How you've been drinking beer WRONG your entire life - BBC
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Cherry Healey gets some top tips on how to pour out and drink the perfect pint!
She uncovers the secrets of the perfect pint in a scientific study which shows that drinking beer from a curved glass makes it taste fruitier, while a frothy head and a higher temperature also improve flavour. Which is a win for the traditional British warm pint.
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1:56 When it's a choice of two options, 'over half' is not that impressive a statistic.
Tell me about it. I came here write the exact same thing, lol. 51%?
@@alexpf8355 over half could mean 80%
@Grant Robertson Good point, but at least the other two results came in at 70% (preference for head on beer) and 100% (preference for warmer beer). So they started with the weakest factor - the shape of the pint glass - and moved on.
@@whatshisname3304 or 100
I wrote the exact same thing before seeing this post.
"There is no wrong way to consume alcohol."
- Ron Swanson
Provided that your DRINKING it, as that episode showed
Any consumption of alcohol is the wrong way to drink alcohol
@Drop ammo please I mean, good luck with your liver disease.
Alcohol is just as dangerous as a gun.
@@RamsFan93 You silly person!
@@RamsFan93 alcohol is not dangerous when it's used to clean disease away. You silly person!
It important to have a healthy amount of head
7 months and still nobody has made a dirty joke with this comment? I am disappointed.
I need more head
Dick Dick What if it’s a dirty joke in itself?
You guys are getting head?
There's nothing better than a bartender who gives just the right amount of head.
1 minute in and know that I've been clickbaited.
I knew it less than 10 seconds in
As an alcoholic I disliked it before it started, coz i know that there is no such thing as "wrong consumption of beer". But I wanted to see what kind of crap they Will talk about.
@@TheIZI6 🤦🏻♂️
5seconds in and i can already tell its going to be shit
@@mikleman996 🤦🏻♂️
This is a perfect example of shit being chatted in a pub somewhere in the UK.
With your ale, sure. But try to serve a warmer pilsner beer here in Czech Republic and the customers would tear your head off.
@Jon Treasure Excellent!
Just as with wines, the paler and weaker the beer the lower the dispensing temperature weak (3.5% abv lagers) beers at 10°C, medium mid coloured beers (4.5% abv brown ales) at 12°C and higher strength dark beers (5.5%+ abv porters and stouts) at 14°C. The increasing temperatures are to release the more complex bouquets. The reducing temperatures are to hide the fact that the beers are very low in flavour and complexity. In the licensed trade beers dispensed at bellow 8°C are known as "little girls' drinks".
I can confirm that it's true, my head had been torn off before
@Jon Treasure Good lagers (Warsteiner, Oranjeboom, ....) are best appreciated at 10° whereas virtually flavourless lagers (Carling, Fosters, ....) are normally dispensed at 6-8° to hide the fact that they are bloody awful.
@Jon Treasure After nearly 50 years in the trade I think that I have some idea.
"have you been drinking beer wrong your entire life?"
No, I waited till I was an adult first
Does beer taste sour?🤔
@@akhileshchunam5094 some beers can i had a sour the other day
Puss
Why wait till you are adult when you can start enjoying it at 14?
GREAT to see this kind of info on the BBC! Though every style can be treated in different ways to get better flavour.
Plenty of foam on top and a warmer serving temp are all basic science - glassware is more perception but a small opening at the top (like a slight bowl shape) also concentrates aroma.
I drink beer. THATS the right way to drink beer.
I’ll have you know I’m fully ok with drinking beer wrong all my life.
I wake up with deep shame and a raging hangover everytime I do so I must be drinking it right
Vowwwwwww
That or you're a american lightweight
@nasser wiz Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the honorable fellow of the originating post was making a joke.
@nasser wiz You’re hard 😂
@@chronic4632 Beer isn't for getting drunk for me, that's where liquor comes in. You have to drink WAY too much volume to get a buzz going.
