[Shop-talk] Paging Mr Wizard

[Kurt Oblinger]

Maybe the ice was made with heavy water?

What?
Right, back to my corner......

Kurt O.

On 2/4/2011 8:48 PM, Randall wrote:
>> Maybe if the root beer is largely corn syrup, that could be
>> lower density.
> Nope, corn syrup is also higher density than water.
>
> In fact, normal ice does float on normal root beer (I worked for awhile as a
> soda jerk many years ago).  So I'm also at a loss to explain what Steve saw;
> unless perhaps the ice was stuck to the glass and only came free after the
> level had dropped.
>
> Used to be that A&W would store their glass mugs in the freezer, so when
> they added root beer, the cold mug would actually freeze water out of the
> root beer onto the glass.  But I thought they quit doing that a long time
> ago (shortly before I stopped buying root beer there).
>
> -- Randall