Just as a restaurant’s or bar’s bathroom clues you in on how well kept the whole place is, so might the look of beer poured in a glass. Thrillist notes that bubbles down the sides of your pint is a sign your glass is not clean.
Photo by Smabs Sputzer
Instead of rising to the top, the carbonation gets stuck on the sides because of some type of debris — dirt, grease, or sanitizer (if you’re lucky). Congratulations. You will never enjoy draft beer again.
A commenter on the site adds that iit’s not really that the bubbles stick to the debris on the glass, but that “the debris provides a nucleation site”. Whatever. We just want clean glasses.
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3 responses to “Check If A Bar Is Unclean By Looking For Bubbles In Your Beer”
This is analogous to ionization of the atmosphere seeding clouds.
This could also be caused by fine scratches in the glassware.
Yes, thank you for that.