Beer / pint glasses

[Scuzi]

The local has just hit the £7 mark for a pint of Stella, so I've been trying to recreate the experience at home. The pub is mostly empty so I don't go for the craic, it's mostly because they serve up an excellent pint of Stella or Peroni. The beer holds a good head all the way down and doesn't go flat at all. I thought this was mostly because the beer was draught, but I have recently had 660ml bottles at restaurants and they have been excellent - much the same as the local pint.

I observed that the glass it is served in is clearly part of this, so I bought a pair of Peroni style nucleated glasses and poured in the beer from a bottle. After about a minute, the head was gone. Half way down, it was mostly flat.

The glasses, bought from Amazon, look like proper pub glasses, and I'm guessing the bottles I buy aren't any different than those served in the restaurants, so what am I doing wrong? Do I have duff glasses?

 

[BUDFORCE]

mostly because they serve up an excellent pint of Stella or Peroni.

.......and you lost me there.

 

[Mr Badger]

Isn't Stella these days supposed to be a watered down imitation of the original 5.2% beast?

Anyway, I'm not one to encourage criminality. But has it seriously never occurred to you to "borrow" one of your used pub glasses to try at home?

 

[Scuzi]

.......and you lost me there.

Let me guess. You drink PROPER beer for REAL men?

Isn't Stella these days supposed to be a watered down imitation of the original 5.2% beast?

Anyway, I'm not one to encourage criminality. But has it seriously never occurred to you to "borrow" one of your used pub glasses to try at home?

Stella is a shadow of its former self, but I still find a well presented pint thoroughly enjoyable.

I have had quite a few loaner glasses over the years but I think a stolen pint glass in this case might eat into the razor thin margins just enough to force the pub into closure, and I can’t be a part of that. I thought I did the decent thing by buying them, but so far it has been a waste of money.

 

[Kelt]

Let me guess. You drink PROPER beer for REAL men?

Stella is a shadow of its former self, but I still find a well presented pint thoroughly enjoyable.

I have had quite a few loaner glasses over the years but I think a stolen pint glass in this case might eat into the razor thin margins just enough to force the pub into closure, and I can’t be a part of that. I thought I did the decent thing by buying them, but so far it has been a waste of money.

Buy them from the pub.

 

[Scuzi]

Buy them from the pub.

This possibility has never crossed my mind. Is this a thing?

 

[InkZ]

Is this a request for proper head?

 

[Scuzi]

Is this a request for proper head?

I want good head at home. I don’t want to have to go half a mile down the road and get fleeced for the privilege.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Is this a request for proper head?

You offering?

 

[BUDFORCE]

Let me guess. You drink PROPER beer for REAL men?

Yes depending, more modern IPAs actually.

But there is nothing wrong with good larger.

When I started drinking, the off licences in North London where I grew up all shipped the booze is from France in the back of vans etc. And it was the proper stuff, so actually brewed and canned/bottle in the country of brand origin.

Even Carlsberg, if you got the actual stuff, tastes nothing like what you get now, Grolsch from a swing top bottle, you popped the lid and the smell that came out of it.

The vast majority of lager now is brewed in one of about 5 different places in the UK under license, and is all dismal. I call it Northampton Canal Water, based on the big one in Northampton, chances are you've had lager brewed, well not even brewed really, from there.

It's actually really quite difficult to get proper lager these days, Aldi do a German one, although it's not best example as a little bitter, but it's a whole lot better than NCW still.

Modern version Stella and Peroni, you might as well call it NCW as you are just drinking the same thing, don't even get me started on Madri lol.

If you enjoy it fine, it's like going in you the coffee thread and saying you like instant Nescafé.

 

[Kelt]

This possibility has never crossed my mind. Is this a thing?

I've done it in the past, bought a couple of Guinness glasses from my old regular, long time ago though.

No harm in asking, they can only say yes or no.

 

[Brazo]

Nucleated glasses have a laser etched pattern on the internal base like a grid. Check yours have this.

 

[Scuzi]

Nucleated glasses have a laser etched pattern on the internal base like a grid. Check yours have this.

They do, but rather than a steady stream of bubbles from it there is only a sporadic single line of bubbles. I don't know if that is down to the glass or the beer.

 

[tomparker95]

I found this. If you put a dollop of washing up liquid in the glass, stick some boiling water in it with the rest warm/lukewarm water and rinse thoroughly with cold water it will clean it all and keep the head on the beer properly.

 

[sigma]

I found this. If you put a dollop of washing up liquid in the glass, stick some boiling water in it with the rest warm/lukewarm water and rinse thoroughly with cold water it will clean it all and keep the head on the beer properly.

So it's the shoddy 'cleaning' in pubs rather than the glasses!

 

[JonRGV250]

This possibility has never crossed my mind. Is this a thing?

It is.
Although I get mine for free from our community owned pub when they swap out for new ones.

 

[Too Tall]

Beavertown do some nice glasses.

 

[mattyg]

So it's the shoddy 'cleaning' in pubs rather than the glasses!

No they are probably clean just not renovated.
The main secret to a decent head on a pint is how its poured. But even a decent pour can't get around a glass that needs to be renovated.
OP, google glass water break test to check your glasses to see if they are clean or need renovating

 

[sigma]

No they are probably clean just not renovated.
The main secret to a decent head on a pint is how its poured. But even a decent pour can't get around a glass that needs to be renovated.
OP, google glass water break test to check your glasses to see if they are clean or need renovating

I'd assumed non-contact washing isn't proper/effective cleaning. I guess it depends on the chemicals though.

Not to wander too far off topic.

 

[mattyg]

I'd assumed non-contact washing isn't proper/effective cleaning. I guess it depends on the chemicals though.

Not to wander too far off topic.

Commercial glasswashers wash a load within 90 seconds. The chemicals are nasty.

I pulled the pipe out of one when cleaning behind. It splashed a very small amount across my face which resulted in a trip to A&E having my eye flushed out for an hour, A week of eye drops and when I woke the next morning I had a burn line across my face. Luckily it didn't scar. They also do a final rinse at about 90deg to sanitise.

Non contact is the preferred way, Providing they've removed lipstick etc first. using a cloth to clean one glass then using the same cloth to "Clean" another is just moving dirt around. And hand washing wont be at a temp or length of time to kill germs.