Special Mugs

World Cups

by Kristin Pazulski

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Published: Apr 10, 2007

Wanna celebrate happy hour at your convenience? Fox and Hound's $25 Mug Club Membership provides you with your own ceramic mug. F&H mug-clubbers get half-priced wings and 23-ounce, mug-filling beers for the price of a pint.

Drinking beer from a cowboy boot is not encouraged, unless you're sitting in Bella Rosa II. This corner bar recently resurrected its glass cowboy-boot beer mug adorned with a spur at the bottom of the handle. Although the on-tap choices (Coors Light and Budweiser) leave little in the way of draft selection, Bella offers almost two dozen bottled brews. A simple twist and you can pour into your boot many a-hootin'-and-hollerin' sip.

Almost every beer at Ludwigs gets poured into a different piece of barware, from the stemmed chalice to the tall Weisse bier glass. But of the 20 German and five Belgiun brews usually on draft, only five of the Germans (Warsteiner Dunkel, Kostritzer Schwarzbier, Spaten Optimator, Spaten Maibock, Paulaner Lager and DAB) deserve the hefty, half-liter glass mug.

The folks at Cafe Loftus commissioned artist Liz Kramer to design a line of pottery special to their drinks. The set highlights are the weighty tea and coffee mugs, speckled with swirls of color to match the smokelike swirl in the Loftus logo.

When you think stainless steel, coffee probably doesn't spring to mind. But Rx owner Greg Salisbury, seeking a more sustainable mug than the easy-chip ceramic kind, opted for four types of stainless steel. The mugs were swiped so often, he started selling them at $7 a pop. "It may seem like a lot," reads Rx's menu, "but it's the last mug you'll ever buy."

 

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