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Why do stouts foam so much when you pour them over ice cream?
I was just making a stout float and noticed that my beer foamed up a ton.
It's not a very carbonated beer (there was barely a hiss when I opened the growler), yet the head was several inches with not very much beer poured into the chilled mug.
What…

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What is the significance of a beer's head?
In many beer tasting guides it tells to describe the head, or to 'admire' the head of the beer. From Wikipedia, I understand that:
Beer head (also head) is the frothy foam on top of beer which is produced by bubbles of gas, typically carbon…

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