Although it's an easy thing to overlook, the way you pour beer has an outsized impact on how much foam is produced. Here are five different pouring methods.

But many pourers will keep the glass tilted until the beer runs out. No foam, no mess. Right? Wrong. When you don’t let any foam loose during your pour, the CO2 stays dissolved in the beer itself.

Pouring beer without letting any CO2 out of the beer (i.e. making a head) means that instead of creating a delicious foam on top of your glass, that foam is instead being created in your belly.

The process of actually pouring out a perfectly good beer almost reflexively causes me to cringe. But from a rational perspective, I have a hard time justifying this.

We've probably all experienced the sensation of taking a sip of our favorite beer on tap at a bar and thinking, "Why does this taste so much better?" At home cans and bottles are a common method of ...