{"id":274,"date":"2007-07-25T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T23:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/getting-your-glasses-beer-clean\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T04:16:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T10:16:25","slug":"getting-your-glasses-beer-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/getting-your-glasses-beer-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your glasses &#8216;beer clean&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20070410-saglass.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Lager glass\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>The specially designed <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/is-the-sam-adams-glass-really-better\/\">Samuel Adams beer glass<\/a> is back in the news &#8211; because Boston Beer has shipped thousands free to subscribers of Beer Advocate and All About Beer magazines as well as American Homebrewers Association members<\/p>\n<p>So that gives me a chance to add something missing from the first review: The new glass is hard to get &#8220;beer clean.&#8221; It might make you think those complaining about the unusual shape have a point.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, &#8220;beer clean&#8221; is an actual term in the bar and restaurant industry vocabulary. (Something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realbeer.com\/library\/beerbreak\/archives\/beerbreak20001012.php\">I wrote about<\/a> in Real Beer&#8217;s <em>Beer Break<\/em> newsletter back in the day.)<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already noticed the difference a clean glass makes, try this. Drink a glass of milk from a glass you don&#8217;t intend to use to serve beer. Wash it out a few minutes with hot water (no soap). Pour a beer. Is that the head you are used to seeing? The Belgian lace? <\/p>\n<p>Now wash the glass with soap. Pour another beer. Same problem? Soap film can be just as nasty a villain as other residue. Now wash the glass with baking soda. Pour another beer. This one probably looks better.<\/p>\n<p>Detergents may contain various fats or glycerin, which is why you are better off using baking soda. Another choice is dishwasher detergent (and then maybe baking soda).<\/p>\n<p>This is easier if you designate glasses only for beer &#8211; beside milk looks a little strange in the Trappist goblet. After washing them let the glasses air dry in a dish rack. If water droplets cling to a glass or if spots show while drying, then the glass is not clean. Wash it again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The specially designed Samuel Adams beer glass is back in the news &#8211; because Boston Beer has shipped thousands free to subscribers of Beer Advocate and All About Beer magazines as well as American Homebrewers Association members So that gives me a chance to add something missing from the first review: The new glass is &#8230; <a title=\"Getting your glasses &#8216;beer clean&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/getting-your-glasses-beer-clean\/\" aria-label=\"More on Getting your glasses &#8216;beer clean&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-beer-clean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11274,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/11274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}