Today, unless people drink from the bottle or can, beer is almost exclusively consumed from glassware. Historically, in the farmer's culture, glasses were next to non-existent. Instead, the farmers had an astonishing array of drinking vessels. While the almost endless variations of these are fascinating in themselves, they are perhaps the most interesting for what they tell us about the drinking culture of earlier times.

Lars Marius Garshol explores the variety of farmhouse drinking vessels, their meaning, and their decorations which are also fascinating and informative, and even include a separate literary genre of beer bowl rhymes.

Lars Marius Garshol used to be a software engineer, but he gave that up to work full-time on researching and writing about traditional farmhouse brewing. He's spent the last decade researching various aspects of farmhouse brewing throughout northern Europe. He is the author of Larsblog, a blog devoted to sharing his discoveries and travels, Historical Brewing Techniques: The Lost Art of Farmhouse Brewing, and a book on Lithuanian beer. He lives with his wife and daughter in Rælingen, Norway.