Recently, a 34-year-old man in Mexico was admitted to the hospital due to intense pain he felt in his stomach after drinking a liquid nitrogen cocktail at a bar. Consuming Liquid Nitrogen Can Be Incredibly DangerousWhile the effect created by adding liquid nitrogen to a drink is undoubtedly cool and makes for a good photo for social media, it comes with some serious risks. Liquid nitrogen is, as the name suggests, the liquid form of nitrogen gas, frozen at extremely cold temperatures below -320.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Just as ice will return to its liquid state (water) when it’s exposed to above-freezing temperatures, liquid nitrogen will revert back to its gaseous form as it warms, expanding nearly 700 times in volume. After reading about the liquid nitrogen-infused cocktail that caused a man’s stomach to burst, learn about the history of beer and who invented it.