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I know how important glassware is to specific styles of beer but I am ashamed to admit that the only glasses in my cabinet are pint glasses. What kind of glasses should every beer lover have in their cabinet or home bar?
 
I have regular pint glasses, a couple 20oz english pub glasses, and a couple pilsner glasses. I personally don't worry much about what type of glass I'm drinking from...
 
clean ones...LOL.... its not the glass but what you put in it.. I have some mugs,pint glasses. but its all the same,good beer is good beer,even served out of a plastic cup.
 
At least one beautiful curvey weiss glass is a requirement for any beer drinker. It just a simple sexy piece of glass that makes anything put into it look good.
 
JMSetzler said:
I personally don't worry much about what type of glass I'm drinking from...
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I have just about everything but a horn or a thistle.

And they all collect dust in that fancy glass cabinet the wife has for china because I inevitably always grab my $1.00 tulip shaped iced tea glasses I got from Dollar Tree.

Perfect shape, 16 Ounces, heavy stem, and $1.00 if it breaks.
 
My favorite glass is the Willi-Becher style glass. They are big enough to hold a full pint/0.5L with a head on it. They are light, present the beer well, and they taper near the top, concentrating aroma. I have a set of 4 from Gordon Beirsch, and a couple from Northern Brewer.

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this is my favorite glass in the world:
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I have pints that I'll drink from, but I like tulip glasses, I like goblets for certain beer (especially if I am sharing an expensive Belgian or sour bottle), and I like .5 liter glasses the most for drinking anything that doesn't go in the tulip glass. I don't like the tall fluted things.
 
One of the best pubs in Arizona (Papago Brewing) uses these for serving Belgian Ales. Mrs. Gnome sweet-talked one of the bartenders into selling her one and after some searching, I figured out that it is the Libbey Poco Grande. UPS just delivered a box of four of them from Bed Bath & Beyond. I swear every beer tastes better served in one of these.

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I love beer glasses and love the way the shape of a glass can affect the aroma/taste of a beer. At the end of the day, though, my favorite is a basic imperial pint glass.
 
I've got a some pilsners, one of those German cylindrical styled ones, some Leffe chalices, some stumpy conical Hoegaarden ones and a few stemmed tulips. The only difference I tend to notice is the aroma from the tulips (and to a smaller degree the goblets). Taste really doesn't seem to be effected.
 
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This pewter mug is my favorite drinking 'glass'. I don't like my beers ice cold and this mug makes life easy when it comes to bringing the beer to my desired temperature...
 
I mostly have logo pints; I've started a collection of buying one from every brewpub I go to on vacations (though I didn't get one from Cambridge Brewing Co when I was in Boston; gonna need to have my friend ship me one or something). I also have two 'perfect pints,' two Duvel glasses, a Chimay (doesn't it do nothing for the aromas? It's just there), a siedel from Cheers, a Grolsch I got from the library garage sale for a quarter, etc. My favorite glasses right now are the nonic Half Acre glass they let me keep when I visited them in Chicago (16 oz though :() and the .3L Southern Tier tulip I got for free with a four pack (of Sam Adams, interestingly).
 
EvilGnome6 said:
One of the best pubs in Arizona (Papago Brewing) uses these for serving Belgian Ales. Mrs. Gnome sweet-talked one of the bartenders into selling her one and after some searching, I figured out that it is the Libbey Poco Grande. UPS just delivered a box of four of them from Bed Bath & Beyond. I swear every beer tastes better served in one of these.

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Everyone should have a tulip glass just like that for beer.
 
GilaMinumBeer said:
The big glass is nice for novelty but, you find it rarely (if ever) gets used. Kinda like the yard glasses.
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Yes it is novelty but I actually use my yard glass. Sure the beer gets a little warm by the end but I tell you what, all you need is one beer! Lol
 

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