What holds your drink ?

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thursday Oct 12, 2006 11:29 am

My beer is firstly held by my hand, and then my stomach.

derfly · Post by **derfly** » Friday Oct 13, 2006 1:44 pm

My usual is a German steinkrug with pewter lid and a 0.5l nominal volume although with ample "head" room. This means that with careful pouring and a few judicial sips while doing so, I can get pretty much a whole longneck of HB in minus the sediment.

Just perfect!

Chunk · Post by **Chunk** » Tuesday Oct 17, 2006 11:41 am

I have three Coopers 285ml glasses (had four but broke one on weekend

) Good when drinking stubbies. All came from bottleshop promos, 2x425ml Black Rock glasses my mate gave to me when I started brewing and 1 Frosted glass beer mug I'm guessing about 500ml. Great when drinking longnecks.

chris. · Post by **chris.** » Tuesday Oct 17, 2006 9:23 pm

Nonic Pints for everyday use.
I also have a couple of Tulips & Snifters (inlcuding 1 600ml monster

) which I use for special beers.

Noodles · Post by **Noodles** » Monday Oct 30, 2006 3:54 pm

I drink from 400ml glasses, which are fine for the Pet bottles and Coopers long necks, but they don't quite hold 2 glasses of the 800ml twist tops.

I like a cold fresh glass every beer and usually rotate through the freezer.

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Friday Nov 03, 2006 5:34 am

I bought some pilsner glasses last week. Ive washed them in detergent first to get rid of any nastys, then rinsed several times, wiped dry then rinsed several times again with very hot water, then cooled and put in freezer or cupboard. Ive used them all now for beer and rinsed and wiped and rinsewd and left to dry and any other cleaning method you can think of, and they still will NOT hold a head of beer. Be it home brew or commercial brew. Was drinking LCPA last night and no head.

How do you guys wash your glasses ?

morgs · Post by **morgs** » Friday Nov 03, 2006 8:34 am

Wash em in the dishwasher or for extra efort wash em in your bottle wash. That pink stuff is good for it. I have no probs with my glasses after being in the dishwasher. Then into freezer.

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Friday Nov 03, 2006 10:18 am

Don't use detergent. Use Napisan, diswasher detergent, or alkaline salts as these are not fat-based. It's the fat-based detergents that kill the head.

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Friday Nov 03, 2006 12:13 pm

Ok, when I said detergent, I meant to say bottle wash detergent, then rinsed copiously. And since their initial wash have only been rinsed in hot water, not a drop of detergent has gone near them.

They're going for a trip through the dishwasher tonight. See if that improves the head retention.

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Friday Nov 03, 2006 5:00 pm

You can safely use a detergent of any kind if you rinse and steralise properly after, i use dishwashing detergent ocasionaly and then steralise and my glasses are fine

blandy · Post by **blandy** » Saturday Nov 04, 2006 7:11 am

Are we all getting worried about STERILISING our glasses? I mean, of copurse it helps to clean the muck off, but they don't exacly have to be germ free. What's the benefit of sterilising a glass, then putting it in a cupboard or fridge for a few hours to gather germs?

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Saturday Nov 04, 2006 11:16 am

Ive found it to be a big benefit if i have used a glass and only rinsed it for a few weeks it starts to lose head but after steralising i can use for another few weeks with perfect head, Could be just a coincidence but i doubt it

blandy · Post by **blandy** » Saturday Nov 04, 2006 1:27 pm

Ok, fair enough. Realistically though, there's not much dishwashing powder in a dishwasher won't kill (on a bacterial level anyway)

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Saturday Nov 04, 2006 4:13 pm

For those that are lucky enough to own one

BenH · Post by **BenH** » Sunday Nov 05, 2006 3:50 pm

My pride and joy and regular drinking vessel is a heavy ceramic 500cl job that I bought from Budapest. Its covered in hand painted images of various bits of budapest and has a woman on one side (holding a beer) and a man on the other (holding a......beer! Revolutionary!). Keeps everything cold and looks bloody gaudy at the same time - so tacky its good. I also use coopers pot glasses or a couple of grolsch 250mL glasses I bought from an op shop a while back if there are guests around.

The Proud Anselmo · Sunday Nov 05, 2006 7:41 pm

I have one of those heavy ceramic handpainted mugs and mine's also from Budapest. But mine doesn't have any beer on in. And no beer in it anymore since its incredably hard to wash and keeps an off smell and worse yet when I do wash it cracks appear

so much for that.

BenH · Post by **BenH** » Sunday Nov 05, 2006 8:18 pm

....I guess the quality control officer at the beer stein factory in Budapest was off crook that day then Proud Anselmo?

The Proud Anselmo · Sunday Nov 05, 2006 8:26 pm

He had probably been busy testing the steins the night before.

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Thursday Nov 09, 2006 2:49 pm

Ive been putting the glasses in the dishwasher, they certainly come out clean.

BUT. . . . If the glass isnt freezing cold, I cant get the beer to head very well at all. And even if I do use a cold glass, it doesnt hold a head for very long at all. This is compared to my pewter mug, which holds a great head and keeps the beer cold longer.

I can hear people asking, why the f#@& dont I just use the mug then ?
I want to have glasses that will work, for guests to drink my brews. If I ever get any worth showing off.

These glasses are 300ml pilsner style glasses, or as my brother put it, flashy pub glasses.

Brad74 · Post by **Brad74** » Saturday Nov 11, 2006 10:49 pm

I have been using anything that would hold beer for a while, found a bar accessory shop at a shopping centre in werribee and picked up a couple of 425ml headmaster glasses. When I got home I noticed that the bottom was course. Looked em up on the web to and found out the bottoms are specifically treated this way to retain the head.

not sure if posting websites is ok on this forum but here is the site for them.

http://www.crowncommercial.com.au/conte ... aster.aspx

Just to let you know I have a bad history of pouring beers, i'm definetly not the best going around. I end up with a lot of beer cordial (no head) or completly the opposite. so after I got them thought I would do a little homework to see the best way to pour from a bottle. I did find this this.

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 513AAqqleW

So I am not sure if it the new glasses or the way I pour or both but this combination is working for me, never had the head of the beer so good and last as long as it does.

cost of glass $3.99
cost of looking up the internet for a way to pour beer = $20 (1hr)
being able to pour a better beer and retaining the head = Priceless

PS. most of you probably know about these glasses as I just saw them mentioned in another post