Plastic pint glasses? Hold the phone! What could possibly warrant such a drastic measure? Official figures show 5,500 people are attacked with glasses and bottles every year in England and Wales. Oh.

Beer glasses are too big, scientists say — here’s why they want to shrink down the traditional pint By Brooke Steinberg Published Sep. 18, 2024, 4:27 p.m. ET ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Order a beer in a sports bar, you get a pint glass. Ask in a fine restaurant or brew pub, and you actually might get a glass specific for a certain style of beer.

Beer glasses are too big, scientists say — here’s why they want to shrink down the traditional pint Research found that reducing the volume of drinks consumed in pubs, bars and restaurants ...

Chug, chug, chug The nonic glass has a wide opening that allows a lot of the beer’s aroma to dissipate. But that design also makes it easy to chug a pint (~19 ounces in the UK and 16 ounces in the US) ...

"The most common vessel for serving beer—the shaker pint—was never actually intended to serve beer," says Zach Mack, owner of Alphabet City Beer Co., a craft beer bar and store in New York's ...

If you have a holder for your pint glass as well, it’s going to be more convenient,” McGarry says Here, the grocery-shopping-while-beverage-sipping started last fall.

Meanwhile, beer fans on Reddit shared some other reason pint glasses can be different shapes. "The shape of the glass can do A LOT to help accentuate certain parts of the beer," one user explained.

But you want the head to reach the top of the glass, so don't use a full pint glass for 12 ounces of beer. There's just something not right about a couple of empty inches at the top.