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Advanced Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Pouring nitro beer

Syllabus Path

Nitro service uses mixed gas and a restrictor faucet to create cascading bubbles and a dense head. Diagnose nitro beer by gas, faucet, temperature, cleanliness, settle time, and expected low-CO2 texture.

  1. I. Keeping and Serving Beer
  2. H. Serving draft beer
  3. 3. Pouring nitro beer

Exam Focus

  • Explain pouring nitro beer as a service topic within Serving draft beer.
  • Connect mixed-gas dispense, high restriction, restrictor-plate breakout, cascade formation, and lower carbonation to nitro presentation.
  • Use the complete nitro pour and settling sequence, then diagnose absent cascade or poor head without treating it like a standard CO2 pour.

Core knowledge

  • Nitro service uses mixed gas and a restrictor faucet to create cascading bubbles and a dense head.
  • The pour usually fills partway, settles for 1-2 minutes, then finishes down the middle.
  • Common faults include wrong gas blend, warm beer, dirty restrictor plates, and serving before the cascade settles.

Study application

Diagnose nitro beer by gas, faucet, temperature, cleanliness, settle time, and expected low-CO2 texture.

References

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