Everything in it's right glass

Enii

Can't stand when pubs give cocktails in the wrong glasses. A cosmo served in any other glass than a martini glass is not a cosmo. If you don't have the glass, don't put the drink on the menu!

noby

If I'm out, and my pint comes with the correct logo on it, that's fine and all. But it's not crucial to the enjoyment of the pint.
I'd be more concerned about getting the correct glass for a wheat beer or the like.

At home I have a small but growing collection of glasses.
It does add to the occasion if, say, you drink your bitter from a dimpled mug, or your pilsener from a proper glass.

Until I get my hands on a set of goblets, I drink my Belgian beers (Chimay etc.) from a wine or brandy glass.

I haven't got a chance to get to Lidl yet this week, but they have Okto glasses in since Monday. I'm hoping to get a set of 500ml maB (sp), and a few 1 litre ones, for those special occasions!

amp

I feel odd drinking whiskey if it's not in a heavy tumbler. Obviously shot-glasses are the best for Tequila. Aside from this, if there's no practical advantage to a non standard glass then I don't care. I have drunken wine from a mug and it tasted the same.

kenmc

pickarooney wrote:

It depends on the drink for me. If it's Belgian, it has to be in the right glass. I have pretty much all the glasses corresponding to the Belgian beers on sale, so I might as well use them.
Oi loikes me Kwak glass, Oi does.

Aye, Kwak glasses are cool. I'm terrified of dropping it and smashing it when washing though....
I've got loads of hoegaarden and juliper glasses I bought in t'Drankurgels before coming home. And I "acquired" a couple of erdinger glasses one night from town. And pint-size Hoegaarden. And I got a free Delerium Tremens with a 4 pack in Barcelona. And I've got Duvel and Guinness and Becks, and 4 little .25 Heinken glasses. Not to mention 6 tiger beer steins.
I like collecting them. Can't wait till I go travelling to Asia next year!!!!

StupidLikeAFox

I always get tequila in the narrow slim jims for some reason. I'd actually prefer it to shot glasses (even though i am shottin it)

And also, guinness never tasted right from a girls glass.....

Sarky

I once tried Guinness in an Erdinger glass. It was quite nice, for canned Guinness.

Generally, I try to get the right glass for the drink. I'll certainly ask the bar staff for one. It does improve the taste. I find this particularly true for weissbiers in tall thin glasses.

And, well, Kwak just wouldn't be the same.

technobob

fav glasse have to be the newer hour glass heineken ones and my hoegaarden half pints, managed to get all the half pint hoegaarden glasses that came to work and the last batch of nice jameson slim jims.

have a vast vast collection of glasses from working.
nice half pint erdinger ones too.



still cant beat the old breo ones though.......


on the branded glass issue, it always pays off to use the proper glass, one of my workmates got €60 for pouring bulmers in a bulmers pint the other day.

ferdi

i cant believe people like this actually exist! most of the time i drink my beer/spirit+mixer out of a coffee plunger beaker. get over it folks!!!!

technobob

you wouldn't drink stella from a teacup would you?

ferdi

i just plain wouldnt drink stella

kenmc

ferdi wrote:

i just plain wouldnt drink stella

Thats the spirit! If only there were more people like this.....
When you look at all the other beautiful Belgian beers, it blows my mind why people are willing to settle for this horse-p|ss and think that they're being sophisticated by drinking "foreign" beers...