Anyone really use special glasses?

[Baron von BeeGee]

Incidentally, popped into World Market last night and wound up buying a Franziskaner and a hefe glass...it fit perfectly!

 

[TEND]

Formerly working a bar, I acquired quite a few specialty glasses. I've got some Guiness and Kilkenny pints, lots of mugs, some Alexander Keith's Pilsner glasses. Lots others, but those are my favorites, having the specific glass just sort of adds to the experience.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I don't use specialty glasses either, even though I have at least one for almost every style. I totally agree that a plain old pint glass (NOT PRE-FROZEN) is the way to go with just about any beer.

Funny you mention that about the parties--that's exactly how I do it. Except my "Kiss me I'm sh!tfaced" glass mysteriously gets taken before I can grab it... t don't make bars like those little corner taps anymore, do they?

I have a pint glass that says: DRINK, PEE, REPEAT.

I have a pretty large beer glass collection (over 200 ) of all styles of beer that I use according to what I am drinking.

I also have 50+ ceramic beer mugs (from Germany) that I really don't care if they get broken or not. These are what I give others to use. No pressure if they get broken. The people who do break them really feel bad about it too. I just get them another one. I must have had 4-6 break last year.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I also have 50+ ceramic beer mugs (from Germany) that I really don't care if they get broken or not. These are what I give others to use. No pressure if they get broken. The people who do break them really feel bad about it too. I just get them another one. I must have had 4-6 break last year.

Man! You running a pub in your rec room??

 

[homebrewer_99]

No. I really don't have a rec room per se.

They're just what I collected from living in Germany for 9 years.

Some of them (about 90-110) are on shelves in my brew supplies room, 2 cabinets full and some still in boxes.

I had about 20 Hefe Weizen glasses break throughout the years. I have HW glasses ranging in size from 0,3 liter to 2 liters (lead crystal)! Then there's the seasonal (like Christmas/winter ones, etc), 1/5 liter, 1 liter, glass and ceramic, handled, pewter tops, etc.

I used to buy boxes of HW glasses for 5 Euros (about $6 for the box 6) !

I also have a collection of 40-60 pewter shot "glasses" with decorative motifs.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I used to buy boxes of HW glasses for 5 Euros (about $6 for the box 6) !

Sweet! You have more specialty beer glasses than most bars.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Thanks. Most are just dust collectors on display. I wash them out occasionally. What a job...

When I was in TX in Dec I gave Mindflux one of my Bavarian Weizen glasses.

TEND: Are those Kilkenny glasses from Coors Irish Red of from Kilkenny, Ireland?

I spent 4 days in Kilkenny a couple of years ago. My grandmother was born there and I was trying to find relatives. I was unsuccessful, but I did get some pub time in every city we visited! We were there for 8 days and I drove almost 1100 miiles.

 

[Passload]

Here is a style guide: Style guide (PDF)

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Here is a style guide: Style guide (PDF)

Hey, it doesn't list the imperial pint thick faceted glass with the handle. Yet its picture is on the top header.

 

[cgravier]

If you are into special glasses & you ever get to S.F., go to the Toronado. The bartenders there are nuts about using the right one.[/QUOTE]

what an awesome bar! i used to live half a block from there. its the first place i ever had mead, and gravity pumped, english cask conditioned ale. (from an actual cask, warm, flat, and everything, which i dont recomend BTW)

as far as glasses i like the "english" pub style, or the american pint glass for ales.
i have a nice globe glass i drink chimay out of also.

i always cringe when i go to my brother's house and i see him drinking the homebrew i give him straight from the bottle. thats how he drinks it though, yeast and all.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

That guide didn't even have lager mugs. There must be another page or two.

 

[uglygoat]

the tulip pint glasses are my favorite. i have two like the above, and then an assortment of regular pint glasses, as well as some mugs that i'll drink out of. i have the large 22 oz pilsner glasses, but don't like them much.


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[homebrewer_99]

the tulip pint glasses are my favorite. i have two like the above, and then an assortment of regular pint glasses, as well as some mugs that i'll drink out of. i have the large 22 oz pilsner glasses, but don't like them much.

I have some of those too. I purchased them in Dublin when I was there. That gives them more sentimental value.

 

[homebrewer_99]

i always cringe when i go to my brother's house and i see him drinking the homebrew i give him straight from the bottle. thats how he drinks it though, yeast and all.

So much for amateur drinkers

 

[DeRoux's Broux]

hb 99, EP and i got 2 good weissen glasses 2 nite. schneider weisse and the dunkel.....can't remeber the name.......good though....

 

[homebrewer_99]

hb 99, EP and i got 2 good weissen glasses 2 nite. schneider weisse and the dunkel.....can't remeber the name.......good though....

Can't remember YOUR name, the name of the Schneider Weizen, or the dunkel? (I was joking on the Schneider)

 

[DeRoux's Broux]

Can't remember YOUR name, the name of the Schneider Weizen, or the dunkel? (I was joking on the Schneider)

my name and the dunkel!
it was Schneider's dunkel, Aventinus. wowzers is that puppy strong! 8% ABV. it said it was a weisse doppelbock on the bottle....

 

[homebrewer_99]

Yeah, I remember having some of them.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I saw them the other night at the local 'fancy grocery store'...might have to swing by and grab one (or two).

 

[homebrewer_99]

If you like both styles you'll enjoy it.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I just like beer Actually, I used to really like Weihenstephan Dunkel, but I've gotten away from it for some reason. I've been drinking lots of hefe's for 'research' lately as I have one in primary (which is still bubbling along after 11 days).

 

[DeRoux's Broux]

get some BeeGee. my favorite dunkelweizen so far. funny thing, it was almost the same SRM as the Schneider Weisse. pretty dark for a hefeweizen.

i'm brewing my dunkel tomorrow.

 

[barleypopmaker]

I read an article somewhere where a beer tasting expert suggested the best all around glass for drinking beer is a Red Wine glass. The shape and size are perfect. And something about the shape helps funnel aromas to your nose, and is wide enough to allow the aromatics out. I bought some stemless red wine glasses and they have become my favorite beer glasses. Mine look like these.