Beer glassware

A beer glass is a drinking vessel made of glass in various forms, which is used primarily for the serving of beer. The material glass is typical of the beer glass, but also plastics are used for such glasses are used. The basic ways of beer glasses are consistent with the made ​​of earthenware " clay " steins.

Many restaurants no longer follow the local or regional traditions to select the typical glass of beer. On the other hand, also the matching accessories including glasses supplied by brand bonds from the bound brewery. The related beers are intended to support the special taste of the beers.

• 3.1 Germany
• 3.2 Austria
• 3.3 Switzerland
• 3.4 France, Belgium, Luxembourg
• 3.5 UK, Ireland, USA

Traditional lens shapes

From drinking to technical reasons - taste perception and handling - and on the other from the regional habits of different types of beer beer glass shapes have traditionally been developed or preferred. Clear boundaries there is no more, because some beers and their glasses have become popular throughout Germany. Because there is such a wide variety of glasses in the cities, is often forgotten, as the jars hot.

Bavaria

• The Weiß-/Weizenbierglas is typical in its form of wheat beer. The glass extends from the foot upward and closes to the edge to something. With the proliferation of this type of beer it was also used nationwide.
• The Willi cup for Bright is the standard form of a pale - bellied beer glass.
• The beer mug for Bright is used mostly as a pint glass (= measure ) and has a handle for better handling.
• A special feature, because it is not glass, forming the Zoigl stein. He developed the Zoigl. With its materials that kept freshly filled beer cool, the earthenware pitcher won the further spread.
• The Bock beer glass is a glass with handle in a bulging shape.

Franconia

• Franken has a broad tradition of family and domestic breweries and so no single beer glass tradition. The stone jars are different for the regional here Zoigl by their motives or regionally oriented designs from other pitchers.

Thuringia

• The Black Beer Cup is a pedunculated goblet, which is used for dark beer.

Baden-Wurttemberg

Here the glass jug has become common for export beer, which was good and handy with its cylindrical shape and a handle, albeit in smaller grounding as the Bavarian beer mug.

North Rhine -Westphalia

• The Willi cup is used here mainly for export beer.
• The Dortmund Stösschen is a sleek, tapered top beer glass and a local specialty, is served in the export beer. In the original, there was no calibration mark, the capacity is not fixed, and is 0.1 to 0.18 liters. Since 2004 there is a calibration mark at 0.1 l
• The typical local Kölsch is served in the bar Cologne (Kölsch bar ).
• In neighboring Dusseldorf the most cylindrical, sometimes slightly conical dark beer mug for the Düsseldorf Alt is used.
• The beer ball for export beer is a curved glass that has a stem on a spherical top-opening content.

Southern Lower Saxony

• In Hanover - tun, a conical glass, beer is served.
• The Bock Beer here is a larger version of a cylindrical gläseren jug with handle.

Indication

For this region, are obtained for the drinking habits of Pils both the use of a beer mug as well as the use of beer tulips. The handiness in the pitcher arises from the scheduled Henkel, the Biertulpe can be kept by the rising from the foot expansion of the scale well at the bottom glass part.

Berlin

As a refreshing drink in the Berlin Ausflusgaststätten the Berliner Weisse was popular with and without income. Typical for the area and type of beer is the Berlin - White - bowl, a hemispherical shell with a long handle.

Glass drinking vessels for beer

The bottom narrow and pot-bellied Willy cup, named after its inventor Willy Steinmeier, has since the invention of 1954, the German Standard Glass for the usual restaurant serving and home use. Especially in the restaurant business these thin-walled glasses have the advantage that they cool faster after the warm soapy water. Heavy, thick-walled glass because (or clay ) tankard, however, have the advantage of being more resistant to breakage during operation. With a handle for better handling the Bezichnung Henkel glass is common, other names are in accordance with the clay jugs of beer jug or tankard.

In addition to the continuous beer mugs stalked the glasses are another group. The basic shape is the tulip beer, a long dish on a relatively short stalk. The cup, the glass for fine beers and the beer sommelier, has a wider and shorter top part on a longer stalk. The swivel with its large wide bowl on a short style is used especially for dark (ie, malty ) and other specialty beers. As the short-stemmed beer glass beer cup with a long, usually conical shell is called, which is particularly suitable for Pilsner beers. The beer ball is characterized by the lower spherical portion which opens up to a Stielfuß from. The also stemmed beer flute is used for smaller sizes or nobler beers. The champagne glass similar to the flute has a long, narrow upper shell.

A local shape forms the Tübingen Bierseidel, also known as the Tübingen rolling Seidel, Ernst Seidel Tübingen, Tübingen, ball, ball Tübingen Tübingen Seidel and hedgehog called. In the English-speaking world the pint glass is used in cylindrical or conical shape, which accommodates a pint of beer. The boot is a tall glass vessel in the form of a boot that is used for drinking games and as an attraction during drinking sessions.

Besides these terms are shown separately in the Switzerland, the designations Herrgoettli, Kübli and Rugeli common.

From design round indentations on the glass exterior of the Maßkrugs that give the eyes pot of their name, a traditional glass, where the term Eyes May in Austria and Bavaria is common. While this ornament rather occurs on round vessels, are preferably cylindrical beer Seideln (Henkel glasses, beer mugs ) various forms of longitudinal strips, which are probably also serve to stability. More recently, market-oriented breweries vessel forms with special design to be developed. Example of the mixing of traditions is the sail Glass for white beer of Stralsund Störtebeker BrauManufaktur, which is a sail -shaped ( like a spinnaker ) bent slightly conical beer mug, advertised as the "White Beer Glass for the north ." In addition, various forms of abdominal or engravings are developed. Another designer glass is a double-walled beer glass with air-filled space; it is to keep the beer cold longer. A sloping glass that is only when one puts the phone and drinking beer can not make calls, corresponds to the zeitgeist.

• Basic forms

Bright in Willi cup

Wheat beer glass

Kölsch bar

Boots glass

Berlin - White - shell

Biertulpe

Glass Jar

Beer ball

Stösschen

Tankard

Eyes can with Budweiser

Beer mug with stripe pattern

Guinness in pint

Coachman glass ( Kwak )

Oktagones cooling glass ( Hoegaarden )

Beer Dimensions

They have practical significance in the restaurant business, in glass manufacturing and in the various forms of retailing, as in multi -pack or six carriers. The beer Dimensions gastronomic used to go partly due to regional differences in measuring and government regulations. Schank vessels used in commercial dispensing shall be provided with a filling mark, the manufacturer must conformity with the relevant directives, explain and prove, among others, the European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID). The related expense will reduce the available capacity serving measures that are regionally also matched to the particular type of beer or the local brewing industry. Typical packaging and bottles are about the standards DIN 6075-2, DIN 6198 and DIN 6199th

Depending on the area, different names for glass sizes have received partly from traditional units:

Germany

Austria

Switzerland

In principle Switzerland knows similar shapes for beer glasses such as Germany or other beer cultures. The names differ, in particular, a distinction is traditionally also the content. There are restaurants in principle lager beer or specialty beer ( Helles ), which is served in different glasses.

France, Belgium, Luxembourg

Belgian beer is highly species rich and, due to the part of the Vandervelde Law of 1919, which banned the sale of liquor in bars, also tend to be more alcohol than in Germany. In Belgium, custom glass shapes and dimensions for the different types of beer distributed, partly in shell form partially resemble the related extent, liqueur glasses and Konjakschwenkern.

UK, Ireland, USA

Others

• Carafe: student unit; 1,6 - 2,0 liters
• Schankmaß: old; 1.069 liters