I always thought the beer tasted better in the thinner glasses. Mind you I was mainly in to drinking German lager when I was stationed in Germany, and they didn't have dimpled glasses over there for lager. Somebody else will probably say otherwise now of course. I suppose the NAAFI and messes used dimpled glasses as well. Of course those frauleins in Munich's beer halls carried even bigger and heavier glasses with no problems at all.

csqwared. That's some ugly looking fraulein.

I think that was a Herr trying to break the World record for carrying steins of bier. I don't think I could even lift one of those dimpled glasses. It was a good effort though wasn't it?

You've all missed the point regarding heavy dimpled glasses. It's nowt to do with enjoying your pint from one it's more to do with avoiding getting clobbered with one. Sad, but true.

Macscouse

The glass you refer to was called a 'fluted pint', and many people considered it the best glass ever made for beer drinking. It was introduced in the late 1920s when brewers were looking for a strong, durable glass that was easier to grip when washing it up.

Macscouse.

Yes I remember them and we even still had some in the cellar of the pub I managed. But we never brought them up. The only time I ever got rid of one of those was when a tourist from Canada asked me if he could take a beer mat (yes one of those cardboard ones) home as a souvenir. I took him down the cellar and gave him a big selection of all the different ones I had, I also gave him a selection of glasses,ash trays, bar towels and other items. He was delighted and asked if I did this for all the tourists. I told him that I didn't, but because he had been so good and honest enough to actually ask, it was a pleasure to give them to him. He said they would go down well in his garden shed/bar back home.