The beer at the beginning looks 'dead' to me, as we say in The Netherlands. Where's the head on that perfect draft? If I'd serve a beer to customers like that they'd ask why I had taken a sip and if I could get a new one.
That's basically why British beer has such low regard in Europe.
It's a shame some of the beer is very good and the pub culture is also good. Could be an export hit, but due to the lack of beer culture all what tourist to the UK tell is that their beer has no foam and everyone thinks it's shit.
"Over half" in a 2 choice test without quantifying how much "over half" is not a result. I mean, it could have been 50.1%, which would be statistically insignificant.
Wine: I am the greatest alcoholic drink of all time
Beer: Hold Me
Wine:tasty
Beer:tasty
Vodka:tasty
Alcohilism?
Probably
Beer: I got head
Gins so much better than anything else
Beer: hold my beer
Beer: hold my vodka
When I went to England with my parents and my father was ordering beer, they served it always room temperature? I couldn't get why?
Isn't a cold beer the best thing in the world?
0:37..."Shhhhurely, it's just about the beer in the glass?"
.....yes it matters about the beer and don't call me Shirley....
From a glass with head, right temperature depending on beer type, it absolutely changes everything about a beer. As one who loves Staropramen, i know how different it can taste depending on how you serve it.
This is such good research, for one particular style of beer, from I guess one particular brewery. Not every beer is made to be fruity. And I love a good head usually but there are many beers out there which taste better without. I know they are just trying to extrapolate from university research but a lot of that research is now out of date with the modern brewing techniques. I have many beer glasses depending on the beer but the old styles shown here I wouldn’t touch anymore. And neither do a lot of pubs I visit.
WRONG! Never touch the beer or the glass with the spigot.
David Boaz
Your wrong. Some great froughty headed pints of beer from stout glasses with spigot at the end
@@jonnybuttsleo3947 It is not a matter of the quality of the dispensed beer. Touching the glass or the beer with the spigot enables the passing of bacteria and viruses from one customer to the next and a good licencee would tell his bar servers never to do it.
Jonnybutts Leo You’re wrong. Some idiot bar staff refill glasses and this can result in cross contamination.
David Boaz. Bet you are a laugh down the pub
@@davidboaz8154 come to my town you'd shit your pants honey. my local pub/nightclub serves that many they dont wash there glasses they get rinsed through a bucket of luke warm water and then re served.
"a healthy amount of head". Sounds like a good nite to me 😂
I wish pubs would bring back the old, classic, dimpled, beer glass, that had a handle.
Sounds like a good Friday night; “Pint with the Head”
Title: How you've Ben drinking beer wrong ur whole life
Me: I don't drink beer I'm Muslim
Just came here to say this now byeeeeee have a great day
The scientist just wanted a free pint
I’ll drink however I want thank you very much
Ive heard the whole "your taste buds cant taste it when its cold argument" but i don't care or agree. A cold beer is so refreshing
no no. it is not "when its cold" it is "when its almost freezing". 3°c is ice beer. if someone is arguing against a normal degree of coolness they are idiots.
Is a Brit's life so boring that everything they consume is warm?
12 °c?? Serve it that warm here in Australia and we'll throw it back at ya!
Shut up mate you lot drink "fosters" that's like 2 percent I put that in my boys school packed lunch 😂
@@l9944 When I was a kid my brothers friend got a 4.8% er for their junior camping trip lol
@@Grandmaster-Kush 😂😂 result
We drink it with a head in Europa always lol
so with the first one about half thought the curved glass was better, that means about half didn't which means it's about 50/50 so more or less inconclusive.
The second one with the head makes sense it can also change some of the texture.
The temperature also makes sense but it depends on type and how you like it. Sometimes cooling something down can subdue certain notes that you would want to and bring out others and make it a little more cool and refreshing.
This is what my TV licence pays for to tell me I'm drinking beer wrong lol
Ridiculous isn't it?
