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The appearance of beer can be as important to the customer as its flavour, a beer that looks wrong will often be rejected without even being tasted There are three key features of a beer’s appearance — colour, clarity and foam. Achieving an attractive foam is the hardest of these to control consistently.
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Hegarty, P.K. (1989). Beer Foam. In: Wilson, A. (eds) Foams: Physics, Chemistry and Structure. Springer Series in Applied Biology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3807-5_12
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