The Allegany County school board is set to crush a decades-old promnight tradition of letting students choose beer mugs, wine glasses and
brandy snifters as commemorative keepsakes.
A good bar setup should include glasses for martinis, highballs, Collins and beer as well as
brandy snifters, sherry copitas and champagne flutes.
Previously,
brandy snifters and Scotch nosing glasses were used to taste bourbon, as the optimal glass for this spirit had never been developed.
Alfred Fromm and Otto Meyer are pictured holding
brandy snifters; very appropriately, as they were leaders in the marketing of California brandy; one with Fromm & Sichel selling Christian Brothers brandy and the latter with Paul Masson.
Rossing of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb brought a number of
brandy snifters and wine glasses into the laboratory.
Unlike
brandy snifters that have a wide rim, The Dalmore's copita is small and tulip-shaped, with just enough space to stick one's nose in.
Enjoy them well-chilled and serve them in
brandy snifters that will concentrate their intense fruit aromas.