And I will hope that there are at least some goofy answers. (Hopefully there will be some helpful answers...)

To start out this distinguished thread. When you open a fresh 2 liter bottle of pop, beer or what have you. A few hours later half the carbonation is gone. To best preserve this should you....

A) Squeeze all the air out and cap it back up again?
B) Leave the bottle un-mashed and seal it back up again?
C) Drink it in one sitting so your drink is as carbonated as it can get?

So have at it!

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D) Shake it up when you first get it and ask your wife politely to open it because the arthritis in your hands is acting up...then run.

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theres a new gizmo that you can attach to the top of the bottle and you can manually pump air into the bottle to reintroduce the air pressure that keeps the CO2 in the liquid

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D) Shake it up when you first get it and ask your wife politely to open it because the arthritis in your hands is acting up...then run.

I'll try that! Thanks!

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theres a new gizmo that you can attach to the top of the bottle and you can manually pump air into the bottle to reintroduce the air pressure that keeps the CO2 in the liquid

Yup. They've always got something you can buy.

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If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down before it gets warm. If it is anything else, then it doesn't matter.

Steve

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A) is definitely the worst method, since you generate a vacuum by squeezing the air out and that forces even more CO2 to bubble out.

The distinction between B) and C) depends on the volume of your stomach ;-)

(No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information, since I've consumed some beverages without CO2 but with some C2H5OH before writing this;-)

Gruß,
Gundolf
[edit]Obviously, those beverages slow you down too, since there have been no answeres when I started mine ;-)[/edit]

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If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down before it gets warm. If it is anything else, then it doesn't matter.

Steve

Right on!

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Sorry mate! Hicks......What was the question again? Hicks!...

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If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down before it gets warm. If it is anything else, then it doesn't matter.

Steve

Right on!

Unless you are English in which case you must allow it to warm up BEFORE drinking.

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If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down before it gets warm. If it is anything else, then it doesn't matter.

Steve

as an german, i have to edit this to:

If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down. nothing else matters.

evildirk

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"Früher war alles besser. Auch die Zukunft!"

If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down before it gets warm. If it is anything else, then it doesn't matter.

Steve

Right on!

Unless you are English in which case you must allow it to warm up BEFORE drinking.

Ewww! Are you for real?! Warm beer = YUCK!

Actually, while we're there...Iced Tea, what the hell is that all about? Tea is meant to be hot (not that I am a tea drinker LOL).

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If it's beer then you are moraly obligated to suck it down before it gets warm. If it is anything else, then it doesn't matter.

Steve

Right on!

Unless you are English in which case you must allow it to warm up BEFORE drinking.

Ewww! Are you for real?! Warm beer = YUCK!

Actually, while we're there...Iced Tea, what the hell is that all about? Tea is meant to be hot (not that I am a tea drinker LOL).

Ice tea in the summer and hot tea in the winter. We are farther south than you are and it makes a difference. I like a little lemon and a little sweetener but in some part of the country you add sugar till it won't dissolve.

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A) is definitely the worst method, since you generate a vacuum by squeezing the air out and that forces even more CO2 to bubble out.

The distinction between B) and C) depends on the volume of your stomach ;-)

(No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information, since I've consumed some beverages without CO2 but with some C2H5OH before writing this;-)

Gruß,
Gundolf
[edit]Obviously, those beverages slow you down too, since there have been no answeres when I started mine ;-)[/edit]

It's amazing how any mention of C2H5OH in any form can spark a good conversation and pleasant thoughts! :D

Steve

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Here is another goofy question brought on by Alcohol. They say that the first brew came from some cave man putting grapes under a rock for safe keeping. He wasn't very careful and crushed them and he also left them for a while. The brew that resulted caused him to want more. Anybody who has bumped into wild yeast has had a very low opinion of anything it gets into. What possessed him to make a second attempt?
A. He had no sense of taste.
B. He got lucky and it did taste good.
C. He valued the effect more than the taste.
D. He had people coming over for a party.
E. Some other reason I haven't thought of.

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Here is another goofy question brought on by Alcohol. They say that the first brew came from some cave man putting grapes under a rock for safe keeping. He wasn't very careful and crushed them and he also left them for a while. The brew that resulted caused him to want more. Anybody who has bumped into wild yeast has had a very low opinion of anything it gets into. What possessed him to make a second attempt?
A. He had no sense of taste.
B. He got lucky and it did taste good.
C. He valued the effect more than the taste.
D. He had people coming over for a party.
E. Some other reason I haven't thought of.

I would say D, because cooling in the cave man days was limited to sticking a bottle or can in the nearest stream to cool it off. With the others already on the way over for the party, the wine needed to be properly chilled....

Steve

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I think it was a chain of effects (sorry, couldn't find a better translation at this time of day;-):
A)->(B)->)C)->D)
(and probably several others matching E) :-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

Interesting question. I used to work with a guy who, after taking a few swigs, would fastidiously take his 16oz pop bottle and squeeze and mash it until the liquid was up near the neck before re-capping it. I used to give him a ration of crap about it, my thought being that if the cap formed a tight seal, the CO2 couldn't escape though the plastic bottle. He justified his actions simply by saying that 20 years in the Air Force had taught him a thing or two. No definitive answer was ever found.

20 years in the Air Force had taught him a thing or two.

And the guy that "taught" him is probably still laughing about it!! :-)

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20 years in the Air Force had taught him a thing or two.

And the guy that "taught" him is probably still laughing about it!! :-)

Not unlike one of my first jobs as an FE, getting sent down 3 floors and out to the van to get the "cable packer".