Show us you favorite stein.

Great thread, but I have nothing particularly special on this front. Just my 50th Anniversary New Braunfels Wurstfest stein. Wurstfest is a pretty popular German festival in Texas Hill Country. Which also consumes Gruene Texas cause there are tons of people, with their famous Gruene Hall (famous music venue). They do a stein every year, I have been more than once, but this is the only stein I have...or maybe I got more and lost them in all the drunkenness but this is the only one I still have ha.

 

I only wish I owned it. My favorite picture of a stein.

 

OMG. I have that same stein. It holds 5L. On the bottom is stamped the number "1113" and the words "Made in West Germany" as well as a logo "CW". There is a little yellow sticker, also on the bottom, that has the word "Corzelius" on it. I bought it in 1983 from the Army and Air Force Exchange Service when stationed in Germany. I never tried to put five liters of beer into it though. I don't think that it is worth much as it was sold by the PX. But is an interesting conversation piece.

I wouldn't leave it on a shelf near an entrance door.

 

Vintage from the 60´s

 

This Glorious stein was on a shelf outside an Assisted Living Apartment in Wichita Falls where my parents once lived a few years ago. Cheers!

 

I will show you the back of this stein tonight. Of course a trout with a ring in it's mouth....

 

The back of the stein, as promised:

 

If I owned it, it would be my favorite. But here's a pic of a stein that I took thru a gift shop store window in Wiesbaden Germany 5-6 years ago.


If the datasheet at the bottom of the pic is too small to read, here is a larger view:

 

8 gallons? Rookie numbers

 

Here is my favorite Stein. Amazing photographer as well.

Could not resist, I have no stein and probably never will for drinking.

Enjoy

 

I know; some of them are priceless..

 

Yeah, but 8 oz. glasses of beer.
How 20th century of them.
That's a "sampler/taster" in the US today.

 

I prefer to think that it's one glass of beer. Yeah an all-day glass, but only one glass.

 

Can you imagine the difficulty of drinking out of that stein? Fifty pounds for the stein's weight and approximately 66 pounds for the beer (I'm using the weight of water @ 8.34 lbs per gallon) comes to 116 pounds to tip up to your lips.