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Device speeds draft beer pour, cuts spills
CHICAGO, July 15 (UPI) -- Determined that what the world really needs is a three-second beer, innovative Matthew Younkle made his dream come true with TurboTap. Ten years after the inspiration struck as a college senior, Younkle, 31, is president and chief technology officer of TurboTap, a company marketing a finger-sized nozzle that attaches to standard beer faucets and pours draft beer at least twice as fast as traditional systems do, and with less spillage. | I'm thinking this is Nobel Prize material |
The Chicago company has installed about 1,000 TurboTaps at bars, restaurants and ballparks -- including Chicago's two major-league baseball stadiums.
As an engineering student in college, Younkle concluded that gravity, not bartender incompetence, was to blame for long beer lines, the Chicago Sun-Times said Friday. Beer, like any liquid, accelerates as it leaves the tap. | See, those drunken frat parties did pay off |
After several years of R&D -- ''research and drinking'' -- Younkle decided to create a nozzle that slowed the descent of the beer and reduced the force of its impact.
| This one's for you, Matt! |
Posted by: Steve 2005-07-15 |
