{"id":396,"date":"2026-06-11T02:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/?p=396"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:04:41","slug":"quick-thoughts-on-settle-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Quick Thoughts On Settle Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With my latest keg of Guinness, I&#8217;ve been playing around with shorter settling times. This hasn&#8217;t been in the name of science or anything. More often than not it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m trying to get back to the tv to watch the Yankees disappoint me. I&#8217;ve done some testing before and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/?p=322\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"322\">I can&#8217;t <em>taste<\/em> the difference between a properly and improperly poured Guinness.<\/a> But lately, I&#8217;m definitely noticing a difference in viscosity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my observations, the longer I allow the Guinness to settle before the final top off, the more &#8220;well connected&#8221; the beer is. What do I mean by well connected? I mean that you can walk the glass from the tap to your seat without it spilling. It&#8217;s anecdotal, but I find that the quicker I pour the beer, the more it kind of sloshes around and is likely to spill. And the more time I allow it to settle the more it&#8217;s likely to stick to the inside of the glass. Even when the meniscus starts to look impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately, does this matter? Not really. Unless your destination is far away and you&#8217;re looking for a low \u0394Guinness\/distance. If you order a Guinness at a bar and it&#8217;s overflowing then your bartender was trying to give you as much beer as possible and\/or they were trying to get you your beer as fast as possible. Tip them well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my latest keg of Guinness, I&#8217;ve been playing around with shorter settling times. This hasn&#8217;t been in the name of science or anything. More&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/?p=396\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quick Thoughts On Settle Time<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougdoug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}