Dad's Old Pilsner Glasses

Yeah, my Dad had (maybe still has?) the same. Would be interested in this as well. I know we still have some old hour glass shaped glasses, and some of these but with vintage Fighting Illini branding (I grew up in Champaign IL, ha second time I've mentioned that today, not intentional)

 

I have a couple of Spiegelau IPA glasses that are super thin walled. Maybe they make pilsner glasses as well?

 

I absolutely love these old style Pils glasses, perfect for the beers. Have a few 70s glasses left from an old set that I got from my dad. Unfortunately most I managed to break thru hard use. Using one now.

 

Ha I was going to joke that maybe Spiegelau made them.

But the OP said this was years ago.

 

My neighbor found a couple of boxes of these when he bought a house. He gave me one of the boxes which was old and dusty and had obviously sat in a basement for years. There were 12 in the box. They are very delicate. Hand wash only.

 

According to the Spiegelau site, they've been hand crafting glass for 5 centuries

It looks as though they do make a pilsner glass now too. Might do the trick for OP

 

Man, that glass will set you back $35-$40 on amazon now. Protect that case with your life
This seems like a nice pilsner glass and it is nucleated https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BR3M12...cement - Gift Idea for Men&sb-ci-a=B07BR3M12K
Also for cleaning, I use a small one of these https://www.amazon.com/Decanter-Cle...1&refRID=P627143ENJ7SFN4HYVZB#customerReviews. A dirty beer glass will give itself away way faster than any other liquid and this has become my main cleaning utensil

 

Ha well crap. I almost wrote “although I bet Spiegelau has been around forever.”

 

Oh wow! I never even suspected. I’ve given some away over the past few years. And now that I think about it, there may not have been 12 in the box. I still have seven.
Here’s the box.

 

Years ago I though Pilsner was a type of glass not a style of beer!

 

The OP mentions that today;'s Pilsener glasses are too thick. Well 16 months ago I bought my wife Sixpoint Pilsener glasses for Christmas. She lovesThe Crisp and Aplen Flo so I thought it was a slam dunk.
She opened the present and they are super thin, delicate and beautiful. Fast forward to the present and..........we never use them. My wife and I are clumsy and we're always worried about these glasses breaking if we look at them wrong.

 

I need that type of brush. Thanks


Enjoy

 

I'd hit up local flea markets, yard sales, junk stores, thrift shops, Salvation Army/Good Will, etc. You can probably pick some up for 25¢ - $1 each.

 

Rastal ain’t cheap!! Especially if it’s vintage like yours. What a great find! Definitely a gorgeous glass worth holding onto for good. Thanks for sharing!

 

Why can't it be both?

Not that Wikipedia is always accurate, I'm fairly certain many places call types of glasses "Pilsner" glasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_glassware#Pilsner_glass

I always thought that about my Spiegelau glasses...but knock on wood I've only broken one and I use them just about every single week.

 

I guess the local corner liquor store in your neighborhood didn't have this former-NJ brewery's neon in their window then, huh?

It was there in "Pete's Liquors" where I grew up as long as can remember (next to this Ballantine Ale neon), and it stayed up long after Krueger brand was bought by Narrangansett and slowly disappeared from the NJ market.

(I still get annoyed when I pass that store and it's filled with Bud and Coors neons now - under new ownership. Pete's long dead and his brother Max retired - who I used to "talk beer" with and who special ordered many a beer for me, heck, he even used to let me poke around the "employees only" beer cooler.)

 

The concern here is that the Spiegelau Pilsner Glasses did not 'replicate' the glass shape that you would prefer? Maybe you could make a concession to expediency here and purchase them anyway to achieve the aspect of a thin glass Pilsner Glass?

Cheers!