![]() Get a Boot of Beer and a circle of friends around the table and play…Take a good long swig of the Beer (no whimpy little sips), and pass it along. Remember, if it is your turn to drink, always point the tip of the boot UP until you have reached the bottom, then rotate… otherwise you could end up with a face full of beer. Is it a glass? Is it a mug? Is it a boot? Who cares! As long as there is beer in it! In recent years, the Beer Boot has become a drinking challenge or game. The German Glass Beer Boot Mug Drinking Challenge No German soldier would be stupid enough to get his boot soaking wet before a cold battle. ![]() Why didn’t they just pass around the bottle of beer? 2. This story makes no sense to me because 1. ![]() Soldiers have been celebrating victory with a beer boot ever since.Īnother story tells that in WWI, before battle, German Soldiers would share a last beer that they passed around in a boot, because they didn’t have a glass. But after they did, good sense prevailed, and the general saved his boot leather (and avoided the unpleasant flavor of feet in his beer) by asking a local glass maker to create a boot shaped beer glass. Over a century ago, according to legend, a Prussian general promised his troops that he would drink beer from his boot if they won a battle. Best of all, I found out where to get your OWN Beer Boot for your home bar! Or maybe get one for that special friend with the hollow leg… (like my buddy, Cuddles…) (I must go digging in the attic for the photo album of that trip!) Also important… how to drink from it without getting all wet. And I learned the rules for the game to play with your German Beer Boot! (warning, there might be some drinking involved). It turns out that there is a story behind it (of course there is). I’m happy to report that my Texan friend won hands down (several times…) His prize? a Beer Boot to take home!īut I did wonder… Why? How? WHAT possessed anyone to drink from a boot? (and what came first as a drinking vessel, the glass boot or the actual boot that someone’s foot was in? ick!!) I remember the first time I saw the German Beer Boot… I was 18 years old in Heidelberg, and a group of friends and I were in a Gasthaus where a Beer Boot competition was happening.
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