Should Guinness Have a Head?

Pour the Guinness Draught into a glass tilted at 45 degrees, until it is three-quarters full. Allow the surge to settle before filling the glass completely to the top. Your perfect pint, complete with its creamy white head, just domed proud of the glass rim, is then ready to drink.

How much head should a Guinness have?

because if we poured it in one fell swoop, the head would be too big.” Per Fergal Murray, Guinness master brewer and global ambassador, the head size on your Guinness should be between 18-20mm, which is somewhere between 11/16"-12.5/16". Another reason is, of course, the presentation of the beer.

Is Guinness supposed to have a head?

If you're planning to hoist a pint of Irish dry stout for St. Patrick's Day, the folks at Guinness have a polite request: Don't slurp the foamy head off their beer. It's essentially a nitrogen cap, they say, that's protecting the flavors underneath from being oxidized.