OPINION: Eau de Vie’s Owner Begs You to Stop Stealing His Shit
In the 18 months after Sven Almenning opened his first bar, $40,000 worth of glassware was stolen. That was just the start, he writes.

Starts to add up quite quickly, was chatting with a mate as he was setting up his bar and the cost of all these things soon ramps up when your getting 10 or 20!

There’s a bar in Ghent that takes one of your shoes as a deposit for certain beer glasses – depending on what beer you order.
They hoist it up into the rafters in a basket until you return the glass.

Perhaps this place should do something similar…!

^hahaha, I was just about to post that!!

Yep been to that bar and had to hand over a shoe, it was a very fancy glass with a wooden holder as I recall…. (I don’t recall that much tbh….)

Two pairs of flip flops from the pound shop……Ka-ching! Glassware Bonanza!

It’s for orders of Kwak beer

I’m no even sure half the people in here know such a thing as the the pound shop exists! 😆

😳 my favourite whisky glass is one stolen ahem borrowed from a pub in 1984. I admired it and my then boss (it was someone’s leaving do) encouraged me to nick it. Its a lovely glass, but I promise to give it back.

There’s a bar in Ghent that takes one of your shoes as a deposit

So what happens when you go for a piss? Do you have to stand in in a sock in a pool of warm piss in the stalls?

So what happens when you go for a piss? Do you have to stand in in a sock in a pool of warm piss in the stalls?

I’d be hopping mad.

There’s a bar in Ghent that takes one of your shoes as a deposit for certain beer glasses – depending on what beer you order.

One that’s quite hoppy?

edit: too slow with the hop joke.

I used to live next door to a pub… Never bought a glass in my life from all the glasses left on my wall and chucked over the hedge.

Always wanted a strongbow glass, never do get one being into archery.

Mjølner, our Viking-inspired restaurant and bar in Sydney

Man, that place sounds poncy: “The value of these knives and the leather roll in which they came were about $2500 and will take us a couple of months to replace.”

Asking for it really

The beer had better be welt-asty.

Does it lack sole or is it quite vibramt?

Can you take them back if they are the wrong prescription?

You have your beer served in glasses?

How, like… TOTALLY 20th century

I have my artisan craft ale served in an old miners boot, I exchanged for a glass in a bar in Ghent, a blender, a galvanised bucket, or a vintage toby jug. If I’m feeling more conventional I may possibly accept a jam jar

Cheers!

We have a cupboard full of Mooserwirt glasses which have been collected over the years.

I’m quite pleased with my Krombacher pint glass. I’m not sure I actually stole it though. The beer was that expensive, I thought the glass was included…

I’ve got an Espresso cup from Bar Italia, does that count?

FWIW I got given a Kwak glass as a present. And it’s a stupid design, no idea why anyone would want to steal one.

I find the the half pint peroni glass is satisfying for supping out of.
People do a roaring trade in borrowed glasses on ebay, maybe that’s one for the legit income thread.

my favourite coffee mug is a 16oz starbucks mug. Two friends of mine turned up at my flat with pizza and the mug whilst studying. I hadn’t been to the studio in a couple of days and they wanted to make sure i was working/ not dead. It’s my favourite for sentimentel reasons, also it’s huge.

I can only assume thay paid for said mug.

I’ve got a few glasses, er liberated from various pubs over the years, the best one is a glass Fullers ESB tankard-style glass that’s really heavy, that one I got in return for a donation in the air ambulance box.

Don’t give out fancy glasses to drunk people. Like kebabs, they are simply irresistible to the pickled mind. I’ve never once borrowed any glasses whilst sober, but anything vaguely different from the bog standard pint glass would end up in my house if I was hammered. Just stop serving alcohol, simples.

I’ve a couple of 1/2 pint glasses from a well know Northumbrian place that ended up in the car. They have a logo/name of a road construction/maintenance company on them. 😆

Will I go to prison again?

Robbos morzine mutzig

If anyone has “borrowed” a Pelforth Brune glass (with the bubble in the base), I’d make an offer!

Can you take them back if they are the wrong prescription?

I keep taking my glasses back at the local pub but each new one they give me just seem to make everything more blurry.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/innis-and-gunn-to-give-away-free-pint-glasses-from-midday-1-4447817

heh, the only time Ive left a bar with glasses they were a bribe to get rid of us 🙂

We had been in the bar in Brussels since midday and it was midnight and they wanted to close early 🙂

Paying a deposit on glasses is quite common in Germany. You pay for your drink plus a euro and you get a little plastic chip which when you bring your glass back with the chip you get your euro back. The chip is to stop people stealing other people’s glasses for the euro deposit. Seems to work pretty well here.

You pay for your drink plus a euro

But a nice beer glass is worth way more than a euro.

If I ever take the car over to Holland, I’m going load up with a few crates of Grolsch from the supermarket. The flip top bottles and crate are worth more s/h in the UK, than the the purchase price and deposit in Holland. Free beer!