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Anyone use special glasses to pour their brew into? I work a second job in a club and 'barrowed' a couple of Energy glasses(I know, I know). Geeze, don't those glasses bring up the head and hold it. Looks better than the draught that I serve up, and mine comes out of a bottle! Have heard wispers that it could make your beer go flat sooner? Maybe they should switch to middys, well thats what I say to those blokes. Any opinions?

Maybe I don't drink in the right places anymore, what's an Energy glass?

Is it a make, a size??

Or is the reason it holds the head better that it hasn't been washed in detergent! As per previous threads on the evilas of detergent for your beer glasses

For those that dont know Energy Glasses also known as Headmaster glasses are glasses that look to have the inside base of the glass scratched or scored, this some how makes the beer release more carbon dioxide giving the beer a long lasting head and a continuos stream of tiny bubbles rising to the surface, ( im sure Dogger will have a far better understanding to relate to us all). These are quiet comon in pubs and clubs across NSW and they do give your beer a healthy lasting head. I have used these myself now for a number of years. If your beer goes flat in one of these glasses you should ashamed of your self for not drinking it quicker .
PS Dogger are these glasses in Canada?

Hmmmm.

More surface area? more agitation from the rough surface?

Just guesses, never heard of one of these bad boys, I have a lager glass which I paid 2 bucks for and an ale glass which I paid a buck for both which hold a full pint so I doubt these are scratched. As I have no friends I need no more glasses. Never thought I would say it but I get to much head, even after I wash the buggers in detergent. Couldn't figure wanting more, it would be all foam and no beer.

Dogger

The idea behind these glasses is the same as putting a scratch at the bottom of a champagne glass in order to make it form bubbles.

The carbon dioxide dissolved in the liquid forms bubbles on the scratch and rises to the surface, giving a constant bubbling.

Same sort of deal with beer glasses, I exect.

When dissolved CO2 comes in contact with something rough it forms bubbles. If you've ever tried to add priming sugar after you've bottled you'll know what I mean!

Cheers,

Oliver

So priming after bottling is bad?

How do you get it through the cap?



Dogger

use a fine drill bit and blue-tack (poster putty) to seal cap again

Yeah, yeah I meant priming after filling.

Cheers,

Oliver

Thats ok

We still Love ya

Dogger

Back onto the thread, I did my civic duty by tidying up some energy glasses that had been discarded in the street, and prefer them to any other glass for beer.

A proper 425 schooner enough that your not racing back to the 'fridge. too often, not so much it goes warm. Fits the hand neatly, and excellent head forming and retention.

Cheers,

Greg

Anyone got a picture of one? Or know where to get some around perth?

Or Melbourne?

How to find an "energy glass"

In Newcastle they're pretty common and you don't really notice them until you take a closer look.

Next time you go to the pub check out the bottom of the schooner (inside the glass). The bottom of these "energy glasses" have a grainy/pitted texture (Like they've been sand blasted).

Some publican's don't like to use them because they make the beer bubble too vigorously leading to a poorer quality of beer. The big guy (Smythy I think his name is) that runs the bar at the General Robert's (Lambton) told us one night, after we complimented the quality of his beer, that the secret to a good draught beer is to keep the lines clean and use schooner glasses without an etch (F*%K the beer up apparently by making it go flat).

Jay.

I can see that

Dogger