# What is the best beer glass?

> Shape changes the head, the aroma and how fast you drink. Most of these are engineering; at least one is a practical joke.

*By YPB Team · Published September 15, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-beer-glass*

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1. **Maß Stein**
   The one-litre Oktoberfest handle, which weighs more than a kilo before it is filled.
2. **Pilsner Glass**
   Tall and tapered, built to show the colour and hold the head of a pale lager.
3. **Nonic Pint**
   The British pub pint with a bulge near the rim, so wet glasses do not stick when stacked.
4. **Weizen Vase**
   Half a litre of curved glass with room for the enormous head a wheat beer throws.
5. **Tulip Glass**
   A stemmed bowl that traps aroma, standard for strong Belgian ales.
6. **Teku**
   Designed in Italy in 2006 and adopted by craft brewers as the all-purpose tasting glass.
7. **Trappist Chalice**
   Wide, heavy and often scored at the base to keep the foam rising.
8. **Dimpled Mug**
   The handled British jug with the thick glass grid, back in fashion after fifty years out.
9. **Stange**
   Cologne's narrow 200ml cylinder, replaced by the waiter until you cover it with a beer mat.
10. **Snifter**
   Borrowed from brandy for barrel-aged stouts you are meant to warm in your hand.
11. **Shaker Pint**
   The American bar default, stackable and cheap, and disliked by everyone who studies glassware.
12. **Willi Becher**
   Germany's everyday tapered tumbler, the glass most German beer is actually drunk from.
13. **Kwak Coachman's Glass**
   A bulbed tube that cannot stand without its wooden holder.
14. **Yard Glass**
   A metre of glass with a bulb at the bottom, which empties into your face if you rush.

Tags: drinks, beers, design