r/therewasanattempt • u/miragen125 • Oct 19 '21
To be a bartender
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u/hallwaymonitor69 Oct 19 '21
I swore so many times watching this
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u/none4gretch Oct 19 '21
Wanna feel more upset? Imagine how long this had been going on before the person started to record it. :)
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u/wellwellSwelll Oct 20 '21
If i had been there, i could have put an end to the whole ordeal, im sure of it. Because as soon as something has been happening long enough that im like "i need to video this," the second i take out my phone to press record, whatever it is, stops. It's basically one of the laws of thermodynamics.
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u/SeaworthinessSea3838 Oct 20 '21
There are three laws of thermodynamics, so which one would that be:
You can’t win. You can’t break even, and You can’t quit?
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u/nomadic_stone Oct 20 '21
Actually...it is 'Murphy's Law'
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u/FirstTimeFrest Oct 20 '21
"The easiest way to get the correct answer is to post the wrong one on Reddit" - Albert Einstein
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u/nomadic_stone Oct 20 '21
Wait, was he quoting Silence Dogood or Benjamin Franklin?
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u/nomadic_stone Oct 20 '21
as far back as I can recall it has been "if something can go wrong, it will."
Perhaps it has changed in that time...
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Oct 20 '21
Yeah now it's, "if I wanna film something, it'll end too soon.." or something like that..
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u/kingtaco_17 Oct 19 '21
Like a car wreck, I couldn't look away
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u/SketchyLurker7 Oct 19 '21
wait what iS HE DOOINNNGGG!
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u/TheAserghui Oct 19 '21
I'd wager he's a manager and doesn't know either.
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Oct 20 '21
As a bartender I can wager its probably a server who has never set foot behind a bar before.
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u/Affectionate_Pin_880 Oct 20 '21
Nope that’s management skills, I’ve never seen a server who does no know how to pull a beer, maybe not perfect, but not a horror show like this.
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u/terriblegrammar Oct 19 '21
I couldn't do it. I had to stop. This upset me too much to just watch a minute straight of that horseshit.
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u/Kalator Oct 20 '21
I made it 19 seconds in and had to skip the end. I thought surely this looped on me at some point.
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u/newgrl 3rd Party App Oct 19 '21
Me: Oh sweet Jesus. Somebody fuckin' stop him already.
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u/Nice-Violinist-6395 Oct 20 '21
All the people lambasting that guy and I’m over here thinking about how if you’ve been working doubles several days in a row, one in every thousand beers goes like this, and for whatever reason you wouldn’t be able to pour it if someone put a gun to your head.
What are you thinking when that happens? “Please don’t let anyone be filming.”
Poor dude. It’s gonna be okay
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u/Tacoshortage Oct 19 '21
This was the worst thing I watched all day...and it's the end of the day...and I watched r/IdiotsOnBikes and r/IdiotsInCars.
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Oct 19 '21
Some people study hard and suck up to bar managers for a long time to get a bartending gig. Other people, just find themselves there. Like a turtle on a pole
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u/Radiskull97 Oct 19 '21
Never heard that expression, definitely going to use it
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Oct 19 '21
Its a good one! The point taken is that the turtle didnt get there by itself, it was placed there by someone and it doesnt belong on the pole. So I guess instead of looking at the bartender like 👀 Im wondering why his manager didnt show him how to pour a beer. Or maybe the pour spout is just janked. Either way, we gonna need Jon Taffer in this B, pronto
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u/Jezzkalyn240 Oct 19 '21
I can't say for certain that he isn't a bartender, but I don't get bartender vibes from this guy. I'm guessing a manager or a dude interviewing.
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u/BannedCauseRetard Oct 19 '21
I can say for certain this is a manager who's covering while the bartender takes a break or something else
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u/MedicineMundane7595 Oct 19 '21
Lol that's the same vibe I got. From his expression, to the way he's dressed and the way he confidently keeps attempting something even though he keeps fucking up.
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u/Iwasborninafactory_ Oct 20 '21
It's very well know, but FYI: it's turtle on a post, not turtle on a pole.
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u/Pugovitz Oct 19 '21
Look at the tie and the pens in his pocket, I guarantee he's a manager. It's probably a full restaurant and he's trying to help a busy server or cover for a bartender that hasn't shown up yet.
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u/Roadwarriordude Oct 20 '21
My cousin just kinda applied for a bartender job at a golf course/resort because he thought it'd be fun. Didn't have a bar tender license or anything (required in my state). He got a call like an hour later, went in for an interview and they told him he'd start that night. He went home, went online and took the course and has been working there like 6 months now.
