Whether it’s a Christmas stout, celebration ale or holiday lager, now is the season customers seek out frothy glasses of seasonal beer. When your customers want to drink and be merry, it’s important to note that serving up beer in the proper glassware just makes it taste better.  Serv-U carries a variety of barware, each suited to cover certain varieties of beer. Browse this guide, before ordering you bar supplies to ensure that the beer you serve gets an optimum presentation.

Goblets are ideal for big sips and best suited to Belgian IPAs and strong dark ales. These glasses maintain head beautifully and those with bottom etching provide a constant stream of bubbles and make an excellent addition to your bar supply.

Flute glasses are not limited to champagne. The long and narrow body is perfect for showcasing a lively carbonation or a beautiful color. The shape also gives the drinker a strong, aromatic front. Flute glasses are the bar supplies best suited to fruit beers. 

Mugs are known for their “clink-ability.” Because the glassware is heavy and the handle is reliable, this large-volume design is a fun shape. Mugs are perfect for American and English ales and stouts.

Mixing glasses, often referred to as “pint glasses” are popular for their easy gripping and stacking. The thick base and sloping sides also make the glasses durable. Mixing glasses are useful when serving porters and lagers from the bar.

Pilsner glasses are easily identified as the bar glassware used for light beers, but are best suited to their namesake, the pilsner. These glasses showcase color, quality and carbonation. The pilsner is a fluted trumpet shape, easily confused with nonic glasses or bulge pilsners, which have a slight hourglass shape. Nonic glasses are ideal for wheat beers, as they improve aeration.