Anyone know this trick? If you pour a beer that has too much head, you wipe the sides of your nose to accrue some grease, you then swirl your greased fingers along the top of the beer head, and it magically dissipates rapidly. Anyone here know why?

Well that sounds fucking disgusting.

A good trick for keggers, indeed.

We always tried to figure out what it was about, also.

I think we tried it without the grease and it worked just as well, I think all it's really doing is popping and breaking all those little carbonated bubbles, causing a chain reaction for them to all start breaking down sooner than if you didn't touch it.

I know the deal though, a good trick for someone who pours shitty.

I know of this, and it works really well, but I have no idea why. You might try asking in LT.

yeah my dad was a bartender and he taught me that. works way better with sodas though.

Fuck that. Guide to giving the perfect [beer] head:

Step 1: tilt pint glass at a 45 degrees [aprox.].
step 2: poor beer into glass until half full. Try to aim for the centre of the glass edge.
step 3: when the beer reaches about half way, turn the glass so that it is vertical (the right way up smart arses). Continue to poor the beer slowly into the center of the glass until full, complete with a nice head measuring about 1.5 widths of a finger.

The head is actually quite important to beer, depending on the type of beer you're drinking of course.

Simple. Now fuck off with your sweaty, greasy headed beer.

I'd guess that the oils disrupt the surface tension, in the same method that keeps pasta water from foaming up when a bit of oil is added.

your fingers probably have enough oil on them already to not require you to stick your fingers up your nose and then into your beer...

There we go... this guy got it.