5 days ago
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Mug punter
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All you need now is a good smoke to go with it - eh?
ReplyDeletePlenty of dimpled mugs in Ashton u lyne,usually well blessed with
ReplyDeletelipstick.
Hey up u wer that mentioning the
forbidden topic,schhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhh,u no wat S**k**g,
Y'u'll get the CAMRA sisterhood
throwing their baguettes up
Make mine a pint of Odins Tears
Still Waiting
"Do they, I wonder, subtly change the character of the beer by exposing a greater surface area of head to the atmosphere?"
ReplyDeleteFor feck sake, you can't be serious mate??!!
In Europe, these are routinely given out in quite a few bars, strangely enough.
ReplyDeleteNot my pint glass of choice, but it's interesting that there is the old person connotation in the UK but not on the continent.
Handled pots always have a "rugby club" image to me - they remind me of Godfrey Smith, the former Sunday Times columnist (and a self-declared rugger man).
ReplyDeleteI think it's the glass of default in the Betjeman Arms at St Pancras station.
ReplyDeleteI always smile at these, remembering the line Michael Caine delivers in 'Get Carter'. He walks into a pub in Newcastle and orders a beer. Seeing the barman about to put in into a pot, he snaps his fingers impatiently and orders, "In a thin glass!"
So, they died out because of Michael Caine. Not a lot of people know that...
I've had BrewDog Trashy Blonde in pubs on two occasions and both times it was served in a dimpled and handled glass. Not sure if it's at the brewer's request or just that the two pubs like those glasses, though everything else I've had in both of the establishments has been in a conical glass.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're getting on a bot, Mudgie, and they figured you were an old timer. So they gave you your old mans beer in an old mans glass. Time moves in one direction, accept it, old fella.
ReplyDeleteAt the pub I used to work in we used them by default for our real ales - though there were only ever 20 kept behind the bar (you could stand 40-50 people along the bar at any one time) and we had up to six ales on as well. It seemed however that only a few of us preferred them to drink from (they kept the ale cooler for longer) and most people asked for straight glasses.
ReplyDeleteSince then it only seems to be country pubs that have them to use anymore - and I'm never drinking when I visit them as I have to drive home!
Still at least I've got my pewter jug at home for drinking from.
@MArkRAR: doesn't sound punk rock enough for BrewDog. Or, maybe it is. Ironically.
ReplyDeleteI don't know who I am any more...
Never liked beer in handles, definitely tastes watery in comparison to a classic straight glass. Some slightly upmarket M&B pubs in Birmingham seem to use only handles, making Pedigree taste very dull.
ReplyDeleteDimples do lovely things to the colours of an amber beer, I always believe, but I couldn't see the taste experience being any different. My father would only drink out of a thin glass, however: said he didn't like the sensation of thick glass against his lips.
ReplyDeleteThe Nicholson's chain in central London now offers dimpled mugs to "real ale" drinkers as some sort of marketing gimmick.
ReplyDeleteNever could stand the things myself, even when they were the default in many pubs 30 years ago. With a full pint in particular, the balance is wrong and when forced to use them I tend to grip the body of the glass instead, using the handle merely as a brace or support. For common or garden bitter give me a straight glass any day.