Pour in a More Frothy Beer to Reduce Bloating
If you are carefully pouring beer from a bottle into a glass, slowly, so that you do not get dizzy, then you are doing it wrong.
Spilling beer without emitting CO2 from it (i.e. the head) means that instead of forming a delicious foam on the surface of the glass, this foam forms in your belly. Have you ever gotten a “beer bloat” after tossing a few? Now you know why.
In Business Insider, certified Cicerone (the beer version of the sommelier) Max Bakker explains why you always want to drink beer from a glass and you always want to pour it in a way that destroys some of that CO2. Bakker’s demo is a little extreme, but you can get the point.
The correct way to pour beer is to hold the glass at a 45 degree angle and the beer in the middle of the side of the glass. Ideally, you should do this a short distance away (not directly above the glass) to add some air in between when the beer comes out of the bottle and into the glass. Once your glass is half full, turn it upright and continue pouring from the top. The ideal head for most beers is 1 “to 1.5”.
You don’t have to do it as aggressively as Bakker did (he contrived to spill beer all over the table like a hobbyist), but if you take the same concept and slow it down a bit by letting parts of your head scatter as you pour, your tummy will be much happier. And your beer will taste better: good foam will help release beer aromas.