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Certified Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Use Beer-Clean Glassware

Syllabus Path

Beer-clean glassware is free of residues that harm foam, aroma, and appearance.

  1. I. Keeping and Serving Beer
  2. F. Beer glassware
  3. 2. Use beer-clean glassware

Exam Focus

  • Clean every glass before refilling.
  • Know three-sink and dedicated glass-washer procedures.
  • Use sheeting, salt, head retention, bubbles, and lacing as cleanliness checks.

What to know

Beer-clean glassware is free of residues that harm foam, aroma, and appearance.

Syllabus detail

  • Refilling rule: every glass must be cleaned before refilling; do not refill a used glass.
  • Three-sink cleaning: sudsless detergent, overflowing cool rinse water, and correctly concentrated sanitizer.
  • Dedicated glass-washing machines: avoid food and dairy residue, maintain correct detergent, sanitizer, water temperature, and nozzle flow, and check for mold or debris.
  • Beer-clean checks: sheeting, salt test, head formation and retention, absence of sidewall bubbles, and lacing after sips.

Study task

Be ready to explain use beer-clean glassware in the context of beer glassware and apply it to a realistic Certified Cicerone® service, tasting, brewing, style, or pairing scenario.

Key Terms

Use beer-clean glassware
Clean every glass before refilling.

References

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