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Check out this week’s On Tap column for The Advocate that’s published here. On Tap: What should you drink your beer out of? Anything but a frozen mug. One of the most overlooked aspects of beer is how it’s served. Far too many people are content to pop a top and drink their suds straight from the bottle or can. In some cases, this is by necessity. However, if available, you should always pour your beer into a glass of some sort. The first benefit of using glassware for beer is obvious: You can see what that beer looks like. Like it or not, we drink with our eyes. By viewing the beer in the glass, we can immediately tell some things about it. Is it dark or light? Can you see through it, or is it opaque? Is it a fizzy beer or does it have low carbonation? The brewer of your beer intended you to drink it out of a glass. Drinking straight from the bottle or can robs you of experiencing the beer’s aroma. Aroma plays a huge part in how we perceive flavor. When drinking from a glass, you get … |
Source: The Ale Runner
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