Modern beer mugs, except again decorative or luxury versions, do not have a lid.īeer mugs (0.5 and 1 litre) are typical for beer gardens and especially the Oktoberfest, where they are popular for their robustness. Ordinary German beer mugs have been made out of glass for hygienic reasons since the introduction of glass mugs to the 1892 Oktoberfest. Steins have also been known to have been made out of wood, earthenware, and crystal. Material īeer steins were made primarily with pewter in many areas across Europe (primarily in England), but many steins were known to be made of glass, porcelain, and silver as well.
On 21 September 2014, Oliver Strumpfel broke the record for most beer steins carried over 40 metres (130 ft) without spilling, managing 25 steins. This unique German potters region has been creating beer steins for centuries and is famous among the collectors as the original German beer stein producer. The most traditional area of beer stein production is the Kannenbäckerland in the Westerwald region in Germany. Production of beer steins has become substantial in America, but the largest producer of beer steins is Ceramarte of Brazil. Porcelain's advantage was that a stein fabricator could use molds to make "character steins", steins that had a particular shape modeled after an item or collecting antique and replicated beer steins became a very popular hobby not only among individual people, but in museums as well. In using glass, not only could one produce multiple glass mugs, but an artistic touch could add to the glass by including acid etchings, glass staining, or even multicolored overlays. The advantage in using stoneware to make steins was that molds could be used to mass-produce elaborately carved steins. Instead, the prevailing belief was that it was spread through dangerous “miasmas”. This is unlikely to be true, as contemporaries did not know fleas spread the disease.
It is believed by some that the hinged lid was implemented during the age of the Black Plague to prevent diseased flies from getting into the beer. The word Stein alone is not used any more to refer to a beverage container in standard German rather, Krug, Humpen or, especially in Bavaria and Austria, Seidel are used. The word can be compared to Old English stæne "pitcher, jug". It is borrowed from German Stein, which has – aside from its prevailing meaning "stone" – elder regional meanings "beer mug" and "beer measure of 1 litre or 2 Schoppen".
A typical half-litre German Humpen (beer mug)
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