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Topography and glassware

Combining data from the United States Geological Survey and 3D printing.  You can add Mt. Hood to the bottom of your beer glass.

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Now what landmark would be perfect for the City of Angels.  Walt Disney Concert Hall? Randy’s Donuts?

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Gift Packs

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We all have little taster glasses from that cool festival from 2012 or the shaker pint from that tap-takeover but what we sometimes don’t have is the appropriate glassware to best enjoy a beer.  Belgian beers especially benefit from the right glass, and you can now get them for Kwak. Tripel Karmeliet and La Trappe.  If you have beer birthdays to buy for these would be great.  Plus they have beer in there too!untitled

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Glass is 1/2 Full

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There is proper glassware and then there is art.  Or maybe you are a big fan of sharing.  Either way, this two halves make a whole glass  from The Fowndry is intriguing.  Though I do worry about it tipping over.

This would have an excellent use in craft beer photography though.

 

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Ring in the Year with…

…the right glassware.

Beer afficianados, even the ones not into breweriana and collecting end up with pint glasses and tasting glasses and many other branded glasses but I sometimes wish that I had a complete set of craft beer glassware at the ready for every occasion.

And as much as I love promoting local and favorite breweries via their logo on a shaker pint, I do wish that I could have a set that really shows off the beer in color and aroma.

Something like this…..

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…from the Red Envelope website and made in Bavaria by Spiegalau.

    • stemmed pilsner glass has 15 1/2 oz. capacity and is designed with an open mouth for intense flavor release – ideal for stouts, Belgian style ales and pilsners

FOR MY Belgian Strong Monkish ale, Anomaly

    • grand pilsner glass has 15 oz. capacity and a slim elegant shape to channel dry hop aromas – ideal for light golden color pilsners such as German or Bohemian styles

FOR MY light and big hopped Lagunitas Sucks

    • wheat beer glass with 24 2/3 oz. capacity and a tall wide shape that allows for fluffy head – ideal for German wheat beer, Belgian whites and wheat ales

FOR MY Lomaland Saison from Modern Times

    • lager beer glass with 19 3/4 oz. capacity and classic lager shape – ideal for powerful IPAs, pale lagers and English strong ales

FOR MY  Fresh Hop (and Salmon Safe) IPA from New Belgium

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1/2 and 1/2 version 2.0

dualglass Pretentious Beer Glass Company which you can find over on the Etsy site has created a Dual Beer Glass, an idiot proof way to pour a ‘half and half’. I certainly don’t do it with either flair or grace.

But this tongue-in-cheek named glassware outfit also does quite a few other playful glasses. One specifically for hops and one designed for maltier offerings and most intriguing to me, an aroma glass. All look really cool and different from the norm.

I have a LOT of branded glassware but that unmarked aroma glass might come in handy.

 

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It is beyond not cool

I have been a victim of the frosted glass on numerous occasions. Most recently at California Pizza Kitchen that tried to ruin Eagle Rock’s XPA, Revolution by putting it into an ice cold glass.

Usually, I just let the glass warm and/or put my hands on the glass and passively-aggressively let the waitress see that something is wrong. But from now on, I will just send it back and teach a lesson.

Now watch the video and have your facts ready for the next time you get handed an ice glass….

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Put Your IPA into …..


Seems like the dynamic duo of Grossman and Calagione have more on their minds than just Life and Limb. They also want to build a better glass and just for IPA’s. They took time to taste Stone’s IPA as well as their own offerings in different glasses from the famed Riedel people. Sounded like a fun way to spend two hours.

Check out the story from The Philly Beer Scene HERE! Then look forward to a better way to celebrate the hop.