Sunday 23 May 2010

The Continental way of drinking

Excellent letter in today’s Sunday Telegraph (not unfortunately on their website):

Just one more glass

SIR – I fully support the suggestion (Letters, May 16) that lager should be served in continental-size glasses.

The best beer I ever tasted was at the Andechs Monastery in Bavaria. It was served in one-litre glasses.

T.J.W. Leyland
Boston, Lincolnshire

9 comments:

  1. Let's not go for this foreign nonsense - bring back quart glasses!

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  2. Back in the 1980s, a drinker of my acquaintance used to have a special quart glass kept for him behind the bar of the long-defunct Castlewood in Stockport, which he used to drink Wilsons Mild.

    ISTR Wetherspoons experimenting with 30oz glasses, but that seems to have died a death.

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  3. Litre glasses are fine as long as they are served by one of Cooking Lager's German girls. ;-)

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  4. Talking about the "Taverns of the Undead",Wetherspoons,they have stopped customers taking drinks
    out on to their own outside
    smoking area because it overlooks
    a busy road.They're hoping the restrictions are applied to nearby
    competitors who dont have alternative areas like Wetherspoons rear yard areas.Dont believe me ?
    Nobody believed me about 21+ only
    restriction and no headwear after 7pm,last orders at 10.40 pm
    with 12pm advertised and quite a few more "kill the evening" ideas
    now that they open at 7am.

    Pity about those who work during the day.


    Cynicus Maximus

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  5. It's well worth the walk up through the woods, on a hot summer's day, to enjoy a litre or two of beer at Andechs monastery!

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  6. In the hot weather, a small bottle of ice cold lout stays cold. In hot weather the antipodian approach of small stubbies, ice cold, and a lot of them is nice.

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  7. Thanks Mudge. Lout appreciation is becoming a movement!

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  8. Simple but did make me rather chuckle.

    http://beerdemon.blogspot.com/

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