A ‘beer sommelier’ explains how pouring a beer the wrong way can give you a stomach ache

How do you pour a beer? Turns out this popular pouring method — that results in little to no foam — is completely wrong. And can actually cause stomach issues! Max Bakker, a Master Cicerone (think a sommelier for beer) and High-End Educator at Anheuser-Busch InBev shows the correct technique.  Feedburner

A sommelier picks his favorite 9 summer wines under $25

Flickr / Leonid Mamchenkov Summer isn’t just for rosé. To get an idea of which other bottles you’ll want for the table, boat, or beach, we asked Jörn Kleinhans, owner of the The Sommelier Company, for his current summer favorites. Keep scrolling for Kleinhans’ picks — all under $ 25. 1. Cremant from Limoux, Southern France Ferry […]

Sommelier: You can buy all the wine tools you need for $15

Courtesy of Mark Oldman Wine can get expensive. The bottles are just the start. Once you’ve procured some bottles, you’ll need a $ 200 “advanced lever” corkscrew to open them up, a $ 50 carafe to aerate them, and maybe even a $ 300 Coravin wine system to bypass the cork entirely. There are entire websites full of nifty […]

A sommelier explains how to ask your waiter for wine you can afford without looking unsophisticated

Courtesy of Mark Oldman Asking for a “good value” wine probably won’t get you a good price. That’s according to sommelier Mark Oldman, who writes in “How to Drink Like a Billionaire” that he himself used to try and dance around the issue of price when ordering wine in a restaurant, using phrases like “a […]