Beer Mugs

Beer Mugs and Glasses and Steins and Maßkrugs

In our time over in Europe we went to many places where beer was a major attraction (Stuttgart & Cannstatter Volksfest, Munich & Oktoberfest, Çeské Budêjovice [aka Budweis], Plzeň [birthplace of the "pilsner" style of brewing], etc.), and took tours of some of the breweries. I often snagged a souvenir beer mug or three for my collection on these excursions. Now, as we get ready to move to Maine, I have photographed the collection for a visual record, and here they are:

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Mugs and glasses from breweries in and around Stuttgart (circa 1991 to 1995):
Graceful, delicate glass mug from Dinkel Acker Brewery with a hand-blown look. Small writing says, "Brau-Erfahrung aus 200 jähriger Familientradition"	Different angle for the Dinkel Acker mug; English translation of the small writing is, "Brewing experience from 200 years of family tradition"	Dinkel Acker tulip Pils glass	Dinkel Acker Commemorative mug from the 1993 IGA International Gardening "World's Fair" held in Stuttgart	Souvenir Beer Mug from Wirtshausbrauerei in Bernhausen-Filderstadt, near Stuttgart
5th Year Anniversary Mug (0.2 liter, tiny!) from Calwer-Eck-Bräu Microbrewery in Downtown Stuttgart (est. 1987, so circa 1992)	5th Year Anniversary Mug from Calwer-Eck-Bräu Microbrewery in Downtown Stuttgart (est. 1987, so circa 1992)	A 0.2 liter (tiny!) Beer Glass from Calwer-Eck-Bräu Microbrewery in Downtown Stuttgart	Elegant dragon-handled and porcelain-topped growler from Calwer-Eck-Bräu Microbrewery in Downtown Stuttgart
Ornate Decorative Stuttgart Ceramic Stein		Schwaban Braü's "Das Echte" pils-style glass for their Märzen Bier	Schwaben Bräu Beer Mug, pre-Dinkel Acker Takeover	Schwaben Bräu Beer Mug, pre-Dinkel Acker Takeover
Stuttgarter Hofbräu half liter mug	147th Cannstatter Volksfest (1992) Plochinger Beer Commemorative Stein (3-sided view). Alas, the Plochinger Brewery closed in 1995.	Dinkel Acker Neue Staatsgalerie (New City Museum) Commemorative Beer Mug	40th Birthday Stein Inscription	40th Birthday Stein (3-sided view), a gift from our German neighbors Ursula, Gerhard, and Frank.
Full Liter fest Maßkrug mugs from various fests:
Ceramic Commemorative Maßkrug from the Cannstatter Volksfest (1986), acquired from the Patch Barracks Thrift Shop	Ceramic Schwaban Bräu Maßkrug, acquired from the Cannstatter Volksfest Schwaban Bräu Fest Tent (under suspicious circumstances)	Ceramic Dinkel Acker Maßkrug, acquired from the Cannstatter Volksfest Dinkel Acker Fest Tent (under suspicious circumstances)	White Ceramic Dinkel Acker Commemorative 146th Cannstatter Volksfest (1991) Maßkrug, acquired from the Cannstatter Volksfest	Glass Stuttgarter Hofbräu Maßkrug, acquired from the Cannstatter Volksfest Stuttgarter Hofbräu Fest Tent (under suspicious circumstances)
Glass Löwenbräu Maßkrug, acquired from the Löwenbräu Fest Tent at the Oktoberfest in Munich (under suspicious circumstances)	Glass Spaten (Spade) Maßkrug, acquired from the Spaten Fest Tent at the Oktoberfest in Munich (under suspicious circumstances)	Ceramic Hackerbräu Oktoberfest commemorative Maßkrug, acquired at Oktoberfest in Munich (München) - 3-sided view	1992 Oktoberfest Commemorative maßkrug, acquired at Oktoberfest in Munich (München)	1992 Oktoberfest Commemorative maßkrug, acquired at Oktoberfest in Munich (München) - 3-sided view
REAL "Budweiser" glasses and mugs from the Budvar Pivovar in Çeské Budêjovice, Czechia:
Side view of a tall .4L glass "Budweiser/Budvar" mug	Front view of a tall .4L glass "Budweiser/Budvar" mug	Pair of graceful 0.5 L "Budweiser/Budvar" glasses	Graceful 0.5 L Budvar glass	0.3 L "Budweiser/Budvar" glass
	Budweiser Budvar Decorative Ceramic Beer Mug		Budweiser Budvar Decorative Ceramic Beer Mug - 3-sided view
Miscellaneous decorative mugs from various places:
Three views of the "Town Musicians of Bremen" beer mug (a gift from an exchange student), depicting the participants in the Grimm Fairy Tale of the same name	Westmalle (Belgium) Trappist beer chalice	Half Liter Ceramic Mug from Nürnberg	Bürgerschoppen ("Citizen's Pint) Weiterode 1986 Ceramic Beer Mug (Weiterode is a village in Northeastern Hesse)	'Prosit' ('Cheers') and 'Zum Wohle' ('To your health') Beer Mug Set
Karlovy Vary, Czechia (aka Carlsbad) Souvenir Beer Mug - both sides	Ornate Pilsner Urquell Brewery Mug, from the brewery in Plzeň Czechia (Czech Republic at the time) - 3-sided view	A half-liter mug from the Kõnig Brewery, founded in 1858 in the Lower Rhine country community Beeck, between Duisburg and Wesel	3 merged photos of an intricate beer mug. Possibly meant for customizing with that large blank shield-like area	Colmar, Alsace, and Riquewihr (3 towns in France with German influence) depicted on one beer mug (3 photos of the same mug merged)
Pivovar (brewery) Český Krumlov (Czechia) Souvenir Beer Mug	Český Krumlov (Czechia) Souvenir Beer Mug - 3-sided view	Half Liter Eggenberg Beer Glass from Český Krumlov (Czechia)	Puzzle Mug from Plzeň (Pilzen) Czechia	Sherlock Holmes Pub Sign Beer Mug (part of a series) - both sides
Pewter Schnapps Shot Cups for German Schnapps* (different than American Schnapps):*
Der Briefbote (The Letter Carrier) Schnapps Cup	Sigurd (Siegfried) Slaying the Dragon Schnapps Cup		Rabbit Schnapps Cup	Making Wine Schnapps Cup
	King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Schnapps Cup	German Pewter Schnapps Cup Collection	Gruss (Gruß) Aus Munchen (Greetings from Munich) Schnapps Cup
Mugs and glasses I acquired pre- or post-Germany:
Chem lab 500ml beaker mugs with handle, and a 4L beaker pitcher. Used to be 6 mugs but one broke.	One of the 500ml beaker mugs	Four-masted schooner etched into a glass mug	Rough old window-pane glass, blown into a handled mug	Concave crystal-style glass mug
Convex crystal-style glass mug	Permanently-frosted glass mug... always looks ice-cold!	Glass Michelob goblet	Glass mug with the German toast "Prost!" etched on it	Small old-style "A&W" Root Beer mug
Squat Bavarian-style dimpled glass mug	Thin Bavarian-style dimpled glass mug	Well-worn Lowell Technological Institute beer mug	Unmarked glass half liter mug	Unmarked Ceramic beer mug
Ceramic earthenware wood-like glazed mug (3 views)	First-run collector's item "typo" glasses from Oxbow Brewery in Newcastle ME. It's a "Farmouse" brewery, as opposed to a "Near Mouse."	Tall (9.5in) Unmarked Ceramic Half Liter Beer Glass		Unmarked Glass Beer Stein
Pewter-like mugs (armetale perhaps), gifts from Lynn: