Comments on: Heineken http://www.beeraday.net/beer/heineken/ Drinking one beer a day and discovering new brew Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ahow628 http://www.beeraday.net/beer/heineken/comment-page-1/#comment-281 ahow628 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:14:59 +0000 http://www.beeraday.net/?p=1592#comment-281 My wife and I went to the Netherlands as a part of our honeymoon a couple year ago. While Heineken pretty much sucks as a beer, it is an amazing experience to drink it in Amsterdam. Also, the giveaways on the tour of the brewery are superb. Here's how it goes: 1) They serve it in a 10oz glass that is just a completely non-descript glass - no curves, no logo, nothing. 2) The tap they pour it out of has a little knob. Nothing like the big decorative tap-handles we have here. 3) It comes out of the tap at about 500 gallons per second. I'll let you guess what #4 is going be. 4) Massive amounts of foamy head. Luckily, every bartender carries around a plastic knife that they use to scrap the foam off the top of the beer. 5) They hand you a tiny little glass that is soaking-wet and dripping beer everywhere. Until you see it, you can't even believe that this is protocol for pouring beer. For every 10oz pour, 10oz is wasted and foam is intentionally added and then scraped off. Those Dutch are weird. My wife and I went to the Netherlands as a part of our honeymoon a couple year ago. While Heineken pretty much sucks as a beer, it is an amazing experience to drink it in Amsterdam. Also, the giveaways on the tour of the brewery are superb.

Here’s how it goes:
1) They serve it in a 10oz glass that is just a completely non-descript glass – no curves, no logo, nothing.
2) The tap they pour it out of has a little knob. Nothing like the big decorative tap-handles we have here.
3) It comes out of the tap at about 500 gallons per second. I’ll let you guess what #4 is going be.
4) Massive amounts of foamy head. Luckily, every bartender carries around a plastic knife that they use to scrap the foam off the top of the beer.
5) They hand you a tiny little glass that is soaking-wet and dripping beer everywhere.

Until you see it, you can’t even believe that this is protocol for pouring beer. For every 10oz pour, 10oz is wasted and foam is intentionally added and then scraped off. Those Dutch are weird.

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