Jan 2012 There’s something about pint beer glasses that this country (thank God) will never be able to do without. Travel abroad and you’ll find your schooner, your stein, even your tulip glass. All very swanky and all very exotic – but there’s no place like home, and there’s nothing that says home quiet so well as a decent, properly measured beer glass. The English pint is the English pint – and, though it and its enjoyment may have been corrupted by legions of gaseous lagers, it’s experienced such a renaissance in recent years that English pint beer glasses are not only a fixture of every decent pub, but of a lot of UK homes as well.

We’re not talking boring old 48 in a box pub pint glasses, either. These are real pint beer glasses for sale: good quality, thick glass, handled or straight as preference dictates. And no silly widget etchings in the bottom, either, unless they’re for specifically designated quality lagers. You know the sort – Peroni and co, a little Lowenbrau maybe: the good stuff, that deserves a proper continental style widget glass to make it work. No – apart from these special exceptions, we’re talking about English pint beer glasses, meant to hold a pint, exactly, of good proper beer.

At one time, real ale looked like it had died, replaced in homes around the land by the kind of beer that comes with an exploding bit of plastic in the tin and calls itself cream flow. As though beer were supposed to be creamy. Cream is what you put on apple pie. Beer is warm, flat and gloriously nutty – and it’s best enjoyed, really should only be enjoyed, from a proper pint beer glass. None of this faffing around with cans and bottles, where the taste of tin and lid detract from the experience of the drink itself: no, real beer calls for real glasses, and that means 1 pint beer glasses whose only purpose is to hold the liquid and let the air get at the malts. These days, a person can tell the drinking preferences of a household in seconds just by looking in the glass cupboard – one or two handles, a couple of proper straights (not with those daft little bellies at the top, but actually straight glasses), and you know you’re in for a nice pint. Served in a proper English pint beer glass.

It sounds snobbish – it is snobbish. But then nothing of any great quality ever came from being lackadaisical about things. If something’s worth drinking, as my old grandfather used to say, it’s worth drinking from the right glass. I’ll raise one to that.

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