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OFF THE TICKER : Stout Contribution There, Old Chap

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The Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement used to be conferred upon British innovations in medicine and aerospace.

In 1991 it went to a beer can.

Guinness Ltd. placed a device in its Pub Draught cans to unleash nitrogen bubbles in a way that would give the brew the full head of a draft beer.

The awards panel apparently became intoxicated with the design.

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