When you're pounding beers to, well, feel the effect of them, it's likely you're drinking them straight from the can or bottle, and that's great — they wouldn't come packaged that way if they tasted terrible served up in that fashion. But if you have a nice or a limited edition stout (which, depending on the brand, ), you'll want to really taste and savor it, and to do that, you'll need to pour it into a pint glass. Pouring a beer from a can or bottle to a glass doesn't sound like rocket science, and it isn't; but there is a right way to do it, according to Kamaron Lockwood, craft bartender and recipe developer for the video for Chowhound.
If you're just dumping the beer out of the bottle or can straight into the glass, letting it foam up, you're not maximizing your beer experience — as Lockwood lays out, you need to use a rinsed glass, control the flow of beer, and angle the glass correctly to get the perfect pour. The details of a perfect beer pour Since pouring it into a glass helps beer to "open up" and lets him "get his nose into the beer a little bit more," Lockwood recommends starting with a clean, rinsed pint glass that helps "lubricate to allow for a smooth pour of a beer, and it also gets rid of debris and particles, so that way it doesn't tamper with the actual head of the beer, causing it to overreact." Then, you'll pick up your can or bottle with one hand and, , lightly tip it so that the beer runs down the interior side of the glass.
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