Traditional beer glassware

Yeah, but were they lined with pitch?

I've got a wooden Pabst Blue Ribbon mug (50¢ flea market find) kickin' around in the basement somewhere - filled with pencils or bottle openers or tie-wraps. But it has a brown PVC insert/liner...

 

I will have to track it down again but I remember reading a travel account by an Italian travelling to Sweden in the 1600s I believe who mentioned that the wooden drinking vessels were lined with a resin, I can't recall any specifics beyond that however but that was the gist of it.

 

I found a reference to the paragraph in question, the account is from 1674 and reads (my translation of a Swedish translation of the Italian original): "With this they drink beer, which is called ula, in wooden stånkor, internally coated with resin." The beer drunk was according to the Italian "black, thick and tastes smoked".

The Swedish word used is "harts", which is the term used for pitch in Swedish, which is a form of resin in English. So one can say that the wooden tankards were lined with pitch.

 

Thanks for the article.

I love nonic pints.

 

Most of what I drink is well served in a tulip. It is, IMHO, one the most versatile styles of glassware.

 

Yeah I'd think so too and one can probably find more or less identical designs across northern Europe I would imagine. It's the type of vessel that just about anyone can make with very limited resources and tools.

Yeah I too enjoy "smoke[d] beers" and it sounds like an interesting type of beer. Top fermented, using smoked malt and most likely low attenuated since that was one of the other hallmarks of top fermented "Swedish beer" by the late 1800s.

 

I don't think you can have a complete discussion about 'traditional' glassware without including the iconic Duvel glass. Introduced in the late 1960's, it stands to be the first tulip-shaped tasting glass:

Admittedly, I have decanted Duvel into a different glass, but have always felt guilty. The experience of a perfect pour into a signature glass just enhances the experience for me (says self-proclaimed beer and proper glassware geek).

 

Boot in German means Boat. German for Boot is (der) Stiefel.

I don't know where in Germany you visited, but I saw der Stiefel all over the south. They're mostly novelty vessels and often used to prank on the amateur drinker. If you don't use them properly, you end up with beer all down your shirt.

 

My favorites are my Young's Imperial pint glass (nonic), a Young's big ol' dimpled mug that I love, a La Chouffe snifter/chalice with the gnome, and a beautiful and sexy Adnams pint glass that is perfect. I also really like the little Hitachino glasses that work for every beverage for everyone. Beer, V-8, OJ, milk, whiskey, and sometimes water....

 

I think this a wonderful Idea to complement my thread! Glad to see so many BAs interested in Glassware.
For me personally I love the traditional Nonic British Pint Glass, for me it's one of the best in the world that have stood the test of time.

 

Stay away from yards of beer too.

 

I wasin pforzheim, not really a tourist destination. It was actually kind of hard to find steins even in the downtown area (though I did find a store with them) I don't remember seeing stiefels there though...

 

Thats a nice looking mug, 20-oz? I could use one of those.

 

What!?!

No mention of how the Vikings drank beer!?!



Skål!

 

I didn't want to stray too far from the realm of glassware I guess . But "drinking horns" have certainly played a part historically and remained in use, albeit less commonly, beyond the viking era as can be seen by the collection of drinking horns in the possession of the Swedish Nordiska museet (the Nordic museum).

 

Used to be a bar back in Pa thst many years ago served up the beers in a nice tall Pils glass. Most likely that bar had Black Label and Budweiser, maybe Schaefer to fill it. Probably cost .15 or .20 a glass. Back then people didn't steal beer glasses, so you had a nice glass to enjoy your beer. So it it, the shitty Shakers we all deserve. Hate them, I'd rather drink beer out of plastic cups.

 

Love those goblets, and they're expensive when I see one. I'm on the look out for a Schlitz or PBR glass under $10.

 

I've only been to Germany a few times, but I honestly don't remember seeing that glass, let alone being served a Pilsner in one.

Typically I've seen them served in something like this...(I tried to post the image, but I always have trouble trying to figure out how to post images using imgur on my iPad)

https://www.google.com/search?q=bit...AUIFCgE&biw=1024&bih=653#imgrc=iiPb-IoemkNAhM:

Either 16.9 or 33.8 oz.