Guinness surger

[Dioltach]

I'm having some friends round this weekend to watch the RWC final, and some of the cans of Guinness I ordered turned out to be "surger": you're supposed to pour the Guinness gently into your glass, place it on the "surger" unit, and this then releases the gases which form the foam. As far as I can tell, it's sonic-based.

Needless to say, having never even heard of this contraption before, I don't have a surger unit. Not only that, they're not for sale anywhere (either the original Guinness version or a more generic "sonic beer foamer").

So, does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative approach? Shaking, pouring vigourously, a milk frother, an NOx gourmet whip? It's only a couple of cans, so no great loss if it doesn't work, but I'm willing to experiment with the ones I have.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I suggest singing some metal to the beer. It may start headbanging and foam up.

 

[Deset Gled]

Actually, putting the beer on top of a loud speaker may actually work. It would vibrate the beer and potentially work like the surger. However, Google also tells me that the surger was "ultrasonic", so the lower frequency stuff may not work as well. Try some disco instead of metal. If that doesn't work, or you can't stand disco, you could also try holding an electric toothbrush up against the glass. Most of those are ultrasonic.

 

[Scott DeWar]

What about the Ultrasonic toothbrush in the Guinness?

 

[Janx]

What about the Ultrasonic toothbrush in the Guinness?

with the bristles in the beer.

Best to use your well tested personal Ultrasonic toothbrush for the job. Just to be sure.

 

[Dioltach]

Thanks guys.
I'm going to start by putting my sonic toothbrush against the glass, the next experiment is to run my finger along the rim of the glass. After that, just plain old shaking I think.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Maybe use a new brush so the minty freshness does not taint the wonderful yummieness of Guinness.