Using your fingers to dissipate the foam on top of the beer: gross or not gross?

As long as it’s your own beer, I wouldn’t care.
But keep your oily finger out of my beer.

Why would you want to? The foam is part of the experience. It aerosolizes the hop aromas.

I used to like the foam. Which I would lick with my tongue.. Possibly also gross. So I will bow out of the judgement serving.

I think it is fine. It sure beats leaning level with the glass and sucking it off noisily. Read in another context this could sound truly disgusting!

Yes, this is in social! I really don’t care what you do in your own glass. But now I really want to hear and see @LornaLove suck it off noisily.

On the rare occasions I get a taste for beer, I love chugging draught out of a big cold mug, starting with the foam!

I suck the foam off the top then drink the beer. I don’t think it’s good manners to scrape it off with your fingers unless you’re in a real dive and people flick the foam on the floor.

I’ve never felt the need to take the top off a beer. I like the froth.

See @Rarebear
The foam is part of the deal. Brewers of high quality beer go to alot of trouble to get the foam just right.
So I vote for gross.

@rosehips I missed your tongue thing. We could have our own erotic foam contest, but the guys would have to chip in too. We’re not sexist here.

@Adirondackwannabe I have no qualms about equal opportunity participation.

In England foamy beer is not considered attractive and a finger is sometimes used.

Just take a deep breath and blow it off.

I like a little layer of foam but have perfected the perfect tip of the glass to get the resultant perfect light layer of foam. If the head on my beer is too dense, wtf….finger it away if a spoon is not available.
Not gross, but then again, I’m a classy bohemian country girl, I pee in the woods too. haha

Now of one was peeing while also skimming their foam with a finger….well….lol

The foam makes the beer! It may not be gross, but it is disgusting. Like others have said, I go to a lot of trouble to get the carbonation just right so the beer has the perfect head of foam. It isn’t easy when you brew a lot of varieties that all have different head requirements.

@WestRiverrat LOL…different head requirements. Okay…I won’t run with that.
Er…should I say, I won’t suck up to that comment. haha
I live near several amazing microbreweries, oh my…a frothy Scotch Ale is sublime!

If they pour it so that foam forms, I would not be happy. Like @Coloma I tip the glass to keep it at a minimum.

There are things people do a bar that could qualify for gross making the beer foam deal seem boring. We eat with our fingers all the time whats the big deal?

Yeah, @janbb has it right, over here a frothy head is considered as short measure on your pint in pubs, stopped that shit years ago. Of course, drinking at home with bottles/cans is a different matter, no cause to use fingers though, pour correctly & you get minimal foam.

I don’t drink beer, but I do that when I pour soda into a cup of ice. I’d do it in public if the opportunity presented itself. Why would it be gross? It’s my finger in my drink.