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Wine and Spirits | Beer Boot ...Beer BootSubmitted by andrew on Monday Sep 17, 2007 and viewed 163 timesTotal Word Count: 621 Author Rating: NA Rate this article
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Beer boots or Bierstiefeln in German have over a century of history and culture behind them. It is commonly believed that a general promised his troops to drink beer from his boot if they were successful in battle. When the troops prevailed, the general had a glass maker fashion a boot from glass to fulfill his promise without tasting his own feet and to avoid spoiling the beer in his leather boot.
Many of you may be asking what exactly a beer boot is. What's the history behind them? Beer boots or Bierstiefeln in German have over a century of
history and culture behind them. It is commonly believed that a general
promised his troops to drink beer from his boot if they were successful in
battle. When the troops prevailed, the general had a glass maker fashion a boot
from glass to fulfill his promise without tasting his own feet and to avoid
spoiling the beer in his leather boot. Since then, soldiers have enjoyed
toasting to their victories with a beer boot. At gatherings in The shape of the boot makes drinking more difficult. As you
drink down the beer and tilt the boot backwards at an angle, an air pocket
fills in the toe and has to be cautiously released. The trick to drinking from
the boot is to hold the boot so that the toe is pointed either to your left or
right, preventing an air bubble from building up in the toe. As a restaurant or bar purchaser, before you buy beer boot glasses, you should try out whether they fit appropriately under your beer tap for filling. If necessary you can fill a beer jug and transfer the beer into the boot; however, the some head is lost in the transfer process.
Beer boot glasses are inherently more expensive than other
glasses, because of their labor intensive mouth blown production process, their
high demand, and the fact that they are imported from
Beer Boots are very popular pieces of collecting breweriana and make the perfect gift for college students, your everyday beer fan and are increasingly popular as groomsman gifts for weddings.
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