Learn the significance of choosing the right beer glass or mug. This guide explores eight essential beer glasses and mugs and explains how each enhances the beer’s taste, aroma, and appearance. Know ...

The glass adds to the tactile facet of the experience, while the shape of the glass itself can augment the flavor of the beer it holds. [ Hello, inbox: Sign up for the weekly Things To Do newsletter .

That's why fancy beer glasses often have etching in the middle of the bottom, so that you get a cool cascade of bubbles coming up to the top and reinforcing the foam. Photograph: Parker Hall.

Apart from the visual cues, beer in dirty glassware can sometimes have an off-aroma, which Smith describes as a “wet dog smell.” A funky-smelling beer is going to be markedly less enjoyable.

Best beer glasses. Tossware 16-ounce Unbreakable Beer Glasses (Set of 4) $22 $26 15% off $22. The Tossware pints are dead ringers for the classic glasses you might find at a brewery.