Frozen Glasses Mistreat The Beer
Sep 9, 2010
Do wine stewards pour white wine into frozen glasses straight out of the freezer?
What temperature glass is best for your beer?
Then why on earth would you pour fresh beer into a frozen glass? This practice is disrespectful to your beer. Time to create a better practice.
Why does it foam? Because the temperature difference is so drastic (from cooler to frozen environs), that the reaction is a huge unnecessary and frustrating head of foam. Any dramatic temperature change will do this. And it’s a crying shame waste of beer. Ever seen a bartender pour off all that precious beer in foam when it could have been averted?
You’ve put all the hard work and effort into the beer only to have it crystallize in the glass you’ve subjected the beautiful four ingredients to. Alas! It’s really not what the beer wants. Nor should it be what the consumer wants. Nor is it what educated consumers want (see a cycle forming here??)
Carolyn is right – Chilly glass, fine. Frozen, no. If you want ice beer, throw some cubes in the glass.
Teach people – your staff, servers, bartenders, taproom specialists – to use glasses of the proper temperature (too hot not good either). Room temperature or chilled, depending on the beer is best.
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