Cocktail or Martini glass:
The most obviously recognisable cocktail glass, the conical martini glass, emerged with the Art Deco movement. It debuted at the 1925 Paris Exposition of Decorative Arts as a clever twist on the goblet. And like most stemmed glasses. This Y-shapped variety proved perfect for chilled cocktails, keeping people's hands from inadventently warming their drinks. It gained popularity in Europe, particularly for Martinis, before proceeding to world domination after the Second World War.
Coupette glass:
Today's Coupette glass is based on the earlier champagne coupe, the saucer-shaped stem glass originally used for serving bubbly. Legend has it the coupe was modelled on a woman's breast. However, it was designed in 1663 so the story that involved the anatomy of Grtench queen Marie Antoinette must be apocryphal. To facilitate the rimming with salt necessary for Margaritas, the bowl of the coupette was widened. It's also used for Daiquiris.
Champagne flute:
The tall, thin flute glass has a hazy history. It dates back centuries, with its tapered design reducing the liquidps surface area and keeping champagne bubbly longer. However, it only became fashionable from the 1950s, possibly after Austrian flassmaker Claus Josef Riedel began reasearching the way different glass shapes affect taste. Since then, flutes, have largely supplanted the coupe for champagne and champagne cocktails - helped by the fact that more flutes fit on a serving tray.
Highball glass:
Highball glasses are tall tumblers suitable for simple drikns with a high proportion of mixer to spirit, there not only an essential component of any home bar, but the title highball drinks, also encompasses a ghost of classic tipples. such as bourbon and water, scotch and soda Bloody Marys and Vodka Tonics. Highabll glasses are versatile enough to substitute for the similarly shapped, but slightly larger Collins glass. They're related to larger Zombie and smaller Delmonico glasses too.
Lowball Glass:
The terms "lowball", "rocks" and "old-fashioned" are bandied around quite freely when referring to short, squat tumblers. As the second name suggests, they're perfect for holding ice and any spirit "on the rocks" should be served in one of these. Lowball glasses are also popular for short mixed drinks, such as Old-fashioneds. Variants include the Sazerac glass, named after the cognac-and.bitters New Orleans cocktail. The double rocks glass, nicknamed "the bucket", is used for tropical puch-style drinks.
Shot Glass:
This is the home-bar essential that most frequently moonlights as a novetly collector's item, the regular, unadorned shot glass holds just enough liquid to be downed in a mouthful and boasts a thick base to withstand being slammed on the bar after the neat spirits or mixed-spirits "shooter" within has been consumed. Standard shot glasses are not just handy for toast, they can stand in for jiggers too. And, decorated with a variety of designs, they've become popular souvenirs.
Brandy snifter:The brandy snifter stands apart from other stemware. Whereas most stemmed glasses keep warm human hands off chilled drinks, the short-stemmed, bowl-shaped sniffer invites you to cradle it in your palm, warming its amber spirit, its wide bottom creates a large surface area from which the brandy can evaporate, but the arome is trapped as the glass narrows, to a constricted mouth, allowing you to inhale it pleasurablyu bofere sipping. For best enhoymnet, a snifter should only be one-third filled.
Sour Glass:As one of the oldest family of mixed drinks, dating back to Jerry Thoma's seminal recipe book How to Mix Drinks (1862), sours, unsurpringsly, have been served up in all manner of glasses, from lowball to martini. However, sticklers for style will be pleased to learn that standard drinkware exists. The glass specified for whiskey sours, pisco sours and other citrusm sugar and spirits drinks is a smaller, modified champagne flute - narrow at the stem and widening out at the lip.
Hurricane glass:Most glasses are designed for and named after certain drinks, but this isn't exclusively true of the large (26 fl oz) hurricane glass. Although it was originally badged to contain the passionfruit-and rum "Hurricane cocktail at New Orleans bar Pat O'Brien's, its pear shape is a hompage to the hurricane lamp. Today it's associated with froen and blended cocktails. A frozen Piña Colada is virtually unthinkable without this, and it's often used for flamboyantly named cocktails of the Sex on the Beach ilk.
Wine glass:
White wine glasses tend to be smaller than red wine glasses, so use your judgement as to which will accommodate the particular cocktail you're making best. If a recipe mentions a goblet, however, go for a red wine glass or even a rounder balloon wine glass.
Irish coffee glass:
The key feature of an irish coffee glass is that it's made of heatproof glass, which makes it suitable for hot cocktails such as toddies. It's usually short-stemmed, with a handle, or may have a metal base and handle.