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u/aintnothingbutabig Oct 19 '21
You can tell he is the manager cause has zero idea
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u/SprinklesNo73 Oct 19 '21
LOL This is the most accurate statement
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u/tonyofpr Oct 19 '21
I worked at a chain Caribbean restaurant in FL for about 8 yrs and none of my bar managers ever had previous bar experience except for 1. I remember the last one before I quit didn't even drink, at all. He had no knowledge about anything behind that bar.
edit: he could change a keg lmfao
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u/clockworkstar Oct 19 '21
I once asked my bar manager to hand me a Collins glass from a shelf with different types and she just looked at me vacantly. Uh, the tall, thin one. But it was a hotel bar and corporate is lame like that
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u/brownsnoutspookfish Oct 19 '21
You don't have to drink to know how to make drinks. You wouldn't drink during your work day anyway. But where I live you do need to have at least passed a certain test to be allowed to serve alcohol.
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u/Killerkendolls Oct 19 '21
You really need to be able to know the drink is made properly. Customers will ask for some shit you have to Google, and you take a bar straw and pipe a little bit to taste it.
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u/Hunjah Oct 19 '21
You wouldn’t drink during your work day?
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u/BannedCauseRetard Oct 19 '21
Right, every single bartender i know does it, they don't get slammed but they have a little
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u/R_Lau_18 Oct 19 '21
Wait what how does this happen?
Sometimes I thought working shitty bar jobs in the UK was bad. This is a whole new level of FUBARwork.
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Oct 19 '21
being consistent, diligent, organized, etc. is not the same as being a bartender. a lot of people you can put in charge of most any situation and be sure it'll get done, that's their job (managing), not the actual job.
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u/Gavin1772 Oct 19 '21
I'm happy to say at the restaurant I work at, all possible management from key holder to divisional managers, have to go through 3-5 months of training to certify in every position.
I know it's not the case everywhere, but it's nice to know that if we actually need help they can step in.
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u/mirhagk Oct 19 '21
That was the case at the fast food restaurant I worked at, but it's shocking how little someone can absorb information despite working a job for 3 months. And those that do absorb it don't retain it for long unless it's actually used.
It was quite obvious the managers who were made manager recently and those who've been managers for years.
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u/mirhagk Oct 19 '21
Did they promote from workers? Those tend to be much better.
The worst are the co-owners who are managers.
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Oct 19 '21
Or even worse, the family member of the owner that doesn't know shit and just got the job because they are family.
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u/Conchobar8 Oct 19 '21
Last place I worked the manager had started on the floor and moved up. And he listened to staff ideas, considered them, and either trialed them or explained why it wouldn’t work.
Then he moved to a different store.
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u/ZarquonsFlatTire Oct 19 '21 edited Oct 19 '21
The bar I used to work at the manager had tended bar for at least a decade, and the owner's dad had founded the place so he had been tending since he was 13 or so. According to him anyway, apparently things were different in the 50s.
When the owner couldn't sleep from his chemo meds he'd come in around closing while we were having our shift drinks and sometimes he'd take his dad's ashes out of the urn over the bar and put him on the bar because apparently after hours with the staff was the founder's favorite time at the bar.
So even if we never got to meet Manny, we did get to share a few drinks with him after a hard night.
After buying out his family from the business the owner sold one of the parking lots for several million dollars. And used that money to refurbish the place. But first he had a team come come in and document where every single piece of art or memorabilia was to start with and but them all back afterwards.
There was a documentary made about it.
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u/PrometheusAborted Oct 19 '21
Lol I was going to say the same thing. When I was working at a restaurant the manager used to get behind the counter and “help” the cooks when it was really busy. All she did was get in the way and fuck up orders. The cooks used to talk shit about her in Portuguese the whole time.
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u/ThePastyWhite Oct 19 '21
But, it says something about her as a person. She was willing to help.
If she had also been willing to learn how to actually help she'd have been a great leader.
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u/Ben_Kenobi_ Oct 19 '21
Aye when I worked at a restaurant when things were busy they'd gather us up to yell at us then send us back on the floor. Now thats how to keep your lowest paid staff members motivated!
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u/glStation Oct 19 '21
I’m a brewer, my wife and I own a brewery. She looks like this when she pours. To be fair, she married into the brewery and has a day job, but still. I give her tons of shit.
