Saturday, November 24, 2007

The art of Pouring Home Brew Beer

This sounds easy and just in case you don't know you know you cannot pour beer like soft drink unless it is flat.
Also home brew beer has yeast sediment on the bottom of the bottle so be gentle with it unless you do not mind a cloudy beer.

First of all make sure the beer is cold. Around two or three degees celsius.
Pop the cap take your glass and tilt the top towards the bottle.
Now touch the rim of the glass against an area just below the mouth of the bottle.
Tip the bottle up gently until beer begins to run out.

If you are doing it right beer will run down the inside of the glass from the top all the way to the bottom.
The whole idea is to get the beer into the glass without disurbing it too much as that will make it froth up.
As the glass is near to being full note how much head(froth) is on the beer. If it is only very thin just lift the bottle away a little to cause the beer to froth a little. By now the glass should be upright and just as the head meets the rim stop pouring.

You should now have a glass full of beer. There may be some froth run over but with practice you will get it every time.