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18-06-2012, 08:32
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--BfmsxBJXqM/T9s2ZaEe10I/AAAAAAAADRg/ueGwHU7s2CQ/s1600/beer_classics.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--BfmsxBJXqM/T9s2ZaEe10I/AAAAAAAADRg/ueGwHU7s2CQ/s1600/beer_classics.jpg)One of the sessions I most enjoyed at The European Beer Bloggers Conference was that from Spiegelau (http://spiegelau.com/products/view/stemware_int/beer_classics/?no_cache=1), the German glass manufacturer, illustrating to those whose palates aren't entirely made of wood, that beer tastes and smells better out of a decent glass. Now these were particularly decent glasses, being as thin a a youthful beer blogger and unlike them, worth seven quid a pop. (Does that mean a youthful beer blogger is worth seven quid a pop or not? At least that I'd say. Maybe even a couple of quid more in most cases.) It was an instructive session, not least of all because it fitted in with my way of thinking. Life is so much better when someone who should be in the know confirms your prejudices, though on a serious note, I did feel there were definite differences, one to the other for the same beer. The big bonus was that we were allowed to keep the set.

But of course my undoubted common sense isn't shared by all. I know many who simply don't care, provided that the liquid inside meets with their approval, or who just can't tell the difference. And it is, on the face of it at least, a fair point. Many think my liking for, for instance, a delicate lager in a tall, thin walled glass, is just a pettifogging affectation, but to me it improves the beer no end. Does the glass you drink out make the beer taste better or worse? By that I don't mean the minor annoyances (irritating though they are) of getting your pint of bitter in a Bulmer's Cider glass and the like, but when you get a beer that you "know" should be in a better glass and you get it in, for example, a scratched old nonic, especially if you pay a few bob for said beer. In my view the standard of glasses in the average British pub is atrocious, though getting slightly better. Problem is of course that when you get some decent glasses in, along comes some light fingered oik and nicks them. Perhaps if they were more common, they wouldn't?

I wrote about this (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/time-to-pension-off-nonik.html) before, way back when. Have a look at it again and let me know what you think about the glass you drink from.

The Spiegelau glasses (pictured)are very fine and very fragile. They would be no use in a pub situation at all. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8629758183547510158-7465690308147716595?l=tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.c om


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