Guide to bulge-top sham pilsner glasses of U.S. breweries. 

Welcome to Shamboy's museum of U.S. sham pilsner glasses.  If you have a glass I have not pictured, please send me a photo of it or, better yet,  trade it or sell it to me.    Contact me by e-mail at coasterboyATtdsDOTnet.  Comments about my collection & the online museum:

1) I only collect the shape of sham pilsner glass (bulge-top sham pilsner glass) you see below and only one size of each variant, preferably the smallest one available.  Size variations will not be documented.

2) Glasses are listed by brand and brewery.  I will assign code numbers by brewery.

3) Dates are my best guess.  Dates above a section are dates the brewery was in operation.  Dates below each glass are the dates of issue.  If you have better or more complete information, please write.  The numbering system will change as I add older glasses I do not know about or get better dating information.  I will leave the numbering system intact once I know someone is actually using it.

Glass terminology & history of use

A, B
C-F
G, H
I-L
M-O
P-R
S-Z

Microbreweries with bulge-top sham pilsners
Beer festival glasses
Mystery glasses
Beer cooling system glasses
Brewers guild & association glasses
Foreign glasses

Bulge-top sham pilsner glasses for sale

Brands with multiple glasses:

A-1 Pilsner
American
Ballantine
Blatz
Budweiser
Busch
Coors
Country Club
Drewrys
Falstaff
Gettelman
Grain Belt
Griesedieck
Gunther
Hamm's
Kingsbury
Leinenkugel
Lone Star
Lucky
Meister Brau
Michelob
Miller
Mitchell
Muehlebach
National
Old Milwaukee
Old Style
Olympia
Pabst
Pearl
Peerless
Potosi
Schlitz
Schmidt
Stag
Storz

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