@@LThaPunisha don't be daft
@@kolecava What?
To all the Brits, this is as if I made a video about tea drinking...and started with pouring milk into a cup and then proceeded to pour in boiling water, waited for a couple of minutes and then dipped the tea bag in. Imagine what that kind of video would do to you. :D
Britske piva su na picu, odpor, hnus 🤮
I don't know where you're from but it doesn't make you an authority on beers. Britain is an ale drinking culture, and guaranteed to be more expert on the subject than your nation. Fck off with the unearned condescending attitude.
I can say that your typical, mass produced, American beer tastes terrible when it's warmer! The craft beers and foreign beers are always more sip-able
Didnt need to add "when it's warmer", mate. They taste terrible, period
@asdf asdf i thought everyone knew americans drank alcoholic piss?
@@Dockhead I think that was the point.
Our mass produced beers are all lagers and I don’t think I’d try any lager or ale for that matter if it wasn’t cold. And our cheap beers that you’re referring to are actually very sipable if not gulpable, that’s the point, their strengths are reliability and the fact that they’re refreshing in the hot summer months that are typical in North America. They don’t taste bad per se, they’re just very weak in flavor. And honestly a beer like Heineken or Battin from Luxembourg is not that much better than Budweiser 🤷♂️
I think its almost by design. I heard from someone that they just skip the process of getting a nice flavour, and then say its supposed to be served cold and then you can't notice the bad flavours.
The video is only 2 years old but seems like 10 years out of date. Beer has moved on so much in the last 7 or 8 years with some fantastic stronger craft beers becoming available. I cant remember the last time I had a pint of a cask ale, preferring these days to sample stronger, more tasty ales in smaller measures! It may have been the done thing in the 80S to sink several pints of flat wallop before heading home, but beer drinking has changed!
Yes it tastes like... beer. And this one definitely tastes like beer too
This was a great video loved it!
Byw I’m drinking some beer rn and am so amazed! 😄
When she started talking about head did anyone else's mind wander?
"a PERFECT pint!"
Close to zero head retention
And of course the beer tastes better in the tulip pint glass. Its not because of the curve in your hand, its because youre getting that aroma when youre drinking (Which is like 90% of the taste experience). Same way you would prefer your wine out of a wine glass instead of a coffe mug.
Yea it’s insane to prefer warmer beer but I think the main reason it’s a thing there is bc it doesn’t get hot in the UK. If you did that exact same taste test in the US (or anywhere that gets hot) everyone would prefer the colder beer. Also I bet they poured that colder beer awhile ago and put it in the refrigerator to cool it down and the warmer one was freshly poured, that would make a huge difference in how it tasted.
If you served warm beer here in Australia you would soon know about it.
How many people were tested? How were the treatments randomized?
So, this is nothing more than how a person “thinks” it tastes different, not how it actually does taste different. In order for it to truly taste different would require an actual change to the beer itself, which does not occur here.
But what is taste but our personal perception? If we think it tastes a certain way then it does taste a certain way, to us
If you smelt a chocolate gateuax under your nose (deeply inhal the aroma) then bit into an orange, you would throw up. because your senses would think something's off with the gateaux.
When you understand how chemicals in your brain work, come back to me.
@@danielseaburg9763 when you learn that being rude is wrong then come back to me.
Flavorsome is not a word. And you missed the most important variable: time. Bartenders tilt the glass to fill it faster without having to scoop out foam and then top off. Customers universally agree: what is the best tasting beer? The beer in their hand RIGHT NOW.
Did that guy say "interesting notes"? Drink up and get out mate
tab ash and unknown cleaning fluids seem to do the job for my beer senses.
Wine in room temperature i cant drink, it has to be cold. That makes sense because you can definitely taste way more when its not cold.
Beers with off flavors are also hidden when it is colder. That’s why you don’t go to the “coldest beer cave in town”
I always doing that.... All my life 😂😂😂
Around the time she touched the faucet to the glass I stopped watching.
she isn't bar staff, give her a chance
how many takes to get that pull right.
