Ya'll,
Very interesting that head, head retention, and carbonation,
are different concepts.
I never really thought about it.
After 15 years brewing I am just begining to develop an acute awarness of hops and their varying effects on ale.
'Sanitizers having an effect on head retention'.
Wow. Thats a new one.
I don't wash my beer glasses unless someone else drinks out of them.
Or unless they get to where you can't see the insides any more because of the 'dirt glaze'.
And 'Dawn' made my hands dry out so bad
that I needed to buy hand lotion.
Good for washing the 'quenching oil' and 'forge soot'
off knives after quenching and before putting them in the tempering oven.
But hard on ones skin.
I just stopped using Dawn, 'a false economy',
and use Ivory again, and when they do get washed,
I rinse them very well.
But the concept that 'head' and 'carbonation',
are two different things is interesting in that
I have seen pictures of a waitress in Germany, with great big tits,
serving biers, three in each hand,
with a head on them 3-4" high.
I remember thinking Hmmm...
Too much carbonation, I wonder how the german folk can stand it.
It would bust my gut.
Must be for the tourists.
But if head and carbonation are not the same thing,
I can have a nice head on my ale without all the gut ache pain,
belches and farts.
Hmmm,
I have learned something new and important.
Knowledge comes in bunches, don't it?
J. Knife
and his world famous coon dog...
'Sandymay'.
{She's asleep on my bed right now}
It was too muddy to hunt last night