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In periods of intense heat, like the one that is currently suffocating France, we tend to go heavy on the aperitifs to give ourselves the impression of being refreshed. And this is especially true when we enjoy beer. Except that alcohol should be avoided during the hottest hours of the day to avoid dehydration. The Japanese, for their part, have found a solution with a glass called “slow beer”. We explain.
We know how much the shape and also the thinness of the walls of a glass play a big part in the experience of tasting wine and any other alcoholic beverage. But for reasons that are more related to medical precautions, a new silhouette has just been imagined in Japan. If we already know the hourglass-shaped glass for tasting the famous Belgian kwak, the Yona Yona Ale brand has pushed the line even further by thinning the middle of the container to almost uniformly take up the curve of this time counter. And this does not only serve to grip the glass more easily…
The goal is simple to grasp: to prevent you from drinking your foam too quickly. And in this period of intense heat, we can imagine this type of tool as a good way to not let yourself be overwhelmed by your desire for refreshment (remember, there is nothing better than water to hydrate yourself when it’s hot!).
The concept of the glass is pushed to such an extent that it is difficult to drink its contents without constraint. In fact, we taste the first part of the hourglass, and then the elixir present in the lower part remains trapped, forcing the consumer to raise his elbow with great will to sip it. It is not for nothing that the glass was baptized “yukkuri”. This means in Japanese: the slow beer glass. The whole interest of this unusual container is to relieve the liver.
This glass is definitely not an April Fool’s joke (it’s the middle of summer), since it was hand-crafted by glass artisans. It is not (yet) available for sale in Japanese stores, but is made available to customers at a series of points of sale and bars in Tokyo. If you don’t have the opportunity to fly to the land of the rising sun this summer, there are other, easier solutions to cool off during the heatwave: drink water and keep the windows and shutters closed during the hottest hours of the day, or give yourself the feeling of refreshment by enjoying a little ice cream.