DRINKING VESSELS

Evening Star, Issue 18256, 21 April 1923, Page 11

DRINKING VESSELS

BEER IN TANKARDS. A doctor has been studying the effect of various drinking vessels on the enjoyment of those who drink out of them. The shape, size, and material of the drinking vessel, he says, exercise a peculiar influence over the zest with which drinking is enjoyed. To quote an example, few would for choice drink beer out of a teacup or lea out of a tumbler. There is something more, surely, than the mere association of ideas in this matter. Some person maintain that drinking beer from the silver or even pewter tnnknvd is 'the only way of realising to the full the palatable qualities of malt liquor. Others prefer tho brown or storteware mug, while all are unanimous in condemning the plain and especially thick glass tumbler for the purpose. There would appear to be something happy about the partnership between metal and beer. Possibly there are infinitesimal traces of metal in the beer which enhance its taste, or possibly a small electrical condition is established which freshens _ the liquid; at any rate the metal, be it silver or pewter, seems to be an attractive receptacle for effervescing beverages. Some people, again, are whimsical about the thickness of the lip of the drinking vessel, declaring that a good wine is spoiled which is put in a thick-lipped glass. Thin-lipped glasses would appear to help the sense of appreciation of a delicate wine, but for what reason it is not easy to see unless it be that the sense of taste is keener when the mouth is nearly shut.