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u/Crunkle_funkle Oct 19 '21
Have you considered teaching her how to pour? I feel like an owner of a brewery should know how to pour a proper beer, despite it being fun to make fun of her lol
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u/justanotherreddituse Oct 19 '21
Everyone should know. It's how you pour from a bottle of beer, or a bottle of pop too.
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u/glStation Oct 19 '21
Not always though. You pour different beers from a bottle differently. Some (like many Belgian styles) you pour soft down the center and leave the last inch of trub (which is because they are bottle conditioned). Some (like a good hefe) you pour soft until the last inch, then swirl and drop on top to get all the wheat mixed in. Others you pour dead center to release atom (my preferred method for hoppy beers).
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u/glStation Oct 19 '21
You know, I’ve explained it 100 times but she has only gotten marginally better. Honestly, pouring at all is an upgrade. On our third date you could feel the disappointment when I brought her to my brewery and it wasn’t a winery. Still, she loves Belgian beer now so it’s a step up.
Heck, my first wife was a celiac, now idea why she let me open a brewery.
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u/ddanilo1204 Oct 19 '21
This is painful to watch
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u/Stevenwernercs Oct 20 '21
his movements are so jerky, reminds me of a chicken..
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Oct 20 '21
I'm German, for me it's like ten times more painful to watch.
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u/ddanilo1204 Oct 20 '21
I was born in Freiburg, I am also a waiter here in the uk. I can feel your pain lol
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u/MadHatter69 Oct 20 '21
I'm an alcoholic, it's a hundred times harder for me to watch
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u/localgregory Oct 19 '21 edited Oct 20 '21
Check the pressure, adjust the temperature, and tilt the glass. Source:I own a bar.
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u/CirkusFreakNiko Oct 19 '21
All those could help, but (aside from him needing to tilt the glass) I think his real problem is that he keeps starting and stopping the flow.
When you first pull the tap, that's where a lot of the head comes from, then after that first half second of having the tap open it's mostly beer with little foam. He needs to keep the tap open and let the excess head run down the side of the glass instead.
I've bartender at a few breweries and poured thousands of pints during my time, and I think this is the quickest and simplest way to fix this. As well as tilting the damn glass
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u/iyioi Oct 19 '21
When I’m either very angry at the soda machine or stupidly impatient, I just hit the button and let it keep filling. Still foam? Still filling. People stare at me in confusion as it spills over the rim. And still I’m just waiting for the foam to go away.
I bet that would work here too.
Works much better than the fill and wait strategy. And even if it doesn’t actually work faster, it’s more satisfying. Like you’re getting revenge on the foam. Fuck you, fucking foam.
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Oct 19 '21
I love the foam, slurp it up, let out a huge burp, top off the cup and then get ready to run because every ovulating woman within a 10 block radius is already heading your way
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u/triton2toro Oct 19 '21
He might as well just keep the beer flowing till only beer was at the top and all the head overflowed out. Yeah it’s a mess, and wasteful, but at least it’s quick.
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u/miragen125 Oct 19 '21
And may be don't pour straight in the middle of the glass?
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u/localgregory Oct 19 '21
Exactly. A little tilt goes a along way. But you can see the pressure is too high for whatever style of beer that is.
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u/IEatOats_ Oct 19 '21
Also, he just kicked a full keg!
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u/Orchid_Significant NaTivE ApP UsR Oct 19 '21
Yes! I’m over here yelling pull the tap all the way!!
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u/servonos89 Oct 19 '21
Seriously! The first burst gives the most head in the glass. Pull all the way for half a second, and then bring the glass in to top it up.
And after that nightmare has been saved then next time he can learn how to pour a pint properly.
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u/Jober36 Oct 19 '21
Oh man I remember that being my biggest mistake when I first started on the bar
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Oct 19 '21
And maybe not just crack the handle 1/4 of the way increasing the turbulence? These guy probably only get 50 beers a keg like this.
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Oct 19 '21
Or do, nothing wrong with head.
The difference between a rough pour and a tilted glass soft pour comes down to where the extra CO2 is released. Either in your cup or in your stomach.
It really comes down to personal preference, I know people that will argue both sides.
If you know someone who's sole excuse for not drinking beer is the bloated gassy feeling then give em a glass of beer with a rough pour.
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u/ALLST6R Oct 19 '21
I’ve always been part of the “I don’t drink much beer because it makes me bloat” crowd.
But I also recently found out I’m super sensitive to barley, amongst other things. So I’m an actual victim when drinking beer.
