What kind of beer glass do you prefer?

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Most lighter beers (pilsners, lagers, even porters) I drink from the bottle. Heavier beers (usually a Russian stout), or any beer worth appreciation (Westmalle, rauschbiers) I drink from a fluted (curved taper) version of a pilsner. The heavier beers often taste unpleasant from the bottle - heavier in an unpleasant sense, bitter, strong-flavored. It takes an open glass to present and savor them correctly.

Then there’s pizza beer, which is my very own pitcher of something like Dirty Penny Ale and a frozen mug.

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I prefer Beer Goggles.

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Conical

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Full.

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For most craft beers, I use stemware very similar to the Stella glass but simpler. Great for hoppy / fragrant beers.

For simpler ales, I have conical pints. And classic Guinness glasses for stouts.

On a related note, I will use this forum to air my disapproval of the new Guinness glasses. Messing with perfection. Too complicated feeling and harder to hold.

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I usually drink beer from either a pint glass, or a glass mug with a handle. For those special IPA occasions when I’d like to get my nose in there, I have 2 Beer Snob Specialty Glasses.
http://www.sierranevada.com/blog/hops/our-glass-collaboration-serves-ipa-anew

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This is my weapon of choice that I bought from the brewery in Salzburg. Chilled in the freezer it has a bit of heft to it to keep the temp in the right ball-park.

I’m not sniffy about accuracy though, my preference would be a Stiegl pils (even though it isn’t a classic pilsner galss) but as I can’t get it in the uk any quality beer is welcome, no sensible beverage refused.

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I voted Pilsner cuz I love pils, but really any glass thats full is fine. Bitte!

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I understand that certain styles of beer are ‘best’ with certain shapes of glass; I know why this is so, and I don’t argue that it’s not true. If I had the disposable income, I’d buy myself a complete set of glasses such that I would have the ‘proper’ glass available for whatever beer I have on hand. But I don’t, so we have a bunch of basic pint glasses. They work just fine, and when it comes down to it, I just really don’t care that much what shape my glass is, as long as there’s beer in it.

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I was drinking a barely wine last night and used a little snifter I have from Voodoo Brewery. Yumm!

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For drinking, I really don’t care.

I voted for Pilsner as an aesthetic choice. I’ve always liked the look of this, and a well-made one has a great hand-feel to it.

I used to go to a bar that had one of those “you buy the mug and they keep your mug at the bar for you” deals, and they used dimple glasses for this, and that was sort of okay. I get the concept of the advantage of the handle, but never really felt like it made a difference in reality.

The tulip is the one I like the least, I always find them easier to almost tip accidentally.

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I usually drink from the bottle so that’s how I voted.

I also enjoy a large frosty mug.

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That is what I would call a Pilsner glass. Apparently there is some vagueness and overlap in the naming system.

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I usually wait until the bartender’s not looking, then hold my mouth under the open tap.

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Yes, it always fun to watch the newbs drink full pace toe up on that one. I lived in Germany for a while as a kid and it was a traditional initiation.

I am most used to the nonic but like using the pilsner when in polite company. :stuck_out_tongue:

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eta that those stemmed Stella glasses are just inviting an Unfall. They seem like prissy cocktail or wine glasses to me, not proper beer drinking vessels. :rolleyes:

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I pour half the bottle at a time into a 200 ml kölsch glass. Tall, narrow, thin glass like a wine glass.

A pilsner glass will do on most occasions, though.

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Which one has beer in it?

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The pilsner glasses I’m familiar with tend not to be curvy and are a bit shorter. But the one you linked to does look like a weizen glass.

ETA: This shows a weizen and pilsner glass next to each other.

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I prefer one of these. :slight_smile: