Bayernbiere Bought and Drunk

It also seems most of them are on this forum....both from the US and Germany....

 

It's tough love!

@breadwinner , I don't know what your locale is like, but I bought two generic 50 cl wheat beer glasses from a restaurant supply store in Germany for less than €2,00 each and they've been quite serviceable. Proper glassware is a big part of the German beer drinking experience!

(sorry, not intended to undercut any SteveH offers!)

 

Ironically, I'd actually kept an eye out while running errands on Saturday for some proper glassware but didn't find anything. Hope to remedy that shortly, but, in the meanwhile, had to make due.

Of the many things German brewing has passed on to the American craft scene, apparently nerdery over glassware is one of them

 

Women can have their shoes and purses, we can have our cool glassware (or as my wife calls 'em, fancy glasses* ).


*And she's the one who bought 'em for me!

 

Hahaha, my wife has used the same language, though I'm never ending in my quest to win her over to the dark side and made significant progress a couple days ago when she commandeered a Gordon Biersch maibock I was drinking.

 

I thought americans were happy putting a lot of their craft ales in simple, unappealing shaker pints??
And germany isn't soooooo nerdy when it comes to glasses, compare it to belgium...

 

Those would be the amateurs.

 

Well, my wife's favorite beer is Hacker-Pschorr Weizen or Franziskaner -- and she had her own Weizen glasses before I met her.

 

I think Germans are more obsessed with having beer in a glass period, rather than the type of glassware, with the exception of a hefeweizen for the massive head on the beer.

Otherwise, Americans are FAR worse. It seems fairly contradictory to me the fact that lower abv beers which are more subtle, should be in nonic pints, and then flavor bombs like double IPAs and barrel-aged stouts should be in snifters and tulips.

Oh, and then the worst part of all.....the "number one beer in the world" is acceptable (in fact, recommended) to be consumed out of a can. Something I don't think I've ever seen any European do, whether from the UK, Germany or Belgium.

Disclaimer: I still put my double IPAs and imperial stouts in snifters, so I'm a hypocrite. But this has more to do with me being a glassware ***** and the fact that I love the novelty of using the brewery's glass with each beer.

 

Maybe like 20 years ago. I mean, don't get me wrong, the shaker pint still gets used commonly, but fancy glassware is becoming a bit more ubiquitous.

 

Not that you don't already know it, but clearly you chose wisely

 

Exactly, for franconian beers you need exactly 2 glasses: a seidla/willybecher/krug, 0,5l for all bottom fermenting beers, and a weizenglass ,0,5l, for all variations of weizen.

if you want to be really, really picky you can add a maß, 1,0l of the krug to your lineup for festbiers

 

I'm not German, so I can't say, but I'd humbly submit that any old glass won't do, and I imagine pouring a kolsch into anything other than a stange has to considered blasphemy.

As for the contradictions, blame the English, not the Americans - they're the ones with the milds/bitters in 20oz nonics.

I was actually wondering about this -- for Franconian beer, even something like a pilsner, a willibecher or seidla is acceptable? I like having fancy glassware as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day I'm more utilitarian than anything, so I was thinking of just picking up a nice seidla or willi and calling it a day.

 

Nothing like a half-liter of Klosterbrau pils served in a ceramic Seidla. Drank many at the Bootshaus Biergarten in Bamberg.

 

Yeah I was going to say I think this comes from Belgium more. Shaker pints? Rarely, at least not at the places I frequent in the US, sometimes for a pale ale or something, but most places serve good beer in tulip glasses, snifters, tekus etc...

 

Mainly shaker pints and snifters here.

 

Ah, yes, I was also wondering about the ceramics -- I like the rusticity, but it sort of kills your ability to admire the beer, no?

 

Yes, it is. Also in a Krug. There a few bigger breweries (bayreuther Aktien, bamberger Kaiserdom etc.) who serve their Pils in 0,4l big tulips. Which i kind of hate.
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But most smaller, "real" breweries stay true and put their Pils in their normal glassware, and everyone is fine with it. Including me.
Sitting there with a tulip feels wrong.

 

Nope...

 

Yeah, the tulip just feels wrong, (kinda like putting a weizen in a nonic pint!), but if the willibecher/seidla are good enough for most brews, that works just fine for me. The willibecher has kinda become my go-to glass anyway for most American stuff like pale ales, IPAs, basic porters/stouts, etc.