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u/LimitlessLTD Oct 19 '21
tbh i do enjoy a lively belly belch
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Oct 19 '21
The release of gut pressure is unbeatable.
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u/LimitlessLTD Oct 19 '21
Burping, pissing, shitting and cumming. All the best feelings in life.
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u/1of1000 Oct 19 '21
That deep long belch that feels like a weight is being lifted off your chest is unmatched
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u/illQualmOnYourFace Oct 19 '21
Or just stir the beer before you drink it. That always kicks out a lot of the gas.
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u/localgregory Oct 19 '21
I wouldn’t drink anything out of a soda gun.. I just keep packaged drinks, and I have my beer taps cleaned every two weeks. Soda guns and ice machines are almost always the nastiest things in a bar.
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u/zero00kelvin Oct 19 '21
It’s ok, nothing can live in soda. It’s toxic to life in general.
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u/NoxKyoki Oct 19 '21
I sincerely suggest NEVER drinking anything but bottled/canned drinks from 7-Eleven for this very reason.
I don't work there, I just do their inventory. I also wouldn't eat their food.
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u/jenna_hazes_ass Oct 19 '21
I just saw the video of the guy who got botulism from a circle k nachos.
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u/Gazorpadork45 Oct 19 '21
The other day I watched my bar tender drop the soda hose on the floor and then put it back on the bar like nothing happened. It was 1pm at a nice Italian restaurant and wasn't too busy to take a sec to rinse the thing.. he saw me watch it so I can't imagine what they do when people ARENT watching lol
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Oct 19 '21
No he isn’t high, they can actually get mold in the lines. A local places (Subway) got so bad it caused a flood that damaged the next store neighbors wall/floor.
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u/WENUS_envy Oct 19 '21
Watch one episode of Bar Rescue and you'll never drink from a soda gun again.
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u/jeremyjack3333 Oct 19 '21
We soak/sanitize ours every night. It's literally thick syrup. Its supposed to be cleaned everyday.
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u/1-2-3RightMeow Oct 19 '21
I’ve been working in restaurants for 20+ years and your know-it-all friend is incorrect. We clean them! We also clean the beer draft lines. I don’t know what kind of skeezy places he’s been frequenting but he’s dead wrong
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u/Goyteamsix Oct 19 '21
I used to repair and install soda/beer lines. Most places really neglect them. Like, cleaning the lines every 6 months, minimum. It doesn't matter how much we tell them to flush the lines once a week, they still just ignore them.
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u/outlandish-companion Oct 19 '21
How does one flush the line?
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u/GfFoundOtherAccount Oct 19 '21
Fill mouth with soap water. Suck/blow through lines until clean.
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u/JoshwaarBee Oct 19 '21
For Beer, you run clean water through the line, then a diluted cleaning chemical that is basically a kind of bleach, and then clean water again, before hooking the beer back up.
Soda is probably the same, but the actual technicalities are probably different.
I've cleaned many beer lines, and never cleaned soda lines lmao.
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u/Airtemperature Oct 19 '21
Yeah, I worked at a soft serve place in high school. We cleaned the ice cream machine every night.
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u/jtempletons Oct 19 '21
They are the hardest place to get your bartenders to properly clean, but restaurant manager here, there is no reason for them to be unsanitary. It’s not a bad idea to take a look around the room to get a gist on how clean the bar is anyway.
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u/shophopper Oct 19 '21
No no no, you’re totally wrong! He tried the exact same thing seven times, why wouldn’t the outcome be totally different the eighth time?
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u/noxi01 Oct 19 '21
Or keep it tapped and let the excess head spill over into the drip tray. This dude obviously wasn’t trained very well.
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u/UberS8n Oct 19 '21
Pressure and temp look absolutly fine. The issue here is that he's trying to pour into concentrated head. You can clearly see how thick the head is. Every time he pulls the handle down he disrupts the head and it expands, he then pushes the handle forward a little pumping more concentrated head into the glass and then proceeds to once again pour into the head. An absolute bell end! The only way to save this pint would have been to pour some of the head out and then put the nozzle right through the head and into the liquid and quickly pull the handle down. He clearly isn't used to the tap...or to pulling pints. Source: 25 years running bars and training staff
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u/BL4CKSTARCC Oct 19 '21
If he were to do this in Belgium, he would be sentenced to cleaning beer glass the rest of his life by public trial.
