1. Type of gas used
   Instead of using CO2 to push the beer through the lines, like a typical draft beer, Guinness uses a nitrogen/CO2 blend. This mixed gas comes in an all-in-one air tank that contains 25% CO2 and 75% nitrogen. The nitrogen gives Guinness its creamy, tight head that makes it pour and look unique. Just about every city in the country has a mixed gas dealer. So, to get this in your city, simply check under "gas" in your local yellow pages. Or, ask your local Guinness distributor who they recommend. The Guinness Import Company goes to great lengths to make sure that gas dealers are properly blending air tanks with mixed gas. Some gas dealers will only fill a nitrogen tank with mixed gas. Other dealers are not partial and will fill a regular CO2 tank with the mixed gas. The only difference between the two kinds of tanks is the threads on it. So, you can use your CO2 regulator with a nitrogen tank, but will need is a CO2/Nitrogen Adapter. Make sure to set the regulator for 30 psi.
   
2. Keg Coupler
   This is the piece that fits onto the keg itself. Draught Guinness and Harp Lager use a coupler that is unique to those brands.
   
3. Faucet
   Faucet The last thing is the faucet. If you've watched a bar person pour a pint of Guinness, look at the faucet. It is different than all the other faucets. Sometimes it is called a European Specialty Faucet. There is a different type of handle on the faucet, it is pulled forward and down for the beer to come out. Also, in the faucet is a tiny restrictor disc. The beer is forced through the disc, this is what helps give Guinness its unique head. There is also no waste (foaming over) with dispensing Guinness. These Specialty Faucets can be converted to dispense any other type of beer (i.e.: Bud, Miller, Coors etc.) by removing the restrictor disc/flow straightener.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF BEER

In May 1999, Texas Southwestern Medical Center reported that the results of studies demonstrated that those who consume moderate amounts of beer (one to two per day) have a 30-40% lower rate of coronary heart disease compared to those who don't drink.

Beer contains a similar amount of antioxidants as red wine and five times as many antioxidants as white wine.

Alcohol in general has also been shown to have the ability to increase the amount of good cholesterol (HDL) into the bloodstream and helping to decrease blood clots.

Beer in particular contains vitamin B6, which prevents the build-up of the amino acid homocysteine that has been linked to heart disease.

A recent study performed at the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute in Utrecht indicates that those who drink beer had no increase in their homocysteine level over a measured period of time; in contrast, those who drank wine or liquor still had some increase.

Also noted was the fact that those who drank beer experienced a 30% increase in vitamin B6 in their blood plasma.

The health value of beer has actually been known, documented, and applied for centuries, although the facts about beer are often covered up or obscured by those who abstain.

Beer is made from grains, water, and yeast. Wheat and barley are the most commonly used of these grains (cheaper beers use corn and rice), both of which are loaded with a variety of vitamins that survive the fermentation and filtering process.

And the vitamin value of the yeast (the source of the high concentrations of B6) is conserved in the hundreds of unfiltered beers that are on the market -- both on tap and in bottles.

Dr. Katherine Tucker in 2004 "participated in a study that showed beer, either dark or light, protects bone mineral density," reported The Harford Courant.

According to Tucker—who is associate professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition, Science, and Policy—alcoholic beverage contains high levels of an ingredient which allows the deposit of calcium and other minerals into bone tissue.

"The reason, we think, is that beer is a major contributor to the diet of silicon," the Tufts expert, who is director of the nutritional epidemiology program at the Friedman School, told the Courant.

"Most health research suggests that benefits, including protection against heart disease, are noted with up to one drink per day for women and up to two a day for men," Tucker went on to say.

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