Beer glases

I have a few expensive beer glasses that use to hold a great head, and also display the lacing right down to the last drop. Now they are useless for enjoying fine beers, as they have lost this ability. Is there something I can do to them (special cleaning etc) to recover the head and lace holding qualities of these glasses, or should I give up on them and go but some more ?. Cheers.

Reply to
Steve Paris
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Clean them with very hot water and nothing else. Soap will kill a head.

Reply to
Telesma

Certain things and their residue (for example, milk) will definitely kill heads like there's no tomorrow.

I suggest washing out the glasses as if they had just formerly held cow dung or toxic waste--HOT soap and water, lots of it, then bleach or other sanitizers, then LOTS of hot-hot-hot water. Scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse, rinse. Then be sure to use said glasses ONLY for beer, and rinse accordingly, using soap ONLY if "contaminants" enter the glass.

Dishwashers of the conventional home type can also cause the same effect. Assume they'll coat your glasses with scum, and scrub/rinse them accordingly.

Reply to
Alexander D. Mitchell IV

Just wash them with a good detergent. I wash all my beer glasses by hand in the sink using a regular dishwashing liquid like Dawn and they all allow a fine head w/ lace from top to bottom. The other post about dishwasher cleaned glasses is bogus, too. My buddy has a collection of over 3 dozen beer glasses, some very expensive, and they are all washed in a dishwasher and all work just fine. It's my opinion that if you are not getting a head and/or lace, it's because your glasses are simply not clean. Hot water and a detergent should do the job.

nb

Reply to
notbob

The other post about dishwasher

*I said "can". It depends on the choice of dishwasher detergent and any use of rinse/dry agent. Suffice it to say that the bars that I patronize that have "good" beer glasses don't run them through even a commercial dishwasher, but wash them by hand with a rinse agent.
Reply to
Alexander D. Mitchell IV

My rinse agent is tap water.

nb

Reply to
notbob

Depends on the water quality, too. Our local water has screwed up a LOT of my beer glasses when they get run through the dishwasher (don't ask why, I don't live by myself, okay?). I don't think it's the soap, or the "rinse agent," but the water. It's an intermittent problem, but it's definitely real.

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Reply to
Lew Bryson

This point about water made me think of a related water matter. I think the reason some beers taste different when they are contracted is simply because the source water is different.

Reply to
Arptro

I've always understood that dishwashers + hard water can etch the glass, making it permanently hazy.

Still I always larf at those who make the cleaning of beer glasses into some mystical magical ritual. I clean them like I clean any other dish or glass: hot water and soap, a good rinse and air drying. The only precaution I take is to not use an abrasive pad on any painted on logos.

If there was really a problem with soap remaining in glasses, then we'd be tasting soap in our glasses of water or soda, or in our food.

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Expletive Deleted

i really loved this thread but here is the answer to HOW TO WASH YOUR GLASSES AND DISHES.

wash in dishwasher or sink with whatever you use. in a dishwasher put vinegar in the rinse dispenser if you are cleaning in the sink, just rinse with water and a a tablespoon or

2 of vinegar. Now your dishes are squeaky clean, and bright, and not putting soap in your stomach, and SURPRISE the beer and wine glasses will work GRANDLY. )really doubt you need better HEAD than that ?(

and about eating SOAP my momma, rarely made me eat soap.

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dug88

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