Spotted at total wine and spirits today and thought of you:
 
Surprisingly spendy or I would have grabbed it.  

Spotted at total wine and spirits today and thought of you:
 
Surprisingly spendy or I would have grabbed it.  

I'm not sure there's a market for carbonated bourbon, but I've been wrong before.

I've made drinks with dry ice for Halloween (and Tuesdays) before. It just takes a couple of cubes for the drink to pick up a fizz.

I'm not sure there's a market for carbonated bourbon, but I've been wrong before.

I'm not sure there's a market for carbonated bourbon, but I've been wrong before.

I'm not sure there's a market for carbonated bourbon, but I've been wrong before.

I've got absolutely no idea how much carbonation it would pick up from the dry ice sublimating all I know is I sure don't want to find out.  I'm in no real hurry to try the pickled arachnids either.  

I'm not sure there's a market for carbonated bourbon, but I've been wrong before.

 I'm ashamed to admit that had crossed my mind in all of this.
 

Since this topic has been successfully threadjacked, my favourite of their blog posts is 

How to become a Seafood Anesthesiologist

Since this topic has been successfully threadjacked, my favourite of their blog posts is 

How to become a Seafood Anesthesiologist

Wow. I might have to set aside a few several weeks to confirm their results.

Wow. I might have to set aside a few several weeks to confirm their results.

The cocktail weenies obsess over this stuff, for example in this article.

And so far everything I have pontificated has been a total swag as well though not because of fear of the truck.  I think the reason you get an extra point for a mathematician is we tend to be just a bit lazier (the proof of this is trivial and left to the reader as an exercise).  I did say that over the small temperature range of any practical method heat of fusion would far and away dominate the calculation.   If no state changes are involved though material will make a difference and even though mass might be a good first order approximation what it's made of will have a significant effect as well.  Just intuitively I suspect going metallic would be a bad choice.  Even though they are quite dense the have very very low specific heats.  Conductivity is really more about how quickly it can pull all the heat it's going to out of the whisky before it starts it's climb back to room temperature rather than how cold it will make it.  It's not obvious to me whether this is a plus or not and shape of the ersatz ice most likely has a bigger effect on it anyway.  If it is a positive though we should probably look at using diamond which has an even higher conductivity than steel.  I don't think you deserve the full three points until I do the other materials and get a real value for the liquid nitrogen but I did look up stainless to compare against water which I didn't need to look up.  7.5 - 8 g/cm³ and  0.11 cal/g °C  for  0.82 - 0.88 cal / cm³ °C  as opposed to water's 1.0  cal / cm³ °C.   Ice would be a little less dense but even without its heat of fusion probably still has a slight edge.  Obviously the colder you can make something the more a small 10 - 20% difference will make.