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Advanced Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Use beer-clean glassware

Syllabus Path

Beer-clean glassware sheets water, passes the salt test, forms and retains foam, avoids sidewall bubbles, and leaves lacing. Use beer-clean tests to diagnose whether a pour problem is glassware, beer, or draft-system related.

  1. I. Keeping and Serving Beer
  2. F. Beer glassware
  3. 2. Use beer-clean glassware

Study Guide

Read the full study guide: Beer Glassware Guide

Exam Focus

  • Explain use beer-clean glassware as a service topic within Beer glassware.
  • Recognize grease, detergent, sanitizer, lipstick, food residue, bubbles clinging to the wall, poor lacing, and rapid foam collapse as glass-condition evidence.
  • Trace a failed beer-clean test back through washing, rinsing, sanitizing, drying, storage, or handling and correct the applicable step.

Core knowledge

  • Beer-clean glassware sheets water, passes the salt test, forms and retains foam, avoids sidewall bubbles, and leaves lacing.
  • Soil, grease, dairy residue, lipstick, sanitizer, and detergent residue can damage foam or add flavor.
  • Three-sink and dedicated-machine workflows both require correct detergent, rinse, sanitizer, water temperature, nozzle flow, and mold checks.

Study application

Use beer-clean tests to diagnose whether a pour problem is glassware, beer, or draft-system related.

References

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