The presence in the kitchen bar making the interior more expressive and stylish. This fashionable accent to become more and more popular today. It is especially important to use the bar in the spacious kitchen-dining room or living room-studio. It will serve not only the fashionable element of the room, but the separator functional areas. Often, the presence in the house of the bar suggests the presence of a bar, which stores and other alcoholic beverages, an important component of which is a bar glass.
Enjoy the taste of your favorite cocktail sometimes want not only in clubs and restaurants, but also at home, for example, in the company of friends or watching an interesting film. Bar glass vessels called sorts of various shapes, which are intended for feeding of alcohol or other beverages. There are: glasses, wine glasses, wine glasses, glasses, shot glasses, mugs, etc. Moreover, there is a container for each type of drink. Beverage serving in a bowl turns ordinary process in the aesthetic pleasure.
Content
- Varieties of bar glasses
- Vermouth
- A sparkling wine
- Cognac
- Undiluted alcohol and cocktails
- White wine and red
- Beer and cocktails based on it
- selection rules
Varieties of bar glasses
A wide range of beverage vessels can be divided into several categories. Their distinctive features are: the shape, height, width. Such diversity exists not by chance, it is known that correctly picked bar glass, lets you feel the taste of the drink in all its glory. Therefore, it is advisable to buy the main types of glassware:
- Glasses. Designed for beverages that require a slow, leisurely drinking.
- Glasses. They are used for beverages, filed with ice.
- Shots. Necessary for the alcohol that is consumed in a single mouthful.
- Vessels cocktail hot. Typically, these containers are used for coffee, milk.
- Dishes for different alcohol. For some cocktails have their own containers of various shapes and sizes. Often they are called in the same way as does the cocktail.
Glass receptacles may be classified by type of beverage:
Vermouth
Glass "Martinka" needed for cold drinks without the addition of ice cubes. Do not use undiluted for drinks. Due to the special form of such a container, the liquid therein does not heat up, and the wide edge of the glass make it easy to drink. Decoration can be a slice of lemon, orange, lime or other fruit, as well as sugar and mint. Displacement cocktail glasses varies from 90 to 240 ml. The first are the most popular. For different cocktails used cans to 160 ml. But crockery larger capacity is quite rare.
A sparkling wine
Bar glass for sparkling wines "flute" has a narrow elongated shape of the bowl on the thin high leg. This form does not allow to drink quickly fizzle. Besides elongated shape, for sparkling wine glasses may be flat, in the form of a bowl or saucer "tulip". The form of the second is similar to the "flute" but has a capacious bowl, which expands in the middle and slightly narrowed at the top.
Cognac
Cognac or brandy glass voice has a spherical shape. It serves alcoholic drinks undiluted: cognac, brandy, calvados, armagnac. This form of the cup is not accidental, it is designed specifically to be able to drink warm hands. Delicate taste of cognac is well perceptible only warmed by the state. Although the dimensions of the glass, the beverage therein should be less than 50 ml. Cognac does not drink in one gulp, and little by little, to give the opportunity to enjoy its delicate flavor. Glass in the manufacture of vessels of such a form is only transparent to show the natural color of the drink.
Undiluted alcohol and cocktails
- Old Fashion - Low largest vessel undiluted alcohol and mixes with the addition of ice. Thick glass bottom allows the ice cubes do not melt longer.
- Highball. it is quite large and wide adjustment. It can be found in every bar. It used for alcoholic mixes, as well as for juices, mineral water, water with gas and without.
- Collins, as well as for supplying Highball ideal spirits, and cocktails with ice. Furthermore, it is supplied with water, juice, drinks with gas, but unlike the previous vessel, it has straight walls.
- Hurricane glass has a rather large size and pear-shaped. Unlike wine glasses for champagne, his leg is much shorter. Its dimensions and are of three types: large, medium and small. Such a bar glass is not used to alcohol, which is supplied undiluted. The vessel is required for all kinds of exotic cocktails, frozen drinks or whipped in a blender. Moreover cocktail may be both alcoholic and no monochrome or colored with use of fruit juice.
White wine and red
wine bar glass is of two kinds: for white and red. The former have a slightly smaller volume than the second, but they are more elongated shape. Wine glasses for red organic wines rounder and wider. The legs of both vessels are sufficiently long, designed for easy holding.
Well in any home and has a stack of glasses for vodka, tequila, gin, liqueurs and all sorts of other things alcohol. The forms are different from conventional cylindrical, to faceted.
As a complement to please guests and yourself with unusual cocktails, you can buy the dishes for hot drinks, for example, for Irish coffee, mulled wine. Such vessels have tulip cup or cone-shaped and are often provided with a handle, and their case is made of heat resistant glass.
Beer and cocktails based on it
Glass for beer and beer cocktails may have a different volume from 250 to 1000 ml. Depending on the type and grade of beer shape of the vessel can also vary. For example, popular as elongated tulip and wedge-shaped glasses, and even in the form of a cup. Unusually thin cylindrical cups intended for special beers. Beer mug are scalloped or in the form of a simple cylinder with a handle. Most often they look massive and can be up to a liter.
selection rules
If the house has a bar and for storing drinks cabinet, It must necessarily be a corresponding dishes. Because the glass - very capricious material requiring careful maintenance, it is necessary to clean it constantly need. Otherwise fully enjoy a drink will not work.
If the house or apartment often noisy parties and celebrations with friends and family, it is better to buy set of glasses, glasses, wine glasses and other vessels required, depending on the beverage to be fed.
Glasses of ordinary glass are cheaper than dishes made of crystal, but they must be of good quality, meet all standards and requirements, belong to well-known manufacturers.
Before you buy a bar glass, ensure its quality and appearance. The surface must not be scratched, and even more chips. Such defects are not only aesthetically unattractive but also dangerous to health. vessel walls must be homogeneous, without bubbles and turbidity. Ideally, if the glasses are monolithic, with no separate mounting feet to the bowl.
Get yourself a glass goblets and glasses as a set or separately, you need to consider many factors. It is important to take into account not only the types of bar glass, their design and color, but also the quality. Firm, reliable cookware will last a long time, will be safe and will enjoy the taste of your favorite cocktails and drinks in the company of loved ones.