How To Pour Hefeweizen
How to Pour Hefeweizen. Don't suffer from deadly foam-over when pouring your German wheat beer. Here's how to pour a Hefeweizen, from Joe Six-pack Beer Reporter. Learn how to Pour Hefeweizen the German way..
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How Not To Pour Hefeweizen
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How many times has this happened to you? That's no way to pour a Hefeweizen! Not one but two great ways to end the agony of sudsy pour over.
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Hefeweizen Explained
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Hefeweizen is German wheat beer with the yeast still in the bottle. That's why it foams so easily. The first thing you need is the right glass. A nice tall one here will hold all the beer and the foam.
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Pour The Beer
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There's two ways to pour the beer. Take your glass, tip it at 45 degrees, put the neck of the bottle right against the glass and let it slowly start; no glug or glugging. Act right now and I'll show you a second special way to pour.
Flip the glass. Stick the bottle all the way in and then invert. Don't be afraid, it's easy. Slowly and steadily, pull the bottle from the glass. The beer will flow smoothly. It looks dangerous but it works. Guaranteed with no mess or your money back. Just look at that head.
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Finishing Touches
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When you're finished, take the bottle of beer, roll it on the table just like this. It loosens up the yeast that's left in the bottle. Swirl it around and dump it straight into the glass. Check out how cloudy this beer is. The yeast is still in the glass. It's perfectly good to drink just that way. Don't be a sucker. Pour Hefeweizen the Joe Six Pack way.
