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Beer Steins and Glasses

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The fact that beer has been with mankind for a long while is well known. The way we consumed beer changed as beer expanded, changed, and advanced. Pottery, wood, stoneware, as well as sewn up bits of leather made up the earliest drinking vessels. The quality of the beer glass saw little advancements as time passed on. Early Europeans that lived during the era of the black plague saw the development of beer steins, which had an enclosed top on the steins to prevent bugs from getting in the beer and getting the person sick.

Today, the most important factor to influence modern beer glass making was the creation of glass. As drinkers actually started to be able to see what they were consuming from the glass they started to want a beer with more taste and a better hue. Consumers didn't want coarse chunks in their beer anymore so manufacturers began to filter their products. With this new, improved wave of beer glasses, it appeared beer steins were on the way out.

Glasses


Standard Beer Mug		Dimple Mug

Steins


German Stein		German Stein

The development of beer glasses thrived and created a variety of beer glasses for all kinds of various beers. The most demanded in America is the 16-ounce pint glass. It was originally used to fit a Martini shaker, but barkeeps soon discovered that as the brew flowed out of the beer tap handles the pint glass was the choice receptacle because it allowed for part of the carbonation to be released and let the smell of the beer to be more pronounced. The pint glass rapidly became popular with barkeeps who had to clean each glass by itself because it can be put on top of each other and put easily on shelves.

On the promotional and marketing front some exceptional and groundbreaking moves were made by early breweries to try and drive people towards their products. Handing out beer glasses to consumers was a way that breweries discovered to promote their beers even though it was illegal. This led to the manufacturers making beer glasses that were works of artistic merit unto themselves. Gold or silver embossing on both sides of the glass was the standard for these first opulent and expensive glasses. Eventually, artists for the breweries began doing intricate etchings on either side of the beer glasses or steins and even created a way of cooking enamel paint onto the glasses. These enameled glasses are still some of the most unique beer souvenirs, even though they were made later than the others. Today, many of the beer souvenirs and banners are worth thousands of dollars and sought out planetwide by eager collectors. Have you been up in the top of Grandpappy's old drawer in a while?

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