How to Serve the Perfect Pint

How To Serve The Perfecrt Pint

How to serve the perfect pint

A perfect pint is an important component of part of your patrons experience in your establishment. Serving your customers a perfect pint can serve to ensure your credibility as a good bar and could help make sure your customers keep coming back.

In order to serve a perfect pint the draught stout, ale or lager needs to be brewed perfectly and stored at the correct temperature. It is important that it is dispensed through clean beer lines by gas at the right mix at the right temperature.

It is essential that glasses are cool, clean and dry and held under the tap at an angle of 45°. If you have branded glasses then ensure that you use these glasses when serving the product and that you present these glasses to customers with the brand facing towards them.

On top of these steps, the following are some more back to basics tips to serve perfect pints of;

Ale and lager

 Pull the tap handle forward until it is horizontal and fill the glass

 Do not let the beer overflow! Push the handle back if necessary until the head is just short of the glass.

 Hold the glass well below the rim and hand to the customer. Never touch the rim of the glass with your hand and make sure there is no overspill.

 A bit different to above, pull the tap handle forward until it is horizontal and fill the glass to between 15mm and 20mm from the top. Make sure that the tap spout never touches the stout.

 Leave the stout surge to settle

 After leaving to settle, top the glass up by pushing back the tap handle until the head is just short of the glass.

 DO NOT let the beer overflow or use a spatula to level the head.

 Hold the glass well below the rim and hand to the customer. Never touch the rim of the glass with your hand and make sure there is no overspill.

On top of these essential technical tips when serving of a perfect pint that it is poured professionally from a properly presented tap by professional and tidy bar staff. How To Serve The Perfecrt Pint

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