Comments on: The Cocktail Glass http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/ Quenching your thirst with sips, nips and tipples. Sun, 18 May 2008 11:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Well Fed Network - » The Elusive Swedish Punsch http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-91326 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:44:04 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-91326 [...] Shake ingredients over ice, strain into a cocktail glass. [...] […] Shake ingredients over ice, strain into a cocktail glass. […]

]]> by: Thomas http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-87793 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:22:34 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-87793 I wonder who first created the V-shaped cocktail glass, and when? A good story there, I'm sure. I wonder who first created the V-shaped cocktail glass, and when? A good story there, I’m sure.

]]> by: Roman http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-83194 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:54:10 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-83194 The V shaped cocktail glass is definitely the most famous cocktail glass since ever. In Germany, where i'm from, there are many Cocktails served in the V glass and if the cocktail ain't coloured people always think its a martini. My personal favourite is the glass right on the picture, which is mainly used for champagne. I bought mine a few years ago on a flewmarket for about $2 a piece. The V shaped cocktail glass is definitely the most famous cocktail glass since ever. In Germany, where i’m from, there are many Cocktails served in the V glass and if the cocktail ain’t coloured people always think its a martini.

My personal favourite is the glass right on the picture, which is mainly used for champagne. I bought mine a few years ago on a flewmarket for about $2 a piece.

]]> by: Thomas http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-82221 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:39:05 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-82221 There's an antique glass shop downstairs from my office. Disregarding the need for matched sets opens up all sorts of possibilities for impulse purchases. I was just perusing Charles Baker's <i>Exotic Drinking Book</i> and found his comments there apropos: <blockquote>A PLEA for LARGER GLASSES and a Lower High-Tide Level of Pouring Use a larger glass rather than a smaller one. Much as we admire some of the liquids in Sloppy Joe's and in other places attracting trade through pouring cocktail drinks so full they slop over, a sound cocktail should <i>never be poured more than three-quarters full.</i> . . . . Skimpy cocktails are an insult - hence graduate to oversize glasses. </blockquote> A few paragraphs later, Baker's list of nine shapes of glassware for a proper bar leads off with, "The standard 2 oz. Manhattan type glass, with stem. Must be on all bars." What is popularly known as the "Martini" glass was once the "Manhattan" glass, and remains for purists the "cocktail" glass. There’s an antique glass shop downstairs from my office. Disregarding the need for matched sets opens up all sorts of possibilities for impulse purchases.

I was just perusing Charles Baker’s Exotic Drinking Book and found his comments there apropos:

A PLEA for LARGER GLASSES and a Lower High-Tide Level of Pouring

Use a larger glass rather than a smaller one. Much as we admire some of the liquids in Sloppy Joe’s and in other places attracting trade through pouring cocktail drinks so full they slop over, a sound cocktail should never be poured more than three-quarters full. . . . . Skimpy cocktails are an insult - hence graduate to oversize glasses.

A few paragraphs later, Baker’s list of nine shapes of glassware for a proper bar leads off with, “The standard 2 oz. Manhattan type glass, with stem. Must be on all bars.” What is popularly known as the “Martini” glass was once the “Manhattan” glass, and remains for purists the “cocktail” glass.

]]> by: Gerry http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-80199 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:45:28 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-80199 Delightful solution! I've been chasing a martini glass to match my martini-drinking habits: something less evening-halting that an 8-oz serving. I make about a 3-oz serving and think the glass ought to that without looking lost in the bottom. Good luck. But my wife inherited some from her dad that are perfect. So the solution--start haunting the store selling "inheritance"! Antique shops--doh! Delightful solution! I’ve been chasing a martini glass to match my martini-drinking habits: something less evening-halting that an 8-oz serving. I make about a 3-oz serving and think the glass ought to that without looking lost in the bottom. Good luck. But my wife inherited some from her dad that are perfect. So the solution–start haunting the store selling “inheritance”! Antique shops–doh!

]]> by: Robert Hess http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-78660 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:45:37 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-78660 Thomas, I personally love the 3 oz cocktail glasses, and have a small collection of them myself. For some reason it just feels more sophisticated and refined to be sipping a cocktail from a smaller, and usually more elegant glass. -Robert Thomas, I personally love the 3 oz cocktail glasses, and have a small collection of them myself. For some reason it just feels more sophisticated and refined to be sipping a cocktail from a smaller, and usually more elegant glass.

-Robert

]]> by: Thomas http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-77996 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:25:07 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2008/01/21/the-cocktail-glass/#comment-77996 Most of my vintage cocktail glasses - hand-me-downs and junk shop finds - are 2.5 to 3 ounces. Perhaps I just have an eye for the smaller gems. And thank you for your "who says they have to match" observation. Liberating! Most of my vintage cocktail glasses - hand-me-downs and junk shop finds - are 2.5 to 3 ounces. Perhaps I just have an eye for the smaller gems.

And thank you for your “who says they have to match” observation. Liberating!

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