Your Favorite Glass - A Photo Log

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Here's the premise.

One image- your favorite glass with your favorite beverage in it.
White background only- nothing fancy.

Tell us what brand of glass it is (if you know) and why you love it.

This isn't meant to be specifically about the beverage, there are plenty of threads about that. This is for displaying and discussing the glassware.

Here's my favorite



Maker- It is Block Crystal, from Poland. It is leaded. The glass is roughly 3.75" high, and the same in diameter. The massive foot on the glass brings the weight of each glass to nearly two pounds!

I should note that the sides of the glass are actually straight, it's my bloody camera that fish-eyes everything.

I LOVE the heft and the smooth, slight irregularity of a nice hand-blown glass.

Shown in the glass is a splash of Laphroaig 10 year. Seeing the slightly oily amber-gold liquid rolling around in one of these huge tumblers is a joy.

How I got them- My (then girlfriend) wife and I bought two of them about fifteen years ago in Chicago. We found out about a month later that the style was discontinued, so we drove back down and bought the last four available.

To date, only one has fallen in service. It was my favorite, the one pictured is my new favorite

So, what are you drinking FROM?