Noticeable Legs

Zymurgrafi said:

I believe legs refer to, hmm, how to describe...

The way the liquid clings to the glass. Not the foam sticking around, that would be lacing. In a dextrinous beer as you are sipping it there will be "residue" of the liquid trailing on the sides of the glass. Boy, that is hard to describe. Did that make sense?

I may not be right either, so I am interested to hear if what I have always presumed is correct.

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JMD87 said:

That's the way I understand it as well. I'll give you a visual example. Imagine you have a glass of syrup, and a glass of water. Now swirl it around so it coats the inside of the glass. If I'm right, the legs would be how long it takes the liquid to get off the inner walls of the glass. So syrup would have (a lot of?) legs, as it's so thick it will take a while to get off the insides of the glass, and water would have virtually no legs.

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