Re: I had two beers upon arrival to my house

Quiet, Huck Kennedy <tempehuck@xxxxxxxxx> -- I'm transmitting rage.

On Jul 7, 7:31 pm, Steve Cutchen <max...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's what I remember.

He said that you should never buy Guinness from a bar that doesn't sell
a lot of it.  It goes stale.

See my rule #1.

He drew the glass first pass, and it hat a lot of head.  Maybe over
50%. He set it down at the tap and let it settle.  The cascade was
beautiful.  As it settled, the head when from a tall foam to a thiner
whipped cream texture.  Not like a normal beer head at all.  When it
had settled to the right size of head,

Actually what determines when the resting interval is over is
that the cascading is completely over. 2-3 minutes.

This is not what the master brewer at the Guiness.com site says. A few
seconds is all he demonstrates.


he topped of the glass with an
additional pour.  I don't recall the frontward, backward thingee.

It took me a long time to notice this. Forward on the first
pour, back on the second. Apparently the Guinness comes out at
different rates of speed.

Then
he let that set again, so that the head would reform properly.  Then he
brought it to me.

The place I go to assumes you know enough on your own not to
start drinking until the 2nd pour settles. If you don't, fuckya.
Makes sense, that way not as many pints pile up waiting around to be
served.

As I sipped it, the head rolled back in the glass and thinned out.  I
got a little bit of the creamy head, and mainly beer out from
underneath (which is a bit different than Huck's no head rule...)

You can't help imbibing some small amount of the head, but you
try to avoid it. You drill a hole with your upper lip, then start
sucking down the pint. You always make a very big dent on the first
attack, because the first hit of a new pint is always the best.

The key was to build the head properly so that it was the right
thickness and the right consistency, while at the same time filling the
glass to full.

The backwards thingie. Plus, the first pour is onto the side
of the glass at a 45-degree angle, the second is straight down the
middle.

Here is an amusing description I found that is remarkably
accurate and complete, for the most part:

http://tinyurl.com/muxwrz

Huck





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