| It is commonly known that beer has been with | | | | and let the smell be more pronounced. It is also |
| mankind for a long while. The way we consumed | | | | favored for its storage capabilities; pint glasses can |
| beer changed as beer expanded, grew, and | | | | be placed on top of each other and stored upright on |
| improved. The earliest vessels man used for drinking | | | | shelves, quickly making them popular with the |
| beer included earthenware, pottery, carved out | | | | bartenders who ended up having to wash out each |
| wood, and even sewn-together pieces of leather. | | | | individual glass. |
| The quality of the beer glass saw small | | | | An attempt to get customers to buy their kind of |
| advancements as time passed on. During the bubonic | | | | beer by earlier breweries led to some exceptional and |
| plague beer steins were popular because of their | | | | groundbreaking moves on the marketing and |
| enclosed top to prevent bugs from landing in the | | | | advertising front. Giving away glasses to people was |
| beer and getting them ill. | | | | one way that breweries discovered to promote their |
| The development of glass might have been the most | | | | products even with it illegal. This led to the breweries |
| important part of the way beer glasses are made | | | | developing beer glasses that were works of art unto |
| today. As beer glasses became increasingly popular, | | | | themselves. Gold or silver embossing on either side of |
| customers could really see what they were | | | | the glass was not uncommon for these first ornate |
| consuming and wanted a lighter and better color and | | | | and pricey glasses. Gradually, artists for the breweries |
| flavor. This led to the filtration of beers; people no | | | | began doing intricate etchings on either side of the |
| longer wanted the coarse chunks that were found in | | | | beer glasses or steins and even created a method of |
| the earlier beers of the breweries. With this new, | | | | firing enamel paint onto the glasses. Even though |
| more aesthetically pleasing era of beer glasses, it | | | | they were manufactured more recently than many |
| seemed like beer steins were on the way out. | | | | other collectibles, these painted glasses remain some |
| The development of beer glasses continued and | | | | of the most valuable and rare today. Nowadays, |
| produced a number of glasses for all types of | | | | some of the beer memorabilia and signs are worth |
| different beers. The 16-ounce pint glass is the most | | | | thousands of dollars and sought out worldwide by |
| popular glass in the U.S.. It was soon discovered that | | | | eager collectors. Have you looked up in the top of |
| the design let a part of the carbonation to be freed | | | | Grandpa's dresser in a while? |
