Glass shaped like a can

Depending on your accuracy and load. I mean it's possible, I'd say start with buckshot at about 10 yards and go from there.

 

What kind of "enhancements" are you looking for the glass to do, OP?

Just saying, in my experience looking cool and feeling good in your hand are pretty much the only "enhancements" that any type of glass has the capability of offering. Does the aroma of a good stout come through a little better in a snifter than a pint glass? Sure. But I think anything beyond that is reaching.

 

I have indeed tested my Sly Fox can shaped glass. Here is my full report.

It does indeed hold beer
It does indeed look cool
It does indeed allow you to drink beer from this particular glass
It does indeed allow the beer to taste good
It does not have any etching to provide turbulence of said beer
It does have a cool logo from the brewery where I go it
I did not have to pay for it (had to run a 5k to get it, but that was fun too)

Result is that the glass does indeed provide a beneficial purpose, in fact 2 purposes. It allows me to drink beer from it AND it makes me happy.

*End of report*

 

We have a bar near the brewery that serves Boat in a mason jar and for a while i noticed that in general i love drinking it there. It's just a great bar that doesn't take it self too seriously and i was always aware of Boat's aroma as i raised the glass to my face. In general though i don't find mason jars comfortable in my hand. The can glass solved that. It has a height and shape and opening diameter that throws aroma without needing to agitate or go inside looking. We now have them in the brewery and i just feel it is a great glass for Boat, but not many of our other beers, even the double IPA. If i extend this experience my guess is it's a great glass for small, aromatic ales you will be drinking a couple of in a row, so if you like those types of beer, and have room on your glass shelf i'd pick a couple up.

 

just eat it, bro. get the carb load.

 

I like drinking out of mason jars because they have a more solid feel to them. They do nothing for aroma so I don't drink much beer out of them, but they are good for a glass of ice water or something.

Beer drinking is supposed to be fun, not an exercise in rooting out gimmicks and redundancy. So if you have fun drinking out of a glass can i say cheers.

 

This is absolute bullsh*t! That is NOT the case.

EDIT- Never mind. Apparently I had the glass upside down (dates from the era of "beer can collecting/open from the bottom" I guess).

Now ---- where do we keep that mop?

 

Simple mistake. 45 and 180 degrees are easily confused. I mean, who has a protractor just laying around anyway?

 

I use one from Newburyport Brewing quite often. I can't pinpoint what it is, but I really like it for pretty much any style. Not quite as much as my Sam Adams Perfect Pint, but it's very nice.

 

Augie,

Thanks for your post and your input of “it's a great glass for small, aromatic ales.”

I will use my Yards Smoke’em If Yous Got ‘Em can shaped glass the next time I drink my homebrewed Bitter Ale.

Cheers!

Jack

 

It might hold beer and allow you to drink from it, but it falls short in the "let people know I am an better than they are from across the room" that you get with proper glassware.

Nothing says privilege like pouring a beer they never heard of into a teku glass from a brewery they will never go to.

 

First they came up with beer bottles made out of aluminum, now beer cans made out of glass, God I LOVE this country! What will they come up with next?

 

If you are in the market for beer glasses maybe this 4 glass set is to your liking:http://www.amazon.com/Spiegelau-Tas...r=8-5&keywords=spiegelau+beer#customerReviews

At last years National Homebrewers Conference they had classroom demonstrations of these glasses (plus they gave the 4-packs away for attending). I personally did not attend (all of the demos were booked up) but all of the people who attended were impressed by these glasses.

Cheers!

 

I hate the way those IPA glasses with the weird stem thing on the bottom look and feel. I don't care if they made bud light taste like heady topper, I wouldn't drink out of one.

 

i have those. all i really use are the tulips and the pilsner shapes. i'd avoid the 4 pack and grab a couple of those particular ones. unless you consume a ton of traditional hefes out of traditional bottles. then that wheat glass would be a cool piece.

 

Is there a reason you avoid the Lager glass? I happen to own the Lager glass (I like that it is 20 ounces and has plenty of head room for foam/head) and I use it a lot for my 'um Lagers.

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the Spiegelau demonstrations at NHC 2013 to learn what the instructors had to say but it is my understanding that the ‘features’ of these glasses that benefit the drinking experience is:

· Shape/form/opening

· Rim design (specifically the ‘low profile’ rim)

· Quality of the glass design (very thin glass vs. the thick glass of a shaker glass).

I took a wine appreciation course and the instructor harped upon the need for proper wine glasses and the need for these glasses to have a ‘good’ rim. I have sets of Riedel wine glasses (Red wine, White wine, etc.) and these glasses have very ‘low profile’ rims. The wine appreciation instructor stated that the turbulence that is created when wine goes over a ‘thick’ rim (e.g., a Libby wine glass) will affect the drinking experience. I assume that Spiegelau made their beer glasses with ‘low profile’ rims to avoid this same turbulence effect.

Cheers!

 

Now I'm just really curious how you poured it. Sounds like it would have looked pretty impressive.

Wait, which one of those four is considered the lager glass? The IPA and Wheat glasses are pretty apparent--I guess the tulip is being called the Tall Pilsner glass?

 

just volume. i use them in my house, so there is no need to have 17 ounces in 1 glass at 1 time.
I'd love them in a bar, drinking draft, where the time between available fills can stretch out beyond what i control. In my home however i tend to have multiple bottles working at any one time so i can put 4 ounces in the snifter work with it for a while and switch around while the beer develops in the open bottle on or off ice depending.
If i am drinking draft at home i am working with 2 types of beer at any one time so depending on what i am looking for in the experience i use a teku (trying to dissect component ideas(working)), snifter (just drinking something with big ballsy aromas that i want to see develop with temp but will get in trouble if i rush) , pilsner ((or the can glass for Boat (just drinking something i like to drink over the night and will drink fast enough going to the taps will be annoying))

 

My home is different from your home. The majority of beers I consume at home are homebrewed bottle conditioned bottles. I typically have a fill level of 12.5-13 ounces and since the beer are bottle conditioned (with yeast sediment on the bottom) I need to pour the bottle into one glass and leave the sediment behind. Some of my homebrewed beers produces a BIG fluffy white head. The 20 ounce Spiegelau glass 'works' perfectly for this application.

I would like to drink my homebrewed Pilsners (CAP, Bohemian Pilsner) from the Spiegelau Pilsner glass but they are just too small. For my Pilsners I use my Three Stooges 0.5L glass which 'works' OK: