into the summer season, and my students seem to get a kick out of the topic. \u00a0In fact, tomorrow I’m planning to go to a restaurant that has one of these machines to try it out for myself.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, one of my students brought in a flyer that he picked up at a convenience store. \u00a0Apparently, if you collect 96 stickers from Kirin beer cans, you can have one of these machines (what they call the “home version”) delivered to your house. \u00a0I’m eager to do some field research tomorrow – if it passes the test it’ll be time to switch my beer brand to Kirin for a while. \u00a096 beers is a lot of Kirin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently in some of my classes we have been discussing this new invention by Japanese brewer Kirin: http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/sci-tech\/japanese-brewing-company-kirin-invents-frozen-beer-foam-l\/story-fn5fsgyc-1226324652159 Frozen beer foam is poured over a cold beer and served to customers during the summer months. \u00a0It looks great, the frozen beer foam is also made of beer so it won’t water down the beer, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-BJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}