tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post5134190708788721877..comments2023-09-15T08:14:07.431-07:00Comments on Taking the beard out of beer!: New LookMelissa Colehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13701889299756506857noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-82389427267094254382009-05-12T09:15:00.000-07:002009-05-12T09:15:00.000-07:00@Sid, your weekends are your own mate!@Sid, your weekends are your own mate!Melissa Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701889299756506857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-66979720741638603042009-05-12T09:14:00.000-07:002009-05-12T09:14:00.000-07:00I'd like to see more places that sell strong beers...I'd like to see more places that sell strong beers do so in thirds so that you can really enjoy the process and not always watch yourself for wobbliness!Melissa Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701889299756506857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-75803440017979241992009-05-12T08:56:00.000-07:002009-05-12T08:56:00.000-07:00I love the practice of a different glass for each ...I love the practice of a different glass for each beer but so many pubs in the UK don't bother.<br /><br />I feel a good first step would be changing the law that requires draft beer to be sold in Pints/Half pints. Those that want their beer in that size could continue to buy it, but for more boutique beers a 250ml or 300ml serve would be better.<br /><br />My favourite pub stocks about 100 European beers in the bottle, each served in it's special glass. They have a range of beers on tap, but they have to be served in pints and that often does not work as well.Tancredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707893875649104150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-8342922192791698312009-05-09T09:13:00.000-07:002009-05-09T09:13:00.000-07:00Hey Kristy, you seem to pick and choose - any thou...Hey Kristy, you seem to pick and choose - any thoughts on the questions I left on the original thread..?<br /><br />-- Boggle (I might be a woman)Sid Bogglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-56936679452608577712009-05-09T01:25:00.000-07:002009-05-09T01:25:00.000-07:00Hi – Kristy from BitterSweet here. Your issue wit...Hi – Kristy from BitterSweet here. Your issue with beer glasswear is something we agree with wholeheartedly. This is one of the initiatives we’re working on with BitterSweet - so keep watching...Kristy_BitterSweet Partnershiphttp://www.bittersweetpartnership.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-14101793386499489162009-05-08T02:34:00.000-07:002009-05-08T02:34:00.000-07:00I wrote about this subject some time ago here: htt...I wrote about this subject some time ago here: http://tinyurl.com/q3fnsy.<br /><br />I dislike nonics.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-91463605743729767082009-05-07T11:04:00.000-07:002009-05-07T11:04:00.000-07:00Hey Anonymous, shame you didn't leave your name, y...Hey Anonymous, shame you didn't leave your name, your comment about telling people who don't give a monkey's made me laugh, thanks for the thoughts.Melissa Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701889299756506857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-24448984046971485612009-05-07T11:00:00.000-07:002009-05-07T11:00:00.000-07:00I prefer standard pint glasses with nothing on the...I prefer standard pint glasses with nothing on them, as the advertising looks cheap, and sometimes I'm sad enough to stare at my beer sometimes admiring it and telling people who don't give a monkeys how good it looks!<br /><br />Fullers have taken to the stemmed thing with ESB stemmed glasses and where they do london porter there is a taller stemmed glass. I enjoy swishing my beer around using the stem!!<br /><br />I also often find myself in non pub environments such as theatre bars etc and that's where I would love to have more interesting bottled beers in decent glasses. Don't know why exactly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-46881576574451790072009-05-07T06:12:00.000-07:002009-05-07T06:12:00.000-07:00Good stuff, all very interesting and @John Q - tha...Good stuff, all very interesting and @John Q - thanks very much, very kindMelissa Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701889299756506857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-63084976473743260982009-05-07T06:06:00.000-07:002009-05-07T06:06:00.000-07:00If the landlord takes the time and care to serve t...If the landlord takes the time and care to serve the beer in the right glass it looks and feels special. However, I hate places where you're likely to get a pint of ale in the wrong glass - it's cheap, it's lazy and it looks it. And it usually reflects the publican's attitude towards his cellar.Fatmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-57068135536697694212009-05-07T05:36:00.000-07:002009-05-07T05:36:00.000-07:00A view from behind the bar: I primarily serve real...A view from behind the bar: I primarily serve real ales. I have a regular brewery who provide most of my guests through swaps. I keep 10-12 ales on at all times (subject to supply!) of which 3-6 will be guests. I serve on average between one and three hundred different ales a year, including festivals, from anything up to a hundred different breweries.<br /><br />I also serve an unusual, British-brewed lager instead of Stella and Fosters. Being a Moravian-style lager, its manufacturer does do branded glasses. I lose on average two dozen a month, of which most to theft: precisely because so many people have never heard of it.<br /><br />I serve as many of my imports in interesting glassware as I can: sometimes correctly branded, often not but of the right <EM>type</EM>. But to scale that for my main ale business would be spectacularly cost-ineffective; well beyond the penny a pint level.<br /><br />In other news: this blog rocks, and thank you for writing it.John Q. Publicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11333595645345108989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-66406595059165783172009-05-07T03:48:00.000-07:002009-05-07T03:48:00.000-07:00Ban nonics ? Why then ? Down here between them mou...Ban nonics ? Why then ? Down here between them mountains, they look quite exotic... ;o)<br /><br />Joke aside, I like my beer to be served in an appropriate glass, yet I don't really buy the Belgian "a glass for each beer" marketing thing, which is a bit of a scam if you scratch below the surface a bit. Most of them are cumbersome, if not downright ugly, and they usually aren't really tough enough for bar use. And they often owe their existence not to a genuine concern for taste, but to an established use in beer branding in Belgium.<br /><br />For tastings, I nowadays use an Italian TeKu stemmed glass, which not only is an excellent tasting glass, looks really good (I find the stem a bit long, but that's personal), and is amazingly tough for such a thin glass. <br />(q.v. http://www.rastal.it/cat.php?prodid=35&opt=2) <br />IMHO the TeKu (fathomed by Teo Musso from Baladin and transalpine beer legend Kuaska aka Lorenzo Dabove)is a possible hint at the way forward : a generic, yet stylish, practical, pretty much all-purpose tasting glass for beer. <br /><br />Yet the shape in itself is only part of the issue. A good designer can come up with something appealing in terms of print even with a standard conical glass. <br />But it's a notorious thing that beer marketers all to often lack imagination, or are at least too lazy to think outside the box when it comes to such trivial things as glassware.Laurent Moussonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-43648085142860131802009-05-07T01:24:00.000-07:002009-05-07T01:24:00.000-07:00Much better Melissa, looks good.
Cheers
P.S. Not...Much better Melissa, looks good.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />P.S. Nothing wrong with shameless publicity!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-42884623258326073462009-05-06T12:09:00.000-07:002009-05-06T12:09:00.000-07:00Okay, well Dave you've sealed it, that's been chan...Okay, well Dave you've sealed it, that's been changed already! ALthough I have gone for a small update on the old design - a little more room for the writing and a little less room for the shameless publicity shot! : )Melissa Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701889299756506857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7870641958407671573.post-45952499095115036532009-05-06T11:49:00.000-07:002009-05-06T11:49:00.000-07:00Change back please! This feels too much like Stenc...Change back please! This feels too much like Stench's beer blog - dodgy navigation too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com