How do you take yours?

Excellent. I Love Surveys! ^_^ I use my Pilsner Urquell glasses for...well...pilsners I use big heavy pint glasses (the faceted kind you see in pubs) for porters and stouts because I like to look at them. When diving and beach-ing it I drink right out of the pint (and I'm not ashamed ^_^) I don't usually drink from bottles because I don't think it is ladylike. Especially at gatherings.

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I can't recall the last time I drank a beer straight from a bottle. I like to use British nonic-style imperial pint glasses for most ales. Snifters for most Belgians and strong ales. I used heavy sided mugs for most lagers and fluted pilsners for pilsner and wheat glasses for wheats. If I'm camping, I bring plastic cups - yes it adds a plasticky smell but I'm not out there for careful sampling. its still better than straight from the bottle. Sometimes an SS travel mug works well. If I'm in a hotel, I use one of the room glasses. its not of ideal shape but it works.

I always rinse between beers, or change glasses, esp. if its a different style.

Wow, That's a lot of different glasses! Thanks for your take on washing/rinsing. BTW I use a 1 pint glass which arches bigger at the top, or just a 16oz if it'll fit (whatever's clean). Don't drink outta the bottle anymore, but will if necessary. Anyone try to save a beer overnight by putting a stop in it? Any good luck with transferring it to a plastic container for a trek? I wonder why they don't sell beer in those box containers like wine, no air to contaminate the beer.

Mike

I've got about 20 glasses at this point I think, and collecting's soon to become my new obsession. I've got a variety of generic shakers, some really nice tall, heavy-footed fluted pilsners, two footed wine-glassy style pils glasses, a lambic flute, a couple Guinness imperial pints, a Schiltz and a Falstaff glass goblet, and a Corsendonk tulip that gets the most usage ever since I broke my beloved Maudite tulip. The wife got me the six-pack of trappist brewery glasses for my birthday, so I'll have those soon.

The right glass makes a huge difference. Plus, they just look darn cool on the shelf.

You need a good thistle and a weizen glass. (I've filled up our "china" cabinet, and have slowed way down in the glass collecting department, at least in part to preserve marital bliss.)

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Thistle, yes, need that. Forgot about the weizen glass. Yes, it's very nice, and I drink loads of weizens in the summer. The wife is _currently_ supportive of collecting. Give it a few months, and I'm guessing said support with evaporate.

At home I use my old Grandpa's glass bottomed pewter pint tankard , that must be at least 85 years old..

At my local pub I have my own (non glass bottomed) pewter tankard given to me by my Dad on my 21st birthday (now over 30 years old) , it hangs above the bar together with all the other 'regulars' mugs and tankards.

Both will be passed on to my son as heirlooms.

Dave

I drink out of the bottle when I'm at a party (by party I mean 30 or more twenty-something year-olds getting together at someone's place; not a sit down dinner) regardless of what I'm drinking.

I'll also drink out of a bottle when I'm hanging out with the guys and we're going through a 24-pack of Molson or whatever.

I only use canned beer as a hang over cure. Don't ask me why, but first thing in the morning, nothing alleviates the headache like a can of Molson Dry.

If I'm drinking anything else, I'll pour it into a glass. I don't bother to get glasses meant for each different style of beer. I have the regular collection of glassware that I picked up at Wal-Mart when I moved into my place along with a few pint glasses. The glass I pick is determined only by the size of the bottle. Smaller (i.e. 341 mL) bottles can fit in my regular glasses while bigger (some microbreweries here use 660 mL bottles, others use 750 mL bottles) find their way into pint glasses.

Richard

All my serious tasting is done in a thistle anymore; holds the aroma so well, allows for quick warming through a range of temps, makes me look like a snooty son of a bitch. In general, I'm a fan of matching the beer to the right glass, but I usually default to a snifter for stronger beers, a tulip pint for session material.

--NPD

I usually drink from the bottle. Even at a nice restaurant when I order a beer and the waiter brings me a glass, I say, "No thanks." I even drink from...no flames please.....cans!

Derek Taylor

I use different glasses for different styles, the small thin Kolsch glasses for Kolsch, the short, stubby Alt glasses for alt, etc etc. Make a big difference in terms of nose and even taste, which are related of course. Drinking beer out of a bottle or can realyl does deprive you of part of the experience.

--Dan E

Why do you prefer drinking form the bottle? Just curious...

---------->Denny

Dude, if you run a site about beer you need to invest in some glassware. You would not believe how much more of an experience it can open up.

Try a hefe (or stout) in a tall slender hefe glass, or experience Duvel in it's exaggerated tulip-shaped glass. Try a hoegaarden in the chunky 70's style water glass. Try a great lager or Rogue American Amber in heavy a 20oz dimpled mug.

I've got more glassware than I've got space for. In Dallas there is a bar called the Flying Saucer and every Wednesday they would have brewery night wherein you buy the beer and keep that beer's special glass. I've got glasses for Aventinus, Orval, Chimay, Hoegaarden, Paulaner (lager & hefe), Spaten special 2000, Belhaven, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Snifter, Schneider Weisse, Fischer, New Belgium, etc. etc. etc.

You're missing out!

_Randal

I am so jealous, all that beer, all those glasses! I feel like I'm getting the short end of the stick in Wyoming.

Mike

Heh. I had the space, but it was tight. My admittedly expensive solution: buy a bigger house. Moving in starting tonight.

We've had occasional specials like that in my hometown too. Sometimes, it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Last year was the

20th year that MBI had been importing Chimay into the USA, and they celebrated with 20th anniversary parties at select bars. I happened to be in one, and got a commemorative Chimay chalice; it has the usual Chimay logo on one side, but also has a "Peres Trappists" seal on the other side. I've been handed free glassware in Belgium and Germany, in addition to what I've been given or have bought over the years.

Now, I just have to figure out where I'm going to put them all in the new house...