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I am fussy about the glass I drink from.In pubs I refuse to drink out of a pint nonic glass.Any other style is fine but not nonic.I have walked out of pubs even after they have poured my drink if they wont change it.When drinking at home I often use 3 or 4 different glass depending on the style of beer. I will only drink out of 3 cups indoors for tea or coffee so its probably a phobia.Are you fussy?
Much prefer a straight and it's always good to be asked if there is a genuine choice behind the bar which normally means straight or handle.Nonics seem much less common these days,although I have some at home in case folk pop round and I'm using the straights.
Sadly not been the case recently.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Whats the correct name for a straight glass.Quiz/Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard
Much prefer a straight and it's always good to be asked if there is a genuine choice behind the bar which normally means straight or handle.Nonics seem much less common these days,although I have some at home in case folk pop round and I'm using the straights.
Sadly not been the case recently.
I because I dislike them find a lot of pubs still use them.Went in a micropub recently but not been in for 2 months and the guy said you like a straight glasses right.Top barman
Had to Google that.Apparantly a Conical although in the US a Shaker.
I hope that's correct ?
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
yep a shaker .One point deducted for using google though. Not a conical according to Camra .
Harveys have moved to this shape of glass (sometimes called a tulip, but to me this implies a stem?).
Until February, I'd been doing occasional bar work in my local, having pulled pints in pubs in my village on and off for around 20-odd years. I'd like to say I'm not fussy, but I'd always like to serve the correct beer in the correct glass as well as serving in the customer's preferred vessel - so for ale drinkers that I hadn't served before, that included the 'straight or handle' question beforehand. Nothing worse than having to serve ale or indeed lager in a Guinness glass if it was a busy night.
When I'm on the other side of the bar, it's always nice to be offered a handle, but not massively fussed.
In addition, once met up with an ex-girlfriend in a pub outside Aylesbury that was on its last legs. She asked for a Cinzano and lemonade (or somesuch) which the barmaid poured into a half-pint glass. I asked if we could have a highball glass instead and was handed a large wine glass. That pub closed not long after, but recently re-opened after several years in the wilderness.
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
It seems to depend where you live. In the North (West) we call them Tall Hats. Never heard of Nonics. Is that a Southern word for a Dimple pot? (Edit- Just Googled it and found it's a Tall Hat with a lump at the top! I must be too young to have heard the word).
Lees Brewery tried a hybrid of a Tall Hat and a Dimple pot with ridges to put your fingers and thumb in. They were most unpopular and got called a Flower Pot.
Has anyone got a North/South translation dictionary for sale? (Not the Yorkshire version).
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We used to call straights "sleevers" if we didn't call 'em straights. I too had to google "nonics": they were what I thought they would be,though I'd not taken the word onboard. Further confusion was caused by the American usage "Shaker" to refer to "Tulips" (?). I always thought Shakers were an American Protestant Sect that designed kitchen furniture.It seems to depend where you live. In the North (West) we call them Tall Hats. Never heard of Nonics
Has anyone got a North/South translation dictionary for sale? (Not the Yorkshire version).
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