Nitrous oxide vs CO2

[Fencer]

I am brewing a batch of Guinness Extra Stout Clone for the first time. (Recipe originally posted by H G Brewing.)
I modified the recipe from partial grain to full grain and have it in fermentation now.
My plan is to keg with NO, nitrous oxide.
1)- Should dry stout be kegged with NO?
2) Are there any guidelines for volumes CO2 vs NO?

 

[Nosybear]

Isn't it poisonous?

 

[AHarper]

You could try there.... they fit in place of the CO2 capsules used to pressurize Kegs.

http://www.easywhip.com/wholesale-w...MI2dLH9tbI4AIVLrftCh0XcQtQEAAYAiAAEgKfufD_BwE

 

[Fencer]

Isn't it poisonous?

I wrote the wrong abbreviation should be N2O, laughing gas or whippets.
I googled the question, which I probably should have done first, and got a whole range of answers.
Most say not a good idea. Guinness uses a 3:1 nitrogen/ carbon dioxide mix to over pressurize during dispensing.
I think I will leave the idea behind and just use 2.1 volumes of CO2 to carbonate.
Thanks for your help and support.

 

[BOB357]

You can get high on N2O, but not CO2. Had a friend that never left home without his whipped cream dispenser and some whippets.

 

[Yooper]

You can carbonate with c02, then pour with nitrogen, especially if you have a stout faucet or you can get beer gas which is a mix.

 

[Nosybear]

I wrote the wrong abbreviation should be N2O, laughing gas or whippets.
I googled the question, which I probably should have done first, and got a whole range of answers.
Most say not a good idea. Guinness uses a 3:1 nitrogen/ carbon dioxide mix to over pressurize during dispensing.
I think I will leave the idea behind and just use 2.1 volumes of CO2 to carbonate.
Thanks for your help and support.

I agree: The nitrogen they're using is N2, about three-quarters of our atmosphere. Although I could imagine laughing gas in some beers....

 

[BOB357]

I agree: The nitrogen they're using is N2, about three-quarters of our atmosphere. Although I could imagine laughing gas in some beers....

Probably best in NA beers

 

[Group W]

Helium isn’t poisonous.

 

[BOB357]

Dang! If you carbonated with helium would it be a light beer?

 

[Mark Farrall]

Sadly it's a fake.

 

[Craigerrr]

I was just looking for that video to post, maybe it's a fake, but it is Fuuuu Kneeee!

 

[Mark Farrall]

Been thinking about adding nitro to the kegerator. I was going to do as Yooper suggested, which is to carbonate the keg with CO2 and then dispense with the Nitrogen / CO2 mix that's sold as beer gas. Once I've got one of those fancy nozzels for stout dispensing.

 

[Mark Farrall]

Isn't it poisonous?

Nitrous Oxide is safe, in itself. It's just that people high on the effects have an alarmingly higher injury rate than normal.

 

[Group W]

Sadly it's a fake.

That’s what I was thinking. Funnier than $hi!.

 

[Hawkbox]

Hmm Whippet beer would fall where in the BJCP?