I wish this was a selection of Belgian glasses. I love the practice of a different glass from each brewery. I only have about eight at home, and would love to expand.

Chicago71 wrote:My dog prefers a 96 oz porcelain drinking vessel with a flip-top lid which preserves the natural aromas and flavors.

Looks like our dogs have similar tastes

thatguy314 wrote:Wow woot.... really disappointed.

Putting Heineken in a picture trying to sell a high end beer glass is like putting Carlo Rossi in a picture trying to sell high-end wine glasses.

100% agreed. You should watch Carlo's old commercials, they are hilariously filmed with grown-out-of-control grape vines in the background.

EddyGurge wrote:I wish this was a selection of Belgian glasses. I love the practice of a different glass from each brewery. I only have about eight at home, and would love to expand.

Indeed!

I'd like to 2nd, 3rd and 348th the idea of a beer.woot / drink.woot with some beer in there.

Apparently all of you Heineken-bashers have never had Heineken out of the can. It's without question one of my favorite lagers. I'm confused as to why anyone would want to buy a beer in a green bottle...

On the other hand, I'd wholeheartedly support a beer.woot.com too.

mathfreak007 wrote:I'd like to 2nd, 3rd and 348th the idea of a beer.woot / drink.woot with some beer in there.

While it would be great and I would definitely purchase from a beer.woot site I will have to say that I am against it. I already spend far too much money on woot and wine.woot and really dont need another site that all of my money will be spent at

Based on the description, it looks like this glass will hold a properly poured pint including an adequate head. As most bottled beers come in 11.2 - 12.0 ounce bottles, a pair of these glasses is perfect for splitting three beers between father and son!

You really do get a better appreciation of the flavor profile of a nice beer with a proper glass, just as you do with wine. I think these glasses would be good for summer time beers. Beyond lagers (think Pilsener style) these would be fine for wheat beers of many styles, as well. For richer beers, I'd stick to Belgian style tulips. My current favorite is a Tripel Karmeliet tulip I received for my birthday recently.

lassow wrote:100% agreed. You should watch Carlo's old commercials, they are hilariously filmed with grown-out-of-control grape vines in the background.

Holy Battlefield Earth (2000), that's hilarious!

viscosity2004 wrote:I hope so! I wouldn't mind if wine.woot became drink.woot and started selling beers too!

I'm pretty sure there's no way I could remain solvent if that happened.

lassow wrote:100% agreed. You should watch Carlo's old commercials, they are hilariously filmed with grown-out-of-control grape vines in the background.

Watched a few, and I think I need to start drinking Carlo Rossi instead of buying from WineDavid. It is, after all, supposed to be better than Inglenook at a lower price (ha ha), and if you can't taste the difference, why pay the difference?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but beer.woot would be logistically problematic and a legal nightmare.

Premium beers usually lack artificial preservatives so they're more vulnerable to spoilage. Shipping out of Texas, especially via SmartPost, would be a bad idea.

Also, the rules for beer and wine are very different so they'd have to invest a nice chunk of money in legal fees and still would not be able to ship to the majority of states.

What I really want out here is a deal on these

TITANIUM CRYSTAL

Have 2 - slap in a dishwasher with no problems...

bsevern wrote:Magic 8 ball says.....shake, shake, shake.....flip...

Signs point to yes!

Wait, are you a Rat? Come on, you dirty rat, sing!

jtz77 wrote:Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but beer.woot would be logistically problematic and a legal nightmare.

Premium beers usually lack artificial preservatives so they're more vulnerable to spoilage. Shipping out of Texas, especially via SmartPost, would be a bad idea.

Also, the rules for beer and wine are very different so they'd have to invest a nice chunk of money in legal fees and still would not be able to ship to the majority of states.

Yes, we've been down this road before.

Usually I drink my beer out of those red plastic cups. Yes I am in college, and I know you know what I'm talking about. The beer is also cheap, disgusting, black label stuff but hey its cheap and I need to buy a lot.

These glasses will however make that terrible beer just a little less shittier. And maybe people will think instead of drinking piss I'm drinking a delicious microbrew. Just maybe.

DemonicGman wrote:Usually I drink my beer out of those red plastic cups. Yes I am in college, and I know you know what I'm talking about. The beer is also cheap, disgusting, black label stuff but hey its cheap and I need to buy a lot.

