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Athome I drink most of my beer in a 12oz shaker glass. In the pub I like the pintversion of the same shape. It’s the straight edges which I like about it. It’suncomplicated. At home I also alternate between two other shapes – a pint, a snifterand a flute. Those four glasses cover every beer I could possibly want todrink. One glass I never use at home is the dimpled mug.
Asreported in this year’s Cask Report (http://www.caskreport.co.uk/), there’s a retro-chic attached to real aleright now and the dimpled mug is a part of that (every other picture on theReport also shows a pint in a mug). Visually I agree that they look good (aslong as there’s still a good head on it – nothing looks worse that a pintpulled square to the top of the glass with no head) but as something to drinkout of I’m less convinced: I find them too big to wrap my hand aroundcomfortably, the handle makes me clumsy (especially after a few) and they arehardly great for swirling and sniffing, are they?
Thedimpled mug stands apart from the other glasses. Only real ale is ever pouredinto the mug, so it says that this drink is different to your mate’s lager. Butdoes it make them cool or does it just make you stand out and look like an oldman? And given a choice in a pub, would you go for the straight up pint glassor the dimpled mug?
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Athome I drink most of my beer in a 12oz shaker glass. In the pub I like the pintversion of the same shape. It’s the straight edges which I like about it. It’suncomplicated. At home I also alternate between two other shapes – a pint, a snifterand a flute. Those four glasses cover every beer I could possibly want todrink. One glass I never use at home is the dimpled mug.
Asreported in this year’s Cask Report (http://www.caskreport.co.uk/), there’s a retro-chic attached to real aleright now and the dimpled mug is a part of that (every other picture on theReport also shows a pint in a mug). Visually I agree that they look good (aslong as there’s still a good head on it – nothing looks worse that a pintpulled square to the top of the glass with no head) but as something to drinkout of I’m less convinced: I find them too big to wrap my hand aroundcomfortably, the handle makes me clumsy (especially after a few) and they arehardly great for swirling and sniffing, are they?
Thedimpled mug stands apart from the other glasses. Only real ale is ever pouredinto the mug, so it says that this drink is different to your mate’s lager. Butdoes it make them cool or does it just make you stand out and look like an oldman? And given a choice in a pub, would you go for the straight up pint glassor the dimpled mug?
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