Willibecher
A Willibecher or Willybecher has been a German standard glass since 1954. At 80% of the height, it is slightly wider than at the bottom and at the edge, i.e. it is double-conical in shape.
The Willibecher is produced in the sizes 0.2 l , 0.25 l, 0.3 l, 0.4 l and 0.5 l.
history
The rationalization imperatives of the post-war period favored a type of glass that was easy to produce. Before that, beer was often drank from tankards . One anecdote says that in 1954 Willy Steinmeier, an employee of Ruhrglas GmbH in Essen, designed the Willibecher, which is easy to manufacture.
The Willibecher was adopted by many breweries in the Federal Republic of Germany as the standard beer glass and is still the most popular beer glass model today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d falstaff.at: Conrad Seidl: Beer finds glass , 2011
- ↑ Willybecher ( Memento from October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Uli Burchardt: Ausggeizt !: Valuable is better - The Manufactum principle , Campus Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3593396644 .
- ↑ Numerous guests at the opening of the exhibition "The Willybecher" in the Heimatstube in the New Palace ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )