Budweiser Wants to Change the Way You Pour Beer With New Nitrogen-Infused Version

The golden lager can be shaken and poured down the middle of a glass

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Budweiser wants to switch up the conventional wisdom around how beer should be poured with a new nitrogen-infused golden lager that can be shaken and poured down the middle of a cup.

Anheuser-Busch claims its new Budweiser Nitro Gold, which hits store shelves this week, is one of the first pale beers packaged with this carbonation technique on a national scale. First popularized by Guinness’ nitrogen-infused can widgets, nitro beers have been growing in popularity among craft brewers recently, although they are much more commonly used in darker beers because of the smaller bubbles the process yields.

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