Dad's Old Pilsner Glasses

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My daughter has a set of these and they are indeed thin, to the point I won't use them for fear of breaking it. So if you goal is to have a thin pilsner glass, these would fit the bill

 

On the subject of glass I’m always on the lookout, I found some Waterford Cognac glasses mint on Saturday for $20 a piece at a consignment shop in Mt Airey. They’re easily worth twice that.

 

Well, as noted often, US beer glass names vary from brewery to brewery, region to region, glass mfg. to glass mfg., etc., and, as noted in the below illustration from AB, they listed 3 different pilsner styles - sham, footed (what the OP is looking for) and I'll call the above closest to the flair pilsner (I'd also call it the "too-easy-to-knock-over pilsner".

 

Kind of looks more like the "hour glass"

The "flair pilsner" reminds me of this glass.

 

Not to me - the classic US "hour glass glass" looked like this:

Pretty common branded glass at one time - most major brewers used them and if you asked for a "glass" of beer, that or a sham pilsner was usually what you were served.

I'd call that Samuel Adams glass a cross between the Flair and the Sham pilsner styles. "Sham" refers to the thick "bulb" of solid glass at the base - so a "Sham Flair Pilsner"?

But, yeah, as I said - lots of names, lots of variations of glass designs...

 

The Spiegelau is the same shape as the hour glass glass to me, just thinner. But yes, all different variations all over the place. I wouldn't call it a flair though, since there's no flair at the top.

Sham Flair Pilsner works for the Noble Pils glass...or just "Pilsner".

 

I need pics of this circa 1985 55oz beer bucket in action.

Kidding aside, that Heidelberg Goblet looks fascinating but couldn't find any pics...

 

Kind of?



I also have this one at home...still not quite it though.

 

The 40oz wax carton caught my eye!

 

Oh, those were around into the 80-90s as growlers (except most were quart sized?) When some states started enacting mandatory bottle deposits, brewers encouraged their use again for bars that wanted to sell "beer to go" but didn't want to handles bottle returns.

The round ones with slip on lids like the U.C. below were real common in NJ into the early '70s. Called simply "containers", only thing you could buy when liquor stores were closed on Sunday or after 10 pm, and taverns couldn't sell bottles or cans to-go when liquors store were not open.

Yeah, I never heard of true metal "growlers" being around that late...but, who knows? It's how my grandfather paid for his Harvard education.


Also, I think some of you guys are taking those simple drawings of the beer glasses too seriously. That sham pilsner isn't right (the yellow "beer" shouldn't be in the solid glass "sham"), the shell has too much taper to it, most mugs had false-bottoms, many schooners weren't tapered, etc.

 

Bucket! Bucket? Everyone in Chicago knows that's a growler. Just watch that first scene of The Untouchables.

 

Sorry, I never really took any pictures at McCabe's on Growler Night in Dekalb, IL circa 1980.

I do remember one of those buckets being used for something other than beer by an over-served patron...

 

Or check out my GROWLER page.

But, yeah, it is curious that AB choose "bucket". Regionalism? "Growler" came to have a bad reputation by the early 1900s pre-Pro, but that illustration's from the 1980s.

OTOH, Ol' Hank called it a bucket, too.

 

Beer mugs are my favorite kind of beer glass but the model below is my absolute favorite. Just has a perfect balance between the heavy base, the chiseled bottom pattern, and the proportions are just right. Haven't come across one over here sadly, seems like it's solely an American design.

 

Must use this!

 

Indeed.

Maybe a bad rep by the 1900s, but it was back in fashion 80 years later! I'd honestly never heard the term until I went to college, but a couple years later I visited the Chicago Historical Society (now called the Chicago History Museum, I believe) and they had a couple of those early 20th century examples on display -- Hey -- growlers!

Hmm, yeah -- Hank.

 

I hate those schooner glasses. A few places use them for Belgian beers. They are heavy and look to be a lot of beer but they don’t hold too much at all.

Enjoy

 

I-L-L! Now only if I could find one with a “Kam’s” logo

 

Only a couple?

 

@mklmg Ebay has a ton of Warsteiner pilsener glasses

https://www.ebay.com/b/Warsteiner/bn_21838275