Catalogue no. BBG050

Belgian Beer Box

Brewery: Belgian Beer Box
Beer style: Belgian Blond
Glass style: Tasting Glass
Capacity: 15cl
Place: Brussels (Brussels)
Manufactured: 2017

Curator’s Notes

Not every glass in the Museum was produced for a brewery. This 15 cl tasting glass carries the branding of Belgian Beer Box, an online retailer rather than a brewer, and represents a different part of Belgium's beer culture: the attempt to bring its enormous variety of beers together for sale online.

Made by Rastal, the glass itself has received rather more attention than its simple black branding might suggest. A tall stem supports an angular bowl that swells outwards before drawing sharply towards the rim — somewhere between a tasting glass and an unusually geometric interpretation of a Tulip.

Belgian Beer Box appears no longer to be trading, although firm information about the business is difficult to find. The glass therefore survives as a small record of the growth — and sometimes disappearance — of specialist online beer retailing.

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