A Question On Glasses

Try these;

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https://beersay.wordpress.com/tag/beer-glasses/

Plenty of other sites to guide you. Myself, I don't worry about matching the glass to the beer style - I use goblets for everything. I primarily use a Snörkel goblet but have other brands of goblets which I match to the brewery when I have the right glass. Ironically, I've never had a Snörkel or any Jester King beers, as they don't distribute here.

 

The link given you by bbtkd gives you a nice visual guide to different styles of glasses. You can also look on this site under Beer 101 for a guide to glassware. On BA we can get pretty geeky about glassware. My own collection is way too big. And, like bbtkd I find myself gravitating to a favorite. I tend to use a glass styled for IPAs whenever I am drinking an IPA,a pale ale, or any hop forward beer. The Bud light glass looks like a shaker pint glass to me - a style you will see at many bars, While not really best for any particular style of beer they are sturdy, feel nice in the hand, and good for a commercial dishwasher.

 

As has been noted frequently, the names used for various shapes of beer glasses varies by region, manufacturer, brewer, etc.

I'd call the Bud Light a "shell" (that's what AB called it in the 1980s) although with a bit more taper than the traditional shell and the CBC a "goblet" (Libbey, the major US glass mfg., calls many differently-shaped stemmed glass designs by that term, as did AB in the above link).

The Pabst Blue Ribbon and Carling Black Label, while obviously legally licensed, are the sort of thin "novelty" glasses sold in packs in discount stores and 5¢ and Dimes, etc, rather than brewery promotional items or for commercial use in bars. Here's an ad for such glassware with a similar set in the upper right, circa mid-1970s.

(The Black Label glass suggests that set might have originated a bit earlier, likely the 1960s when Carling was still a large national US brewery).

And, yeah, decades later with the set is broken up (some glasses just broken) they do tend to wind up on flea market tables and thrift store shelves.

 

Looks like the Pabst and Carling glasses might have come from this novelty set, which you could have picked up at the Uniontown, PA Montgomery Ward in July 1973 (and many other fine retailers, no doubt).



(Yeah, seems cheap but according to the BLS, that's equivalent to over $10 today! "Special Buy" my ass. I'd have used the money to buy a six of Ballantine Ale and have money left over for a few games of pinball or some payphone calls or something.)

 

THE CBC glass is a Belgian Tulip.

https://belmont.craftbeercellar.com/cbc-belgian-tulip-16oz-cbcbelgiantulipglass/

 

I've noticed that these glasses seem to show up very frequently in pics in the New Beer Sunday thread. Is there a backstory as to why they're so popular given that, as you say, Jester King isn't all that widely distributed?

It is a pretty badass glass so maybe that's the long and short of it.

 

I believe a certain individual enjoys gifting this glass in beer boxes. More specifically, BIF boxes. Just an observation.

 

The beers have limited distribution but glasses can be ordered from their gift shop.

 

No backstory really, like you say it's a cool glass graphic. There really aren't that many kicking around in the BA forums, just that many of us primarily/only use that glass. I picked up three of them on Ebay, paying way too much. Right now Jester King is selling them 2/$14 plus $10 shipping. And damn - could not resist pulling the trigger on two more just now. What the hell do I need five of them for?

https://shop.jesterkingbrewery.com/products/snorkel-glass-pair

 

If you go through glasses anything like I do, that's only about 18 months worth, so don't beat yourself up about it

 

I have had a couple of close calls, but haven't broken a beer glass in the 2 years I've been into craft. But spares are good, I'm due.

 

always impressed by your knowledge. wow

 

Thank you very much for the link! There are now 2 en route to me....
Thanks again!

 

Welcome to the Snörkel club!

 

I'm just glad I didn't have to trade for one......cheers!