Glass Comparison

Sorta. I had Foolproof Backyahd IPA in a pint glass and it was very better. Had it in a tulip and it was less bitter and more drinkable. So yeah I think glassware does matter.

 

Yep. its funny that you say that - I had the same experience with a Brown Shugga. For me, I think the tulip helped me get a little of that sweet brown sugar aroma to cut the alcohol

I'm a big sucker for drinking certain beers out of certain glasses.

 

Im very particular about my glassware...ipa only in a dogfish ipa glass, Boston lager in the Sam adams glass, etc

 

I'll pour most of my beer into my snifters, but porters and lagers usually end up in pint glasses. I have more glassware than I know what to do with.

 

There is no better drinking vessel for beer than a 16 ounce wide mouth kerr canning jar. Don't use ball, it must be a wide mouth kerr. I have a store of them at the house that I drink out of.

 

I try to drink all beers out of my Samuel Smith pint glass...

 

I use a weizen glass for my wheats, a tulip for my IPA's and other aromatic beers, a snifter for anything high alc, and a faceted pint glass for everything else.

 

I never realized just how much using a pilsner glass would increase my pilsner drinking experience until I got one. Man, those beers look simply beautiful in their proper glassware, and the carbonation keeps up the whole time.

 

When it comes to glassware, it does matter but mostly from an aroma perspective rather than taste.

 

#properglassware

 

I've found that IPAs are best from a tall tulip glass, like Ommegang's or Unibroue's. In fact most styles of beer taste awesome in that glass.

 

Glassware makes a huge difference to the aroma of beers. When I have a big bottle to myself I often split it between different glasses to note the differences. My standard glasses are a 660ml red wine glass and a 700ml snifter.
I have found that the snifter generally gives a sweeter nose than the wine glass. Sours don't smell quite right in the snifter, as the funk seems to be hidden behind a sweeter note.

 

+1. If I understood the OP correctly, it was the same beer from the same bottle. Depending on the starting temperature from the fridge and how long he was in the garage, the taste flavor would have changed somewhat noticeably when the beer got warmer.

To the topic, most of my beers are now drank from a snifter, because of the same observation.

 

My tulip glass was my go-to for Brown Shugga' last year.

 

I brought one back with me from Prague and use it every time I open a pilsener.

 

Nope. beer tastes the same to me and many of my buds in a paper cup.

 

At home, I try to stick with a Duvel tulip (first beer glass I ever bought, still my favorite) or a Reidel wine glass. When the glass has that nice and wide base and you can kind of stick your whole face in when you drink, you get that nose with the sipping, it's on another level. It's the main reason I think IPAs so dominate the beer drinking landscape. A floral IPA/DIPA is only really matched by a ballsy stout, IMO.

If I'm out, whatever they give me is fine. I'm not particular about glassware in public.

 

Sometimes if I'm out working in the garden I'll throw a couple bottles of whatever IPA is in the fridge into a large plastic cup and bring it with me outside.....

 

And around 70%(?) of taste comes from your sense of smell. So it certainly will affect taste.