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A Look Back at Beer Vessels
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A Look Back at Beer Vessels
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Michael Usry |
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It is well known that beer has been around mankind for a long while. The way we consumed beer developed as beer expanded, grew, and advanced. The earliest vessels humans used for drinking beer included earthenware, pottery, wood, and even sewn-together pieces of leather. The quality of the beer glass had small advancements as time passed on. During the bubonic plague beer steins were essential because of their closed top to keep flies from landing in the beer and getting them ill.
Today, the most important thing to influence modern beer glass production was the creation of glass. As beer glasses became increasingly popular, consumers could really see what they were consuming and demanded a lighter and more appealing hue as well as flavor. This led to the filtration of beers; drinkers no longer wanted the chunks that were found in the earlier beers of the breweries. With this new, more aesthetically pleasing wave of beer glasses, it seemed like beer steins were on the way out.
The development of glassware thrived and created a number of glasses for all kinds of different beers. The most popular in the United States is the 16-ounce pint glass. It was originally developed to cover a Martini shaker, but bartenders soon discovered that as the brew poured out of the beer tap handles the pint glass was the ideal vessel because it let part of the carbonation to be released and let the smell of the brew to be more obvious. It is also liked for its storage capabilities; pint glasses may be put on top of each other and stored upright on shelves, rapidly making them a favorite with the bartenders who ended up having to clean out each individual glass.
On the advertising and marketing front some exceptional and groundbreaking products were developed by breweries to try and drive consumers towards their beers. Early breweries were often not allowed to give out beer or other promotionals to their customers, but discovered that giving away beer glasses was a great way to reward customers and also to advertise for themselves. This led to the manufacturers creating beer glasses that were works of art unto themselves. Gold or silver embossing on either side of the glass was not uncommon for these first flashy and pricey glasses. Gradually, artisans for the breweries started doing intricate carvings on either side of the beer glasses or steins and even developed a method of cooking enamel paint onto the beer glasses. These enameled glasses are still some of the most unique beer souvenirs, even though they were manufactured more recently than the others. Today fervent collectors all over the planet continue to collect these signs and memorabilia that are often worth thousands. Have you been up in the top of Granddad's old dresser lately?
About the Author:
Michael Usry is the author of the online instructional articles "Beauty and Health in Plain English" and a top affiliate of skin care one of the premier women's health websites.
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