Show us you favorite stein.

@ATL6245 I love you for this thread. Long story short my grandparents were stationed in Germany in the 50s and 60s and brought home a crap ton of steins. My strung out cousin took them all and pawned them. Consequently that side of my family doesn't understand why I dislike them so much... anyway, here is a shot of current stoneware mugs. Not sure if youd call them steins but whatever. Technically most are tankard, and there are a few more tankards not pictured.

 

Brought this back as a souvenir from Munich. Not sure if it counts, it's just a mini. But I like looking at it, not crazy about drinking out of steins, mugs, etc.

 

And somebody left this little mug in their trash the other day, along with a whole bunch of beer glassware...

 

I have a habit of buying one every year I make it to the Colorado Renaissance Festival.

 

Holly cow! Pick just one?

This was my great-grandfather’s. He probably got it after emigrating, as he and his two brothers were young boys when they were sent over. (My research hit a roadblock, if anyone has leads, please send them my way). Knowing that it was from their home town, and had been used by at least three generations before me, makes it a sentimental favorite.





I use it occasionally. Too bad the brewery closed before I could try their beer.

 

Really nice collection ,I always liked those types of steins/tankards.
Im always amazed when family screws up and they are in utter shock when someone gets mad at them.
I've worked in the field of addiction and its not taken into account how much damage is done. Money stolen,jewelry pawned, although this is a first for me hearing it was steins

 

Here are three of many. Way down there in the bottom of the cabinet!

 

My uncle, the father of the cousin who pawned the steins, pawned off my grandfather's Civil War Navy cutlass for Coke. Its a shame.

 

If I had a dollar for every story I've heard like this i could probably buy back all the stuff in every pawn shop. Its beyond a shame and sorry that happened.

 

Yikes. I hope it was a 12-pack. Nah, sorry......I've got all of my Dad's stuff from his last stint in The Philippines- including medals and commendations ( a personal letter from George Marshall). But no weapons. He swore them off......

 

My parents had a few of those that my mom shipped back from a trip overseas in the mid 1950’s. Probably German as she was at the Mercedes factory picking up a friends car, a gullwing. They traveled all over for the summer shipping things back home and eventually shipped the car back via ship.

Back to point. I ruined these when I was young due to the malleable pewter tops. It was fun bending metal in my hands. Oh well.

Enjoy

 

One of my favorites, from the Avon collection. I like the overall design and the art work, and the paw print on the tang is particularly cool.



Another of my favorites. My sister found this and gave it to me in remembrance of Brittany, my springer spaniel. We didn't hunt, but she sure loved the gun range.

 

Ok, here’s the fun favorite.



Schultz & Dooley are an inseparable pair.

 

And the style favorite. Jugendstil steins



I have a salt pot, from my maternal grandparents, to match the stein n the right.

 

These pix got deleted, so adding them back for the archives.

 

I posted these last Oktoberfest... this was a gift from the wife on one of our early anniversaries.

 

Jugendstil is essentially the German version of Art Nouveau. These two were gifts, from my wife, and I think they are 21st C. reproductions. The salt pot is from the period, and it is unclear if it emigrated with the family.

They had roughly 753 children, so the stories get a bit jumbled.

 

finally got one of these on my last germany trip. am now an official old guy.

 

yeah. hand-made by büttnerei weis near bad staffelstein north of bamberg germany

 

welcome. these are still in use by quite a few old timers over there, so it's legit and truly practical. fun, too.

 

I just happened to be watching Antiques Roadshow tonight while reading your posts. I found a screen grab of these wooden steins:

 

Nice item. Hey, I've got a wooden mug, too, but it's ...uh...different.

(Perhaps as different as the current PBR is from classic German lagers?)

A number of US brewers offered pewter mugs as promotional items over the years. I've got a few - Black Horse Ale and Ballantine Ale come to mind. Rather than take a photo of the latter, I'll just add a pic of this POP poster that featured one.

(Not actual size)