No, the curved glass is just to trick yours eyes so you drink quicker, & then order more... money dug! It's not as much about the head but about how you pour it, you shouldn't pour it to "calmly" because you need to release some carbonation, that's why you might feel bloated, but this does also change the taste slightly! & there may be something about the different temps, but that would surely depend on the type of beer: "warm" or at least slightly chilled might be perfect for ales, wheat or darker stuff like porters or stouts, but you obviously want a colder pilsner on a hot day (where it almost always is where I live)
You don't touch the font on the glass for starters
Taste buds do not work when they are too cold. So I am going to heat up every salad I eat from now on.
Time to put my ice cream in the microwave!
I mean, I think you're missing the point. Ice cold beer just doesn't have as much flavor as it does after sitting for a few. I promise.
@@ChrisParlamas Yep, Beer should be cool to the touch but not cold, cold beer is Heineken and shit like that thats undrinkable once it warms up.
@@Grandmaster-Kush Indeed!
As belgian I cannot get over the non existent foam head
A pint used to be a pint. Now it is three times the price and only 530 ml at best.
Fascinating, I actually prefer beer without head; while my wife prefers it with.
Yes...
But I prefer getting head and my ex-girlfriend definitely wasn't into giving me any!!!
I think it also depends on the style of beer. Not all beers are the same 😑
Glassware should vary by style and ABV
Friend: Can you drink bear perfectly?
Me: Hold my beer!
Also me: Wait ,what?
Now I know why I end up in a pub toilet with my head over the bog I’ve been drinking beer wrong for the last 40 years
Oh, snap. So this is why the macro brew yellow beers "taste" better when they're just above freezing. It all makes sense now.
I prefer handle glasses, although I have heard that one of the reasons they stopped doing them was because of the scene in Trainspotting.
There was a place that did a 4 pint jug of beer, served with pint glasses. The jug had a handle on it so I used it as a giant glass but was taking a drink from it when the handle broke and 3 pints of beer and glass smashed on the floor. They kicked me out yet it was their crappy jugs fault, I just lifted it up and it fell apart.
"over a half of tasters, things curved glass is tastier" Ma'am that means the other half is on the straigth glass
Bell-shaped ist best for aroma though. Duvel out of Belgium have pretty good glasses.
No, it means leas than 50%, read the 1st word you wrote
@@kurtsudheim825 Govoriš li engleski
"Over a half" means majority..
A healthy amount of head is necessary for any great night out.
Pouring the beer wrong at the start is a clue this is bollox. Beer should be hard poured with a deep European 2-3 inch head. There's a reason beer tastes better with a head and it's because the more head the less gas there is. The gasses are used purely to preserve the beer and pouring a pint should release the gas so it's smooth and tastes how it was designed to taste and doesn't foam up in the mouth of stomach. Everything else here is secondary to the pour.
Do her fingers wrapped around the rims of the glasses add more flavor too?
Doesn’t matter how you drink it, you’re still going to wake up not knowing what you did and full of regret 👍🏼
one time i had a strong ale, swear the smell of it, smelled like my feet after a pub shift.
The point of drinking it cold is to cover up the taste of cheap beer
guys im an alcoholic and i will say drinking beer at room temperature is way eisier to drink fast and gets absorbed faster and taste better
Shittest pulled pints I’ve ever seen in my life..
agree
The only wrong way to drink beer is to not drink beer. I live to drink beer. Nothing else matters. I keep a beer log. So far this year, I have drank 1,863 beers. My log is likely on the low side, as during black out nights I have to guestimate the daily totals. I go for a new record each year. Beer is God.
Dutch and Belgians think the English don't understand the concept of beer....
It’s always preferable to receive head than to go without.
