Know Your Glasses - Other glasses

[Other glasses]

A bar with a cocktail and wine program would likely have all of the above glasses (perhaps either the martini or coupe, not both). We’ll cover beer and wine glasses in more detail in the beer and wine batches later in this course, but here are some less common glass types you may also come across:

1. Brandy balloon (or snifter): Short stemmed, with a wide bowl ending at a narrow rim, for serving neat brandy (including cognac), particularly in fine dining restaurants.
2. Glencairn/tasting glass: Small, tulip-shaped, with wide bowl that narrows at rim – the Glencairn is designed for whisky (without a stem), while a normal wine or spirits tasting glass has a stem. Sometimes used in bars to serve neat spirits.
3. Julep: Like a metal tumbler, usually wider at the rim than the base, used for juleps – drinks made over and filled with crushed ice.
4. Margarita: Similar to a coupe, but with an extra, smaller bowl below the main bowl, to provide greater volume for larger cocktails served up (or for blended drinks with crushed ice).
5. Tiki mug: Ceramic or sometimes plastic tall vessel, usually with a strange face design, meant to look like the Polynesian god statues that helped inspire the original tiki bar craze.