Anybody ever try carbonating with helium?

[rypalmer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tby91aTGF4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Seems like a pretty neat idea!

[PEIBeerGuy]

I wouldn't waste it on beer, as cool as it may be.

[Keggermeister]

April Fools!

If and when you get heluim into your bloodstream and brain, you die.

[rypalmer]

If and when you get heluim into your bloodstream and brain, you die.

Buzzkill.

[chalmers]

April Fools!

If and when you get heluim into your bloodstream and brain, you die.

Not to bring some truth into a April Fool's joke, but...

I'm quite sure there's no danger of dying from helium poison by drinking it, as Trimix and Heliox are diving gases with elevated helium levels (20-80%) used in technical diving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimix_(breathing_gas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

[Curtis_E_Bare]

The geek in me can't resist dissecting this April's fools joke.

Helium is far too insoluble in water to be able to "carbonate" beer. In fact, it's often used to degas liquids due to its low solubility.

[chalmers]

Oh right, I didn't even think about that. And that's supposed to be my jam (though we're all vacuum degassing these days).

Back from mommy yoga already?

[Curtis_E_Bare]

Oh right, I didn't even think about that. And that's supposed to be my jam (though we're all vacuum degassing these days).

Back from mommy yoga already?

April fools!

[Keggermeister]

April Fools!

If and when you get heluim into your bloodstream and brain, you die.

Not to bring some truth into a April Fool's joke, but...

I'm quite sure there's no danger of dying from helium poison by drinking it, as Trimix and Heliox are diving gases with elevated helium levels (20-80%) used in technical diving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimix_(breathing_gas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

But that has 02 in it. Under the right conditions heluiminated (sp?) drinks could kill. Shotgunning comes to mind. Yeah it's buzzkill, but it'd be so easy to do for us that it had to be said.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=dies+fro ... 8QfrvoGwCw

[chalmers]

The air around us has O2 in it. You'd have to be only drinking the beer, and not breathing between sips/gulps/shotgunning, to asphyxiate from it.
Why don't people die from CO2 "poisoning" when shotgunning a beer? There's nothing particularly poisonous about the helium, it's just that it displaces the O2 in in your lungs.

The link that comes up highlighted in your search was about a girl who died after sucking helium directly from a tank (high pressure from the tank could have ruptured something internal). I've also read about people who died because they got/put their head *inside* a helium balloon at a party. The same would happen if they did that with other oxygen-deprived gases.

And as C_E_B stated, the whole thing is moot as helium does not dissolve in beer. It is ~1500x less soluble in water than CO2. ref: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gases ... _1148.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;