Pour a beer into a glass and something happens before you even take the first sip. A pale lager may build a crisp white cap. A wheat beer can rise beneath a thick, creamy crown. A stout may settle under a dense head that seems almost impossibly smooth. And sometimes the foam disappears almost as…

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