Who are your "desert island 5?" (a totally frivolous post)

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Head is important. You have to get *just* the right amount. Isn't this done by inverting the bottle in the pint glass, so as it pours, the mouth is kept below the surface of the beer?

Uh, wouldn't the beer remain in the bottle if you did that? That's the principle by which our critter-waterers worked.

thought it was done by tilting the glass slightly and pouring into the downward side of the glass.

Uh, yep what Knotted said. Beer won't pour if the mouth of the bottle is below the surface. Same principle as bell helmet diving. Oh, and what Trek said too. Keeps the head from building up from the carbon dioxide. A clean glass will give a bigger head normally than a used one because the CO2 releases to the surface rather than clinging to the sides. So refills are typically smaller heads if poured the same way. I love going to all the micro breweries around here. You can "learn" so many new and important things about beer and life in general. (I'm just full of useless facts like that. It's the worthwhile intelligent stuff I can't retain.)

**Ahem - staying away from the rest of that discussion.