| German Beer Glasses: | | | | the taste of German beer. This successively placed a |
| German beers tend to get their own special type of | | | | higher economic value and importance on the beer |
| drinking glass, and the beer glasses are configured to | | | | stein and made having your own unique German stein |
| enhance the taste of the beer. Hefeweizen, | | | | a thing of desire. In regards to the German beer |
| Kristallweizen and Dunkles are served in glasses that | | | | mugs, a mug is essentially a stein, only without the lid |
| are tall and elegant, with a narrow base broadening | | | | and thumb lift. Many people prefer drinking out of |
| toward the top before tapering slightly again. There is | | | | mugs, instead of bottles and cans, because a mug |
| often a spiralling effect ascending from the bottom | | | | helps the beer keep its fresh flavor and you can pour |
| of the glass. Kölsch is commonly served up in a | | | | a good head into a mug. |
| simple, tall, straight, cylindrical 200ml glass | | | | German Beer Boot: |
| ("Kölsch-Stange"). Altbier is usually served in a | | | | The tradition of imbibing a boot of beer from a |
| straight, cylindrical 200ml glass, (or "Becher") shorter | | | | boot-shaped glass is most common in German |
| and broader than a Kölsch glass. Berliner Weisse | | | | themed bars, colleges, beer gardens, and the like. As |
| tends to come in a rounded chalice with a stem like a | | | | with pints and additional vessels, Insignias, logos, and |
| champagne saucer, which is quite pertinent, as it is | | | | markings of varied composition are often inscribed or |
| often known as the champagne of beer. It is also | | | | fashioned on the German beer boot. Beer boots may |
| occasionally served in a stout, straight-edged tumbler. | | | | be passed among drinkers as a boozing challenge, |
| Berliners occasionally drink it through a straw, but | | | | generally owing to the difficulty affiliated with drinking |
| beer connoisseurs tend to frown upon this, as it | | | | a greater than average amount of beer and the |
| prevents a full admiration of the fragrance of the | | | | added challenge of the boot's anatomy. A common |
| beer. Pils is often served in a "Pokal" -- akin to an | | | | variant of this challenge is to have multiple players |
| elegant, extended champagne flute. | | | | taking turns. The person who took the penultimate |
| German Steins: | | | | drink loses. Thus the challenge is to either finish the |
| German Steins were originally brought about to battle | | | | contents of the German beer boot or leave a |
| health problems that set off the Bubonic Plague. Rigid | | | | challenging quantity to the next participant to try and |
| laws imposing sanitation on the ingredients, transport, | | | | finish. |
| and caliber of beer resulted in a vast improvement in | | | | |
