Glasses what's best

[warra48]

I use pint glasses bought from my local B.I.G. hospitality supplier. Only about $2.50 per glass. Surely that's not expensive? My favourite is the Oxford Pint glass, that's the one with the straight sides rather than the one with the spare tyre like bulge around the middle. I have a similar glass from waggastew etched with his personal insignia, which is also great to drink from.

In my stock I also have various German breweries hefeweizen glasses, and I occasionally use those. The Schöfferhofen is particularly nice, as it has a very fine lip.

 

[Phoney]

Ban...

Random op shops keep my glass collection expanding and I prefer my old school small glass tankard style glasses for consuming from..

Oh yeah and my brewdog and sierra Nevada IPA glasses if I'm feeling fancy

Random op shops glasses are great if you dont mind "Happy 50'th birthday Dad" or "Happy 21'st Wazza" written on the side of your glass.

I prefer to pay the same price for glasses without any writing on them from IKEA.

 

[hellbent]

whenever I buy some wine or the occasional slab of CPA's from any bottlo, I always hit up the staff for free stuff...thats how I got most of my various glasses (as well as numerous hats, t-shirts, esky bags, bottle openers etc). The staff usually dont care if you're buying the 'special deal' product or not, if you ask and they have something, they will often happily pass it over! My favourite one to drink from is actually a Coopers tulip shaped 375ml glass...but I often just use pint glasses as that means less trips out to the beer fridge on the back deck!

I bet you've got a long nose..........Airs free!!

 

[slash22000]

I was actually quite impressed by the Spielglau IPA glass. Everybody was on about how "it's just a gimmick" etc, and maybe it's purely psychological, but I swear drinking from one beer tastes better than it does from your bog standard pint glass.

 

[Batz]

Random op shops glasses are great if you dont mind "Happy 50'th birthday Dad" or "Happy 21'st Wazza" written on the side of your glass.
I prefer to pay the same price for glasses without any writing on them from IKEA.

You have to look often, and past the 50th Dad glasses

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/71158-gotta-love-vinnies/?hl=vinnies

I little bit of patience pays off.

Batz

 

[Camo6]

Batz, I make a point of stopping in any op shop I see nowadays due to that thread. Best I've scored is a few headmasters and a small boot glass. It's the bloody old bull and the young bull all over again. You can keep your patience, I've got ebay.

 

[yum beer]

The best glass is the one with the beer in it, no matter what shape or size.

I have a range of glasses, headmaster/headstart middies and schooners, brasserie, big wine type 'craft beer' glasses...which are a bit poncy but nice for belgians and the like, some pint mugs for pommie styles and a range of pilsener glasses in various sizes mostly for tasting/sampling with visitors..5 and 7 oz and 4 leffe glasses I scored for $10 bucks of facebook.

Best glass was a Vanuata Tusker brasserie style that had the swirls on the inside and a very rounded bottom, it kept a lovely head and refreshed the aroma every mouthfull as it sloshed around in the glass....2 of them ended up all over the brew cave floor about 2 weks apart....FIL has other 2 from the set, bastard won't let 'em go.

Love the Op Shop, got one next to work, I check it regularly.

 

[peas_and_corn]

Do you have a pic of these glasses?

 

[Batz]

Batz, I make a point of stopping in any op shop I see nowadays due to that thread. Best I've scored is a few headmasters and a small boot glass. It's the bloody old bull and the young bull all over again. You can keep your patience, I've got ebay.

I could be where you are trying ? Noosa op shops turn up some cool glasses. Gympie not so.

Just how it is around my area.

Batz

 

[DU99]

we have savers stores in melbourne and the one in brunswick normally has a good selection :icon_offtopic:

 

[MastersBrewery]

Today I went out and got some 95ml shooter glasses from one of our local Jeweler stores great size for tasting paddle. But now I have paddles to make, these little side projects never end

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

Almost want to retract my recommendation for spieglau tulip glasses. Simply placing onto dishwasher rack like I have ten plus times before and ome broke..... not happy. Will take back to david jones surely it should not break without any force under practically its own weight?

 

[pk.sax]

It's thin glass... Hence ikea the king. Break some every now and then and not worry since they are cheap to replace!

 

[yum beer]

Do you have a pic of these glasses?

who and what is this directed at?

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

It's thin glass... Hence ikea the king. Break some every now and then and not worry since they are cheap to replace!

:unsure:

I had Ikea glasses previously and the glass went cloudy from using in dishwasher. Are they all non-dishwasher safe or is it a mix at Ikea?

 

[Bridges]

Ikea lager glass and wheat beer glass both claimed to be dishwasher safe. Look OK but you do have to endure the pain of a visit to ikea to get them.
I don't think I need them, was curious to see them though.

 

[Batz]

:unsure:

I had Ikea glasses previously and the glass went cloudy from using in dishwasher. Are they all non-dishwasher safe or is it a mix at Ikea?

Just a soak in bleach will fix that.

 

[pk.sax]

Would remember that Batz. Never got the issue, just used the cheap tablets or in a pinch nappisan in the dishwasher. Most times though the beer glasses just get rinsed in hot water.
Those other glasses look good! Haven't been back in there for a while, wow - http://m.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/art/40242035/

Might have reason to go to one soon enough! Can't never furnish without some assistance from ikea ideas department. lol

 

[Goose]

Don't see any talk in here about the large double walled glasses you can get, prices seem to have come down big time from when the they were first introduced a few years back at around $30 a glass.

These are absolutely brilliant at keeping your beer cold (for you sippers out there ) because of the vacuum between the walls of the glass.

One problem is they are so damn fragile, you have to be really careful when washing, one hit on the tap while rinsing and its usually a gonner....

Here is one example, anybody else use them ?

 

[peas_and_corn]

who and what is this directed at?

You

 

[Gelding]

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Best glass was a Vanuata Tusker brasserie style that had the swirls on the inside and a very rounded bottom, it kept a lovely head and refreshed the aroma every mouthfull as it sloshed around in the glass

Wow, even on a high quality lager ?

Sounds yummy....

 

[yum beer]

Can not find a picture of the Tusker glass.

Have seen the 'swirl' glasses commercially but all seem to have a flat bottom and don't flare out the same, the Tusker glasses are the only example of that shape I have come across.

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

Just a soak in bleach will fix that.

It's an internal dulling of the glass though, not something on the surface so how can hypo change that?

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

Also took the Tulips back to David Jones today, they gave me another set of 2 and let me keep the one good one I had!!! Winning. Now to perhaps just hot wash/rinse by hand from now on maybe, or find a better place to put them in the dishwasher.

 

[lukiferj]

I drink mostly out of Spiegelau IPA glasses. We call them ****** glasses. ie beer glass ******s.

 

[NealK]

Definitely not the "Glass" that they include with your $40+ admission price tho Geelong beer festival!

 

[simplefisherman]

What happened to the op?
Anyway, op shops rock; current fave is a ' worlds greatest dad ' wheat beer glass... $2.50 can't go wrong

 

[New_guy]

425ml Headmaster at $1 each

 

[mje1980]

I bought 6 nonic a while back. Love them but I don't really need 6, so I did an experiment and made my own headmaster with a dremel. Jesus the head climbs out if you're not careful haha, and is cool to watch the beer swirling like mad. I don't use it often, as the nonics work fine as far as head retention, but i get it out for a laugh every so often.

I had a Belgian chalice that worked great, which I noticed was etched on the very bottom. If etching is good enough for the Belgians it's good enough for me.

 

[mje1980]

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