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Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
Trevor Landry, NL Group’s beverage director, also developed a nitro Negroni on tap for Pizza Leila.
—Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
This espresso martini uses Hudson’s ShortStack Rye Whiskey, cinnamon sweet cream, nitro cold brew, Kahlua, maple syrup, and both 5-spice and cherry bark bitters.
—Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Come sunrise, feed your nitro cold brew fix, then indulge in breakfast tacos or a banh mi.
—Megha Mcswain, Chron, 26 Aug. 2022
Cold brew and nitro cold brew are not included in the free-of-charge offer.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
In the back of the house, where Sessions’ household staff once prepared his dinners, is a small coffee bar equipped with an espresso machine and a kegerator used to make nitro brews.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
This celebration of British styles includes ales served through nitro taps or hand-pulled through a cask engine without extraneous carbonation.
—Adele Chapin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
For those who don't want beer, offerings also include City Orchard cider, Dublin soda, wine and nitro coffee from Rasa Libre.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 27 June 2022
Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
This sugar-free nitro cold brew is made with a slow-steeped blend of Latin American and African coffees.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
On International Coffee Day the nitro lattes are 20% off.
—Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2021
The quickest nitro-burning Funny Cars (which also use centrifugal clutches) are a tick behind at around 3.8 seconds and 333 mph.
—Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
Bandimere Speedway: At a track tucked against a hillside near Denver, hear an NHRA nitro Funny Car echo off a canyon.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2022
Try the at-home nitro cold brew maker, which saves him money and time.
—Annie O’sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Apr. 2022
From multiuse coffee clips to an at-home nitro cold-brew keg, accessories and gadgets to further enhance the coffee drinking experience are key in this list.
—Sarah Madaus, SELF, 29 Oct. 2021
Other Bay Area roasters such as Highwire have teamed up with Santa Cruz company Steeped Coffee to offer individual-sized bags of ground coffee, nitro-sealed to stay fresh.
—Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2021
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Adjective
Despite its manual transmission, Grubb Worm’s 6.61-second ET puts it in rarefied territory with the fastest non-nitro drag racing cars in the world.
—Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
Trevor Landry, NL Group’s beverage director, also developed a nitro Negroni on tap for Pizza Leila.
—Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
This espresso martini uses Hudson’s ShortStack Rye Whiskey, cinnamon sweet cream, nitro cold brew, Kahlua, maple syrup, and both 5-spice and cherry bark bitters.
—Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Come sunrise, feed your nitro cold brew fix, then indulge in breakfast tacos or a banh mi.
—Megha Mcswain, Chron, 26 Aug. 2022
Cold brew and nitro cold brew are not included in the free-of-charge offer.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
In the back of the house, where Sessions’ household staff once prepared his dinners, is a small coffee bar equipped with an espresso machine and a kegerator used to make nitro brews.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
This celebration of British styles includes ales served through nitro taps or hand-pulled through a cask engine without extraneous carbonation.
—Adele Chapin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
For those who don't want beer, offerings also include City Orchard cider, Dublin soda, wine and nitro coffee from Rasa Libre.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 27 June 2022
Noun
The menu item, available now, combines cinnamon and caramel flavors mixed into a classic Starbucks nitro cold brew.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
This sugar-free nitro cold brew is made with a slow-steeped blend of Latin American and African coffees.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
On International Coffee Day the nitro lattes are 20% off.
—Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2021
The quickest nitro-burning Funny Cars (which also use centrifugal clutches) are a tick behind at around 3.8 seconds and 333 mph.
—Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
Bandimere Speedway: At a track tucked against a hillside near Denver, hear an NHRA nitro Funny Car echo off a canyon.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2022
Try the at-home nitro cold brew maker, which saves him money and time.
—Annie O’sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Apr. 2022
From multiuse coffee clips to an at-home nitro cold-brew keg, accessories and gadgets to further enhance the coffee drinking experience are key in this list.
—Sarah Madaus, SELF, 29 Oct. 2021
Other Bay Area roasters such as Highwire have teamed up with Santa Cruz company Steeped Coffee to offer individual-sized bags of ground coffee, nitro-sealed to stay fresh.
—Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2021
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“Nitro.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nitro. Accessed 27 Mar. 2023.
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nitro
1 of 2 adjective
ni·tro
ˈnī-(ˌ)trō 
: containing or being the monovalent group NO2 united through nitrogen
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