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[SchwanzBrewer]

I have been doing some research (not much yet) on beer styles and the proper glassware to use for drinking the beer and see some generalizations emerging. I would like to get the beer forums take on these and try to come up with a "best glass for this beer" match up based on our collective experience.Here are some of the generalizations...APA, IPA, English Brown Ales, Stout Porter - the pub glassGerman PilsnerHigh Gravity BeersAltbier, Kolsch

[SchwanzBrewer]

Hefewiezen, wheat beers

[SchwanzBrewer]

Belgians

[SchwanzBrewer]

Feel free to debunk these and add to it. If you know a specific beer really well and care to add it, I will maintain a list and update it along the way.Beer forum go!Cheers,Rich

[Mya]

[Big Nake]

I love a 16-oz becher for almost all of my styles. Pale Ale, Amber, Red Ale or Lager, Oktoberfest, Pilsner, Vienna, etc. I use these glasses a lot. Cheers.

Edited by KenLenard, 06 September 2012 - 02:01 PM.

[SchwanzBrewer]

What sets it apart from other style glasses?

[BlKtRe]

Belgians

I also use this style for Trappists

[Big Nake]

What sets it apart from other style glasses?

A becher? It's just a nice, multi-purpose style of glassware. Some would argue that your standard, straight-edged pint glass is multi-purpose too but I like this better. It comes in a 12-ounce, 16-ounce and 20-ounce size and possibly others. I have quite a few of these. I also like the bulged-rim English pub glass for bitters and ESBs (the glass you posted first) as well as 20-ounce tulip glasses. I like this for pilsners...Here's the tulip glass for English styles...Here's another multi-pupose glass I like for many different styles...Kolsch and Alt are not the same. Kolsch:Altbier:I also like this as a multi-purpose:Not sure of the style names on some of these glasses.

[djinkc]

snobB)

[armagh]

Kolsch and Alt are not the same. Kolsch:Altbier:Truth. A Kolsch glass is called a "rod" in German. An alt is from further up the Rhein, and I don't know what the Dusseldorfers call theirs.

[Big Nake]

I heard an Altbier glass is called a "stang" but not sure.

[Brauer]

What sets it apart from other style glasses?

I think a Becher's inward curved lip helps hold in the aroma better than a flared glass. It's the glass in which I've most often had Pilsner and Export served in Germany.The British "pub glass" is also known as a Nonic. It's design is optimized for stacking (no-nick, get it?), but I think the bulged glass can serve a similar function as an aroma reservoir. I think the broad opening works well for low gravity Bitter and Stout, that you tend to drink in generous mouthfuls.

[Big Nake]

I think a Becher's inward curved lip helps hold in the aroma better than a flared glass. It's the glass in which I've most often had Pilsner and Export served in Germany.The British "pub glass" is also known as a Nonic. It's design is optimized for stacking (no-nick, get it?), but I think the bulged glass can serve a similar function as an aroma reservoir. I think the broad opening works well for low gravity Bitter and Stout, that you tend to drink in generous mouthfuls.

I know that various glassware helps to make the beer drinking session better and that the shape of the glass can actually improve your perception of the beer. I find this very interesting all the way around. I once saw a diagram of the Sam Adams glass with the unique shape and saw all of the various functions that the glass served and it blew my mind. I'm not a glassware-nazi which is why I like to have glasses that serve multiple purposes. I do cringe a little if my wife taps a summer lager into an English pint glass but we can't get our undies in a bunch about everything, now can we?

[brewman]

I have a large collection of beer glasses, One of these days Ill try to get good pics of them all.Here are a few of them.

Edited by brewman, 06 September 2012 - 06:26 PM.

[zymot]

I think every beer drinker should have a couple of these among their collection of glasses.

[Big Nake]

That's the one! I have a couple of those too.

[Mynameisluka]

Belgians

I think every beer drinker should have a couple of these among their collection of glasses.

aren't these two essentially the same, minus the "laser etchings" on the bottom?

[HVB]

I think every beer drinker should have a couple of these among their collection of glasses.

I got my first 2 of these free for bieing in the AHA when they came out. Earlier this year I found them at a local clearance place for $1.50 each .. bought 6 more and then was given 2 from the beer manager at my store. I keep these over the keg-r-rator and find them to be a nice glass.

[Big Nake]

...and then was given 2 from the beer manager at my store.

That's cool. There is a place near me that has a shelf of glassware and when you spend over $20 or something, you can pick one of the glasses from the shelf free of charge. This is one way that beer drinkers start collecting WAY too many glasses. Also, for a time, if you ordered over $50 worth of supplies at Midwest, they would send you a free glass and I probably have 5 or 6 of them. They're a kind of high gravity, goblet type of thing with the word "ENJOY" etched into it.

Edited by KenLenard, 07 September 2012 - 05:43 AM.