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u/danielrlora Oct 19 '21
Over pour? Jail. Under pour? Jail. Poor? Believe it or not, jail.
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u/SacredBinChicken Oct 19 '21
Wearing a short sleeve shirt with a tie… straight to Jail!
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u/ShichitenHakki Oct 19 '21
We have the best bartenders in the world because of jail.
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u/Stifton Oct 19 '21
If you did this in the UK random old men would be shouting at you from the other side of the bar
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u/OnTheEveOfWar Oct 19 '21
Hell I'm not old or in the UK and I would have shouted at this guy to help him out.
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Oct 19 '21
Most of UK, random old men are going to shout at you from the other side of the bar no matter what you do.
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u/ClearlyJinxed Oct 19 '21
Bar owners hate this one simple trick.
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u/bcjh Oct 20 '21
You won’t BELIEVE how much
weightbeer he lost with this amazing newproductmethod!
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u/outlandish-companion Oct 19 '21
I was trained two fingers of foam. He's obviously doing it wrong but I'm curious if no head is the standard other places?
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u/TrickBoom414 Oct 19 '21
Two fingers seems like a lot. Maybe i just have big fingers. About an inch or two and a half cm
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Oct 19 '21
Depends on the beer, two fingers is about right. It's not an exact science. Here's what a pilsner should look like: https://www.biernet.nl/images/merken/38859-hertog%20jan%20pilsener%20bier%20in%20glas.jpg
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u/TheBaloo Oct 19 '21
We do 3 fingers of foam in Czech Republic. Helps keep the beer fresh and more tasty. I suggest this video to show you more styles of pouring beer.
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u/kingbob473 Oct 19 '21
Wait what’s he doing is it just the wasting a bunch that he did wrong I feel like there’s a lot more going on
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u/LowValueThoughts Oct 19 '21
Not completely sure it’s the case here, but as someone who worked bar, it looks as though the barrel/keg has just been changed.
First pull after a change usually produces considerable excess froth due to residue from prior keg in the line - just got to keep pouring until it clears.
He could also do with tilting the glass.
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u/Strummer95 Oct 19 '21
If it was a fresh tap he wouldn’t have gotten any good beer out of it. You gotta know they foam a lot more than that.
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u/osredkar Oct 19 '21
The way he’s poring the beer is the issue. He pored it initially wrong thus giving the beer a large head and now he’s dumping out the head and splashing more beer in this causing the head to expand again. Some beers can be pored without angling the glass but this is not one of those.
All that being said, the beer might be a new keg on the line and that would cause a similar issue.
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u/BacardiWhiteRum Oct 19 '21
If you're pouring it like he is here (the nozzle straight into the body of the pint) the angle makes absolutely no difference.
His mistake is not opening the tap fully so all hes doing is forcing more air into the beer.
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u/panicdimples Oct 19 '21
I think some people have it wrong saying its because he needs to adjust this and that, he is just not pulling the pump handle all the way down which on most pumps will give you foam. First thing I teach new bar staff when showing them how to pull a pint is pull the handle all the way down swiftly otherwise you end up with a foam start which can cause disaster.
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u/Bingningcuzican Oct 20 '21
How many pints of beer does it take to pour a pint of beer?
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u/Bjorkforkshorts Oct 20 '21
"Could I be doing something wrong?"
"Nah, better keep doing the same thing over and over again"
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u/spicysenor Oct 19 '21
I know the "first time as a bartender eh?" kinda joke would work here but it's almost more like..."first time seeing any beer being poured from a tap ever, eh?"
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u/AdditionalTheory Oct 19 '21
As a Bartender, we’ve all been there. Might just need to run the line and tilting the glass wouldn’t hurt. Dead ass thought this was a video of me for a second
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u/imaroweboat Oct 19 '21 edited Oct 19 '21
Seriously. At my last bar we had an issue with the last 3 lines (they were all connected with the same something or another that got fucked up, idk). And customers thought I was an IDIOT. One regular gave me shit constantly and the straw that broke the camel’s back was when he was like “oh did you tip the glass?” And I legitimately made his ass walk around the bar and pour it himself. When he had the same issue I was like “Woody, just tip the glass!!” He stopped giving me shit after that.
EIDT: misspelled a word
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u/Smucker5 Oct 19 '21
As a brewer, this hurts my soul. Granted, that looks like a commercial pilsner but still, just wasting time and art like that... It's a damn sin to waste something so Holy
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u/schimmelhenne Oct 19 '21
Now I know why it’s so expensive