Show off your Beer Glasses

I know we have had a strategy where Distributors didn't get any of the gold foils until they sold quantities of IPA and White Rascal. Not sure if that is still a thing. I was in Lewisville TX visiting a friend around 2010 and the liquor store we found Avery in only had Reverend and Hog.

 

Ha, found this picture from when we were visiting Birrificio Italiano. I'm the guy on the left with the rust colored shirt on. 2nd from right is Agostino Arioli, one of the pioneers of craft brewing in Italy. You can see the Vudu glass in my right hand. Agostino invented the word Birrificio by combining the words Birra and Magnifico, it's pronounced like Birrifico not sure why the silent i? Being the first he named the brewery Birrificio Italiano. Not being selfish he has allowed other craft breweries in Italy to use this word, so it is common for another brewer to call his brewery Birrificio Milan, or Birrificio Bergamo, etc signifying a craft brewery. That's Adam Avery on the far right too.

 

Photo bomb time.
Have my Steins on a shelf and today it was time to clean the shelf.
Here's what's on the shelf, and what i collected over the years.
I visited most of the local marked ones .

 

This one belonged to my Grandmother's brother, it was confirmation gift, I think.

When this was given, the custom was you showed up at the pub with your own stein- I guess it was more "sanitary".

The saying on the front is roughly translated "if you can't afford wine, drink beer", lol.

 

So you lived in Germany near Bamberg correct Bcktales? It appears you've attended Oktoberfest a few times then. I've never been to Oktoberfest, I've only traveled there on vacation with my wife once, and she wasn't into making it all about beer, thought it still was a lot about beer.

I hope to get to go to Oktoberfest at some point if we can time business around that time.

 

I few co-workers have got to go to Oktoberfest and got the royal treatment, my time will come.

I've been to Regensburg once, we have a Krones canning line and the factory is there. We have a Krones/Steinecker brewhouse, Krones bought out Steinecker at some point, their main production is in Freising near Munich, right next to the Munich airport.

 

1991 was a pivotal year in my appreciation of craft beer. I'd already been homebrewing in Sioux City IA for 2 years but hadn't been to any of the new brewpubs I'd heard about. I visited my brother in Long Beach and went to San Luis Obispo for the California Festival of Beers, what an eye and taste bud opener. I then made it to my first Great American Beer Fest GABF later that year. I've managed to make it to almost every GABF since only missing a few years in the 90s. I have a glass from every year I've attended so around 23 GABF taster glasses.

My first brush with the GABF was a near miss, in 1988 I was living in Garden City KS, and I drove out to Denver for a Mopar car show in my trusty $300 74 Plymouth Duster slant 6. Next to the hotel was an Old Chicago restaurant that had a fairly large import beer selection for 1988, I had an EKU 28. The bartender asked if I went to the beer fest the night before, and I didn't know what he was talking about. Drove 5 hours for a Mopar show and could have capped it off with GABF if I'd only known.

 

Here is a Christmas gift from Krones with the scene of Regensburg with the Old Stone bridge and Cathedral.

 

My go to glass.


Need a refill.

 

Another gift from the Germans, collectible but not as cool as if I got it at Oktoberfest.

 

my favorites

 

Just got these cordial glasses from Bottle Logic Jam the Radar release

 

A couple of Weizen glasses, Faust from Miltenburg Germany an hour drive south of Frankfurt, and more common Paulaner. First the Paulaner story, we were in Germany to inspect fermenters made in Burgstadt by Ziemann. Burgstadt and Miltenburg are walking distance, if we weren't told it seemed like the same town. We happened to be in Burgstadt the night that Germany won the World Cup in 2014. Ziemann is the largest company in Burgstadt and it is popular to have outdoor sponsored "Public Viewing' parties with projection screens and much partying. We were sorta disappointed the Faust wasn't the beer at the viewing because that's the local brewery, but turns out since Ziemann was sponsoring and Paulaner had just placed a huge order of like 75 tanks Ziemann chose to feature them, since Faust is too small to have Ziemann tanks. The red token is a deposit for the glass, so if you keep the glass you keep the token.


Here is a picture of a Faust pilsener along with the required doily on the stem. I didn't keep that one.



Now the real fun, the Lach (laugh) parade. Fasching is the German Mardi Gras, or Carnivale, and again we happened to be in Miltenburg that day and got to see how the Germans really party. The floats were from the different small towns surrounding Miltenburg and it was simply a drunken rage that started at 10am and continued all day. People on floats were pouring schnapps and beer to the people in the crowd while the kids threw candy.

Since Mardi Gras is going on right now I'm going a little overboard on the pictures as I reminisce. We were probably the only Americans at this little event and had lots of laughs with the locals as we shared the absurdity of it all, yet it's an annual custom. The only rule seem to be, No glass bottles only plastic at the check point to enter the area. We stood out because we were the only ones not wearing costumes.

Here is the parade route the day before. We were standing right by the 4 door entrance in the middle during the parade.


Faust Brewery is 2 blocks behind me. A copper kettle is visible at the top of the stairs. Established 1654.


And here is the parade. See cowboy pouring shot to hand to crowd.


More schnapps bottles.

A Jeep


Mass hysteria

And poster advertising the event. This years laugh parade was last Saturday.

 

Trumer Pils, very thin glass, feels real delicate and special.

 

Sacrilege, an IPA in a Export Scotch Ale glass, but that's the glass my friend picked.

 

More inappropriate beer/glass matching.

That a ALHAMBRA Reserva 1925 from Spain, 6.4% extra lager, served in am Augustiner glass.

 

That’s F’n cool. I’ll play later when I can take some pics.

 

More inappropriateness.

Another Spanish Alhambra Reserva Roja, a 7.2% redlager. No labels.

 

Friend stopped over for a few, Delirium Tremens found here and Komes from Poland I got in Warsaw. First Van Halen was his request in vinyl.

 

Capped off the visit with some Genever from Holland with Firestone Walker and Frapin Cognac snifters, Listening to Johnny Winter Still Alive and Well, and first Captain Beyond with this.