Looks like UK/US continue to drink beer wrong. Beer with minimal head or no head at all isn't beer. What makes it worse is that you have to drink that UK/US "beer" fast before air has had enough time to ruin the taste. Head/foam works as barrier between air and liquid in glass. It's beer anyway if you drink it: just let head be in that glass enough time and it turns to liquid beer. You can even drink beer that is only head, it's still beer but it's a lot sweeter.
You should keep the tip of faucet off the glass when pouring.
Did you watch a Bavarian weisse beer video about how to pour that beer?
A funnel A hose and your rectum ...Cause no one has time to chat and drink at the same time Thumbs up for the right way to drink beer
Different temperature for different beer, different glass for different beer. A lager should be served at about 8 degrees in a high thin glass, an ale at 12 degrees in a bellshaped glass, a stout or porter above 15 degrees in a round glass and a barley wine at almost room temperature in a wine glass or beer tasting glass. With head if possible.
Its 10c/12c for Beers
@@kolecava Not all beers are alike...
@@andvil01 yeah the 8c are the shit Fosters, Carling beers. Majority of decent beers specially in Central Europe are rated at 10c/12c enfact, I've yet to come across 8c beer...
How can I attend testing ?
as simply said bye chas and dave, I got my beer in the sideboard ere.
There’s always been science to beer drinking....always
She can tilt my glass
I really am grateful for the lesson on how to drink beer. Unfortunately, now i need to urinate and these kind folks who are very concerned with helping me understand how to drink beer correctly aren't showing me how to urinate. Do I need Joe Wilkinson to give my willy a nickname before I can proceed? Anything but Captain Hindgrinder. Maybe Stumpy McSkinhead? That which has crawled out of the kilt? I really won't know how to proceed without the BBC. I don't even know how it is that I am throwing these shapes together on a screen to try to communicate.
What is the healthiest amount of head?
Why not ask them if they taste different or NOT!? ... Why ask which one tastes different? Cant really disprove it with your own questions.
Mate trust me... shape of glass makes a difference 😅 I like my Strongbow Dark Fruit in a proper strongbow glass... when it’s put in a crap pint glass it tastes crap😅😂
I am NOT testing beers with that moustache man haha
if you serve a beer like that where i'm from, you'd get beat up lol
I wish they still did Guinness that wasn't extra cold. A warmer Guinness tastes so much better.
is it just for Ale?
or all sorts of beers?
in japan we dont drink Ales and prefer colder Lager that much
so, i dont think 12 degrees is not apply on us
anyway good videos, gotta go grab Pints
Cheers
Im pretty sure i hooked up with the anchor somewhere in some pub ....i just can't remember the place lol...
have never drank any alcohol or drugs in general.
@Joe McKenzie so you drink and take drugs to appear slightly interesting! IDIOT 🙄
What you doing here then ?
So why you watching?
So sometimes there's a real scientific explanation, like the head foam and temperature, and sometimes it's just all in our head, like the curved glass.
I like cold beer more, it is the best drink it after hard warm work.
Wow very interesting study. Can’t see how a curved glass would make a difference. Didn’t know that slightly wormer beer would taste better
IMO a good quality beer taste just as good warm, its the cheap stuff that taste horrible
Something else I've apparently been doing wrong my entire life, along with brushing my teeth and wiping my arse. Thank goodness for life coaches and influencers.
Real cask Ale should be served at 12 degrees c. Any self respecting ale drinker knew that. That’s not necessarily the case for lager.
Paler weaker beers should be served lightly chilled but dark strong beers should be served at 14+°C to release the complex bouquet.
I donno how people enjoy hard sprits, beer is life
A styrofoam cooler full of beer in either aluminum or glass and cooled with gas station bag ice is the perfect beer!
Different beer types and tap heads have different perfect pours.
The question which is more flavourful etc is flawed & unscientific it gives the impression that there should be a difference. The question should be do they taste similar or different?
If you tilts it at 44 degrees trow it away it’s not good anymore