Japan's Robo-Bartenders point to a golden future Not content with wowing the world with the posterior polishing wizardry of their electronic toilet seats, the Japanese have turned their attention to that other first world problem: pouring of the perfect pint. In the past, thirsty customers have had to rely on the vagaries of the human/beer interface (more commonly known as …
Those do exist. I was served a cocktail in a Las Vegas bar which was mixed by a robot. Here it is in action:
Skinners - Cornish brewery, I used to hang out with the sales guy on occasion.
I just dumped a whole load of their t-shirts\sweatshirts down at the local thrift store, not worn them since I emigrated.
I also had to dump a whole load of their Betty Stogs mugs before leaving the country, someone in my household objected to me making a comment about the resemblance to her mother.
"just keep the glass tilter"
for hand pulled cask !!!!!!!
glass should be vertical at all times, sparkler (or not - for the heathen southern jessies) should be firmly against the bottom of the glass in the centre. Every cask is different requiring a different pull technique.
If I were drinking lager and someone poured me a glass with a head that big in the clip I'd be sending it back for a top up
(former winner of numerous CAMRA awards).
If I was in an esteemed drinking establishment (or pub) and I was served such a beer as displayed in that video my response to the bar keep would be "Have you got a flake to put in that?"
My own personal preference is 2mm for lager and 5mm for bitter. If I wanted a moustache I would grow one.
I like my beer cold thanks and where I am in the north the pints are served as described. My mother is also a barmaid at the local working men's club where they have an artist on every Saturday the likes of which you will never see on television. I don't have a whippet but I sometimes eat gravy for breakfast, it's also not a barm cake it's a muffin. What is this shandy you speak of?
It's a soft roll by any other name, as any fule kno!
I was thinking it was just about doing okay with the head, and was giving a brief pause to let it settle slightly before finishing the pour, then it did a dodgy Mr. Whippy impression all over the top - the only saving grace being that it was clearly lager and thus not of great interest in the first place.
And you can top that up too! --->
As head was huge.
A proper bar person asks what type of head a customer wants - preferences vary a lot. Some people like a frothy head whilst at teh other extreme others like a flat pint.
.. though in my days of bar work I worked in a traditional boozer, and it was bitter drinkers (of which there were many, rather than lager philes) who cared about head.
As any fule know, the beer glasses -- at Narita, in Japan and in most of Europe -- are lined to leave room for the head, not to be filled to the brim. Anyone whining because their beer isn't filled to the top, go back to England where pubs often serve beer with a head in glasses designed to be filled to the brim...
"Your head the morning after a skin full of NBA -->"
No real aficionado would refer to it as NBA. It;s Nukie Broon (which fits the icon better too)
Of course, now that's not even brewed in Geordieland, let alone Newcastle, it's not the same anyway, so re-branding as NBA might not be a bad thing.
"Could you fit a nip in there?"
"Aye"
"Well top it up then, I asked for a Pint"
Tradition was to hand over the first pint while filling the rest, the punter would drink the first mouthful, then ask for a topup (used the honesty principle to ensure that the first mouthful wasn't pint-sized)
Ah the seventies - where did they go?
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