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A very important one that seems to have been missed is the ability to pull a pint correctly.

I worked in a UK pub once and was showed how to do properly by pouring into an almost horizontal glass and gently raising it until it's vertical, at which point the glass should be full with a nice head on it.

So many times I've been given a pint with about an inch of head on it. It also makes it a little more gassy when a bar person pours straight into a glass and it overflows until the head has disappeared.

Ian

an inch of head doesnt sound too bad too me. and the only place i ever saw someone pouring a pint straight into a glass was glasgow....some shocking barmen over there

Yeah, it's shocking how some bar people pour beer. Even the whole "overflow until there's a nice head" thing is ridiculous - think of how much beer you're wasting doing that! Multiply that out by every pint every night and you're looking at a serious financial black-hole (may be exaggerating slightly, but if I owned a bar there's no way people'd get away with pouring like that).

There are a couple of factors that influence how a beer is poured. Type of glass, beer temperature, gas pressure and how busy the staff are. A pint may look as being poured badly, but it doesn't mean you get a bad pint.

Of course there are some who just don't know what they're doing. Not all staff should be branded with the "idiot" iron.

I wouldn't mind doing a pub crawl with it. <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->