Hi! Well, it looks like Spring is finally here in Bradley. Take a look at our Bradley Liquors Twitter Page or our Bradley Liquors Facebook Page for some great spring drink recipes--everything from a Cricket to a traditional Mint Juleps to more exotic drinks like a Mai Tai, a Sex on The Beach, a Rotten Apple, and an Appletini. Check 'em out!

Today, as promised, I'm going to show you a few beer glasses--glassware for serving beer.

I'll start off with a traditional beer mug (very popular in Wisconsin, North Dakota, and other places where people of Slavic extraction are known to congregate) . It's pretty simple; good for nursing a beer over time or for "double fisting" on a hard night It has room for about a pint of beer and a thick, foamy head. The gold standard of beer glassware.










This is a nice, elaborate German beer stein. Those crazy Germans!

We have beer steins in America, but as Dave Barry, the noted humorist noted, "The difference between a beer stein in America and a beer stein in Germany is the difference between feeling pleasantly mellow and dancing naked on the roof of a moving truck."

A beer stein (sometimes called a tankard) usually has a top, actuated with the thumb by an attached lever. Steins are often elaborate and can be quite large--as many as 15 liters. This would be a multi-person stein; they pass them around at drinking festivals and for challenges.

This is a glass used for serving wheat beer--curved, open at the top so you can get a good whiff of the scent of the beer, and you really have to bury your nose in the head.

Wheat beer in German is called "Weitzen". So we get from that "Hefeweitzen" ("yeast beer"--a top fermented bear), ""Kristallweitzen" ("clear beer"--wheat beer clarified with lemon juice), and "Weitzenbock" (wheat beer made in the German "bock" style).




So those are a few different types of beer glass. There are also pilsner glasses and variations on these, but these are the basics.

Next up: recipes for simple syrup, the difference between Angostura bitters, Peychaud's bitters, and orange bitters, what Grenadine syrup is made of, and how to make your own Bloody Mary Mix-a simple recipe and complex, spicy recipe. Tune in next time!