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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:41 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:12 am
A snifter?
...is that an American addition?
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:32 am
Invictus_88 A snifter?
...is that an American addition?
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:14 am
I have always thought of it as a brandy snifter...
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:57 am
Maybe it's a regional thing, it's never been anything but a 'brandy glass' to me.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:55 pm
Invictus_88 Maybe it's a regional thing, it's never been anything but a 'brandy glass' to me.
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:25 pm
Angilwingz Invictus_88 Maybe it's a regional thing, it's never been anything but a 'brandy glass' to me.
Damn them all.
stare
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:24 pm
Invictus_88 Angilwingz Invictus_88 Maybe it's a regional thing, it's never been anything but a 'brandy glass' to me.
Damn them all.
stare
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:14 pm
Angilwingz Invictus_88 Angilwingz Invictus_88 Maybe it's a regional thing, it's never been anything but a 'brandy glass' to me.
Damn them all.
stare
wink
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:25 pm
Invictus_88 Angilwingz Invictus_88 Angilwingz Invictus_88 Maybe it's a regional thing, it's never been anything but a 'brandy glass' to me.
Damn them all.
stare
wink
I believe that the current buzz-word for this occasion would be anti-social.
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:08 pm
I'd argue back, but you may actually be right.
A trip for drink isn't really social, irrespective of manners.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:24 am
I have always wondered why there are so many specific types of glasses for different drinks. Does it have a purpose or is it just in the history of the glass?
(i.e. I have heard that brandy snifters are shaped that way so that the hand will warm the drink and cause the "alcoholic odors" to rise. The champagne glass is elongated so that people can actually watch the fizz as the fizz scrubs on the inner surface.)
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:25 am
I knbow the purpose of the shape of a whiskey tasting glass, but am uneducated as to the morphology of the others.
*looks to Invi*
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:35 am
Handled glasses are more casual in origin, it spoils the elegange and form of a glass whilst making it less difficult to drop and break. They are from a largely working class social background.
Champagne glasses are not so much for you to admire the bubbles, but it is narrow so that the bubbles don't ascape to rapidly. The drink will stay bubbly for longer in such a narrow glass and it also allows you to examine the colour of the drink in a way that you couldn't with a cut-crystal glass.
Brandy glasses are blown very thin, thinner than any other glass that I know of. It means that the palm of the hand against the bottom of the bowl will warm the drink and better allow the full spectrum of flavours to make themselves known to the nose. The stem it pretty short too, it's because you hold it differently to wine and champagne glasses, a longer stem would be superfluous and unstable.
Pretentious bars will often give you an oversized glass, more like a fish-bowl. That'll be too big, the smell (and thus the flavour) will be diluted to the point where you can't really examine it. feel free to tell them to find you a smaller glass, they'll usually have one. Besides, if you're paying a lot for a drink (the mark-up on a spirit is still pretty high) you are perfectly able to demand a glass from which you can taste it to full advantage.
Whisk(e)y glasses I'm not so sure about. If they're a normal whisky or served with soda or water then it seems to be served in a cut glass tumbler-type glass. These have thinker walls, which I suppose serve to keep the drink cool.
Though finer whiskies are often drunk in a brandy glass for the same reason as brandy is.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:28 pm
Why does champagne need to stay bubbly...is like how soda's should have its fizz?
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Shot Glass
