Bottled Beer, Foams Over, What's It Called?

[Cordial_Jim]

There may not even be a word for this, but I have a foggy recollection that says yes.

You take a rather large sip from a newly opened bottle of beer and quickly return the bottle to a hard surface. Within seconds, a large amount of frothy, hopsy, foam spews up and out of the bottle and onto said hard surface.

There is a word for this, I just know it. What is it?

Relatedly, what causes this? It doesn’t happen all the time, no matter how quickly the bottle is lowered from the mouth and onto a hard surface. If I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with the amount of air released or injected into the bottle during intake, but I really don’t know.

Thanks

[Cluricaun]

@Cordial Jim

There is a word for this, I just know it. What is it?

Around these parts we call this “Awshithoneygetmeatowel”. The accent is on the “awshit” part.

[cardsfan1975]

I don’t know of one word for that, but the two words that come to my mind are “alcohol abuse”.

cf’75

[Squink]

@Cordial Jim

Bottled Beer, Foams Over, What’s It Called?

There may not even be a word for this, but I have a foggy recollection that says yes.

Wild Beer.
Carlsberg did a pile of research on the phenomena back in the 50’s; even going so far as to compose a periodic table of the effects of the chemical elements on beer foaming. That table doesn’t seem to be online, but there is a passing ref to the research:

In 1955 Carlsbergs engineers found the cause for the problems with so-called wild beer and at the same time a new and strong manager A.W. Nielsen was appointed.

The term is now used more widely than just refering foaming from newly opened bottles:

Wild beer is a beer that is all or mostly foam when it is drawn.