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"The American glass, also known as the 'Nadir Figueiredo® glass', due to the family name of the first industry to manufacture it, contains a rather low volume (
by pearlsontheroad 2y ago
"The American glass, also known as the 'Nadir Figueiredo® glass', due to the family name of the first industry to manufacture it, contains a rather low volume (190 ml) and is exceptionally ugly (Fig. 8)."
Glad to see this one mentioned. In fact, it is so popular that it has become a standard unit of measure in Brazilian recipes. The reason it is so popular is because most beer sold in Brazil comes in 600 ml bottles to be shared by everyone at the table. Beer drinking in Brazil is mostly a social activity.
- hammock 2y agoI always thought of that shape as the Luminarc working glass design. Which I assumed came from the Duralex Picardie design. Are these all related, and if so how and in what order of lineage? (I think the year of design goes 48 luminarc, 54 picardie, 56 nadir)
- marcosdumay 2y agohttps://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copo_americano https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copo_americano Looks like it's adapted from the US model of a popular Soviet glass.
- hammock 2y agoInteresting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_glass
- red_trumpet 2y agoFrom the article: > It maintains the beer cold through the most primitive of the processes: due to its low capacity, the beer is consumed so quickly it has no time to get warm.
- e28eta 2y agoThe brewery I work at will serve our Kölsch in Stange glasses (7 oz pour) for a similar reason. https://beerswithmandy.com/beer-everything-blog/what-is-a-stange-glass-and-why-do-i-care https://beerswithmandy.com/beer-everything-blog/what-is-a-st...
- dwater 2y agoWhich as the link describes is the traditional glass used for serving Kölsch in Köln. When I visited the typical service was to have servers constantly circulating with kranz trays, delivering cold beers every few minutes, so that your drink was always cold and full.
- athoscouto 2y agoI grew up finding those glasses the most horrible thing. Even though they were always popular, they became fashionable recently when new sizes were introduced. I somehow started to find they kind of beautiful when I worked at a company that only had pint-sized American glasses at their office. Now most cups in my house have this design. They are dirty cheap and very easy to replace.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> The reason it is so popular is because most beer sold in Brazil comes in 600 ml bottles to be shared by everyone at the table. Hum... I'm not sure. I believe the reason it is so popular is that it is cheap and widely distributed. But also, none of the other solutions on the article are good enough to support large temperature differences. What matches very well with it being the "daily" glass, while tulips are more refined, "nightly" ones. Oh, and it also has a viable size for coffee, water, and cahcaça (where usually only the bottom is filled). There is also a smaller version of the tulip that is popular South of São Paulo, where other companies got more reach than Nadir Figuereido.
- quantumloophole 2y ago> "is exceptionally ugly" this must be one of the most outrageous things that I ever read in regard to beer
- mbreese 2y agoWould it help if I told you I read that as regarding specifically the glass, not the beer in the glass?
- lostlogin 2y agoMeasuring fluid volume in cups has always been irritating to me. Even worse is measuring flour or other non-liquid ingredients. What’s wrong with grams?
- nemetroid 2y agoWhat's wrong with grams as a measure of fluid volume? It's not a measure of volume, for starters.
- lostlogin 2y agoThat hasn’t stopped us with all the other stupid measures we use. Do you prefer metric or US cups? Set the scales to ml if you want, most do it. It’s a hell of a lot more accurate than measuring cups.