These glasses will however make that terrible beer just a little less shittier. And maybe people will think instead of drinking piss I'm drinking a delicious microbrew. Just maybe.

Nothing better than some keystone light out of a plastic cup.....ahh, the good 'ole days.

People who drink "Light Beer" don't like the taste of beer, they like to pee.

mfossati wrote:cheaper on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Spiegelau-Classics-Lager-Glass-Packed/dp/B001CFNIAG

edit:
oops, not cheaper w/ shipping. but still - not much of a woot.

Well, the price here is $21.99 with shipping. The price on Amazon is $21.15 WITHOUT shipping.

But if you have Amazon Prime, then 2-day shipping is FREE. Woot shipping is $5 for two weeks.

So if you have Amazon Prime, that's the better deal by a long shot.

Jixiar wrote:Well, the price here is $21.99 with shipping. The price on Amazon is $21.15 WITHOUT shipping.

But if you have Amazon Prime, then 2-day shipping is FREE. Woot shipping is $5 for two weeks.

So if you have Amazon Prime, that's the better deal by a long shot.

Eighty-four cents is a "long shot"? I know it's a tough economy and all, but seriously...?

k1avg wrote:Eighty-four cents is a "long shot"? I know it's a tough economy and all, but seriously...?

Even if it were 84 cents more, I would prefer to have it in two days over two weeks and would still order from Amazon. You have to figure in the value your time spent waiting for this to be delivered and the amount of beer not properly consumed in the meantime

mursecrna wrote:As someone who brews and grows their own hops (so as to not be subjected to hop shortages or price issues), I don't believe a 5 gallon batch of any "great" beer can be brewed for less than the cost of these glasses. A clone of a mass produced, rice beer, maybe, but not a great beer...

This is the winner for me. To cardinalsfan, PeterN, ZSN, it's certainly possible to brew fifty bottles of beer for the cost of these glasses, but it's hard for me to believe anyone doing so would have standards low enough to consider it great beer. Even if hops don't cost what they did a couple years ago, pricing yourself at twenty bucks limits you to using almost entirely basic grains, common hop varieties, and standard yeasts. Growing your own hops or reusing yeast cakes can bring your costs down substantially, sure, but it also (a) limits the type of beer you can make and (b) isn't possible for those of us who live in an urban setting and/or only brew every so often (yeah, you can collect and store the yeast, but is it really worth the trouble to save five or ten bucks?). Not to mention that the costs of time, equipment, and water (again, at least for those of us who live in urban areas and have to buy distilled or painfully run it all through a filter) should be factored in as well.

Ultimately, though, I think the point here is that no one is forcing anyone to choose between two premium pint glasses or five gallons of beer. If you're the sort of person who cheaps out on your homebrewing, then you're the sort of person who's going to drink the result out of a $2 standard glass from Target, at best.

LSlipetz wrote:Even if it were 84 cents more, I would prefer to have it in two days over two weeks and would still order from Amazon. You have to figure in the value your time spent waiting for this to be delivered and the amount of beer not properly consumed in the meantime

True enough. I realized that is probably what he meant as I wrote my next post, but now I won't go back and edit so as to not render your retort nonsensical.

I'll just continue to use my local liquor store as my own semi-private beer.woot.com.

+ 1 on the beer woot day thing.....kinda wondering if the diversity in the micro-beer market is enough to warrant a whole site.....I'd be all over it though....

edit: I know there are tons of micro breweries around the country and internationally, it just feels like a different beast though....

These looks plenty nice, but I just picked up four becker glasses for just a touch more. Becker glasses, by the way, I think are much nicer for any pale lager than these also.

Yes to all who have said it: Beer deserves to always be put in the right glass, and I've never met a beer that deserves a frosted glass. Frosted glasses presumably are there to make beers colder or keep them that way, but this is not ideal for pretty much any beer. I've also found ice floating in such a beer from the condensation... it was very disappointing.

These are certainly acceptable for pale lagers, if not ideal. They wouldn't be preferred for much else. Drinking something Belgian/Franco-Belgian? Go goblet, tulip, or cervoise. British? Nonick, or maybe tulip pint. Something big and high alcohol? Snifter. Some beer styles have their own glasses (Kölsch and its stange are a great example) or some breweries issue glassware to accompany their beers. When in doubt I go tulip.

