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Is there any point to head on a beer other than that some people thinks it looks better?

It acts as a lip cushion...

Is there any point to head on a beer other than that some people thinks it looks better?

The right amount of head just tells you it's the right amount of fizzy. If there's no head often your beer will taste flat, but obviously it varies. I think it's just association, we think 'if it looks right it'll taste good'. I bet if you took the head off someone's beer then gave it to them they might say it tasted different. I certainly wouldn't trust a guinness with no head. Putting a head on a beer just for the way it looks is a bit like waxing oranges.

Weissbier? A German I know leaves a little bit in the bottle and shakes it around to get a similar result.

Though I suppose that might also be his urine.

There's no point in shaking it. All you have to do is pour it straight down, and it will fizz just fine. You just have to get your timing right, i.e. when to go from pouring almost horizontally to almost vertically.

Someone needs to teach one of the barmen in my local how to pull a Hoegaarden. At this rate that person will have to be me. Each time I have to ask him to top my pint up, once the head has stopped being able to be measured in acres. I'd rather be barred than drink his first offer.

^ yeah, obvs the most important thing about head is too much = less beer.

^ yeah, obvs the most important thing about head is too much = less beer.

If you have glasses without a calibration mark. In Germany, drinkers want beer up to the calibration mark and then as much of a head on top as possible = more beer. :)

The calibration mark will be around the bottom of the head on this.

If somebody served me a pint with a head like that I would ~~ ask for a flake ~~ tell them to top it up. I realise the continent is different.

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Can't get on with weissbier meself. Has this cloying tongue-furring quality that I just can't get on board with.

If you have glasses without a calibration mark. In Germany, drinkers want beer up to the calibration mark and then as much of a head on top as possible = more beer. :)

500ml though :(

If somebody served me a pint with a head like that I would ~~ ask for a flake ~~ tell them to top it up. I realise the continent is different.

you have ask for beer with your head if you want a decent size here

The fizziness from the head adds to the aromas - words like 'bouquet' etc

pfff. listen to you lot. this is why i drink WKD.

I love lots of head.

500ml though :(

And the cost of beer in Germany is what, and how does it compare to London pint prices? :)

Someone needs to teach one of the barmen in my local how to pull a Hoegaarden. At this rate that person will have to be me. Each time I have to ask him to top my pint up, once the head has stopped being able to be measured in acres. I'd rather be barred than drink his first offer.

Bastard was at it again not an hour ago. First pint pulled by barman A, or 'him with deftness of touch', arrived full of satisfaction. Good start. Then barman X, or 'exhibit A' of previous post, caught my eye as I tried to divert it when I needed replenishment, so the duty fell to him.

Of course I had to return it with an ever polite request for a top-up, to which he laughed and replied 'Same as always, eh?'. Yes pal. Every stinking time. Quit the fancy shite and pour me a full pint without shaking the glass like you've been electrocuted. Beer settles better that way, as does my rage.

I paid a fiver a pint in Berlin. Fifty pence in Krakow.

"Same as always, eh?'.

Cheeky bastard, he knew you'd ask. I would have set fire to the toilets.

And the cost of beer in Germany is what, and how does it compare to London pint prices? :)

I rode up to a fancy-smancy golf club on top of a mountain near Munich last month and fully expected to be fleeced, but paid 280 Europence for ein halb liter. I celebrated by having another.

I love german beer. I have a load of paper-thin 200ml Kolsch glasses here from an old German friend from Cologne who used to live in a bar there. He brought them over along with a barrel of the good stuff last time he was here. 200ml is the standard size there, two to three mouthfuls typically then I'l need a refill which keeps the bar staff busy particularly when it's always table service and you pay your bill on leaving. They circulate constantly with a tray of fresh ones and keep bringing replacements and marking your beermat till you signal "enough" by putting the beermat on top of your glass. If you don't know that you can get accidentally pissed pretty quick as they relentlessly replace your beer. Fun times.

He tells me that really valued customers get the ultimate honour of the 100ml glass which ensures that every other mouthful is the first from a freshly poured new glass.

genius.

Like these?

that's the 200ml but yep.

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