When Max Koch opened a bottle of homebrew beer one afternoon in Göttingen, Germany, he wasn’t just cracking open a drink. He ...

The popping sound of a swing-top bottle brings a small joy to many beer drinkers - but also to a group of physicists in ...

CAYANA: Hey. What are you doing? HARRY: I've just dropped my bottle of fizzy drink on the floor, and now I'ma bit worried to open it. CAYANA: I think you'll be fine. HARRY: I don't know.

While the physics of uncorking a bottle of champagne has been well documented, less is known about the mechanisms at play when opening a swing-top bottle of beer. Physicist Max Koch from the ...

The gas molecules from the soda gather on these tiny crystals and become bubbles ... The molecules of carbon dioxide are thoroughly mixed and dissolved into the water in the soda pop. When you open a ...