Buy these if you can't find a cheaper choice suitable for pale lagers, and you drink good pale lagers.

k1avg wrote:Supposedly, you're actually not supposed to use frosted glasses, since they're usually covered with condensation and collect more as you pour, which dilutes the beer. Some beer snobs get really uppity about it, but I don't think it makes a difference, especially if you're just drinking something plain like Heineken.

Besides that, though, it's just pointless - the specific heat of glass is so low and the specific heat of beer is so high that the temperature change chilling a glass would effect in the beer is minute. It doesn't seem worth the effort.

I'm going to call BS on this one, as anyone who has had their beer iced by a frosted mug will attest.

The best beers aren't meant to be served ice cold, though, so it's essentially a victimless crime.

k1avg wrote:This is the winner for me. To cardinalsfan, PeterN, ZSN, it's certainly possible to brew fifty bottles of beer for the cost of these glasses, but it's hard for me to believe anyone doing so would have standards low enough to consider it great beer. Even if hops don't cost what they did a couple years ago, pricing yourself at twenty bucks limits you to using almost entirely basic grains, common hop varieties, and standard yeasts. Growing your own hops or reusing yeast cakes can bring your costs down substantially, sure, but it also (a) limits the type of beer you can make and (b) isn't possible for those of us who live in an urban setting and/or only brew every so often (yeah, you can collect and store the yeast, but is it really worth the trouble to save five or ten bucks?). Not to mention that the costs of time, equipment, and water (again, at least for those of us who live in urban areas and have to buy distilled or painfully run it all through a filter) should be factored in as well.

Ultimately, though, I think the point here is that no one is forcing anyone to choose between two premium pint glasses or five gallons of beer. If you're the sort of person who cheaps out on your homebrewing, then you're the sort of person who's going to drink the result out of a $2 standard glass from Target, at best.

I'm enjoying this drivel. True beer snobs are rare, like the Corn Tortilla and Peanut snob, but no less enjoyable.

This woot is for a simple set of beer glasses. Decent looking ones at that, and you folks are debating the price of hops.

Pardon me whilst I turn my attention to the much more important Moon Pie debate...

I don't know how in the heck you expect me to fit those beer glasses on my face

Disappointed in todays wine woot. I like the beer woot idea or could this item be on the woot site. Confused as why this is on wine.woot.

I had to throw in my own two cents on this one. I'm an avid homebrewer and a beer "snob".

Firstly, on the argument of how much a batch of good homebrewed beer costs, there are more factors to take into account than what has been mentioned. If you are a more advanced all-grain brewer and own a grain mill, you can get high quality base grain for $0.60/lb when buying full sacks. Plus, I usually have a good amount of high quality hop varieties that I enjoy on hand from buying in bulk during harvest season. Even if you are buying new yeast everytime, you're still not going to go over the $20 a batch range unless you're brewing extremely hoppy or high gravity ales or lagers.

Those of us who have been brewing for a while consistently brew a style or two often to always have on tap. I have a few yeast strains that I use interchangeably in my hoppy ales and always have some washed and on hand in mason jars. Also, yeast that has been washed and is in it's second or third generation is not only cheaper, as you only had to buy it one time, it carries out a much healthier fermentation and produces better flavors.

Not to mention that many other factors such as temperature control, aeration, and addition of yeast nutrients and water salts all affect flavor more than how much you paid for your ingredients.

Oh...and a big NO to frosty mugs unless you're drinking light beer. You'll want most beers served in the 40-50ºF range (with the exception of a few styles). As mentioned in previous posts, glasses matter for beer just as much as wine. Take a stroll down to your favorite local privately owned brewpub and I'm sure you'll each beer on the list being served in a different glass for a reason.

Not a great deal and I don't need any more beer glasses right now. That said...

God help me if beer.woot becomes a permanent fixture around here. As it is, I've spent >$400 on WW in the past month!!! :-o

tnshy wrote:Disappointed in todays wine woot. I like the beer woot idea or could this item be on the woot site. Confused as why this is on wine.woot.

I'm sure WD will make up for it with a kick azz wine offering tonight, right!?!?!?!

Came here to say that there needs to be a beerwoot. Or at least, fancy craft beers should be sold on winewoot more often.

drsilverworm wrote:Came here to say that there needs to be a beerwoot. Or at least, fancy craft beers should be sold on winewoot more often.

I wasn't aware of that wine.woot ever did a beer offering. Links?