A reluctant appreciation for machine-made glass from across the pond

NJKLAGT · Jul 30, 2017

A love-hate relationship! I have never been fooled so many times by anything as much as this glass. The clean rich colour, crudity, and bizarre characteristics of these things get me every time. When you've got a bottle in the hole you can quickly tell if it's machine-made or not - if it's from over here. But get a sight of the base or body of one of these things, and your mind starts racing! The bubbles always look so much like those of a blown bottle, and the seams are always so chunky, and the machine doesn't leave any scar or mark on the bottom, and so you can't help but think it's some nice earlier beauty. I've mistaken these things for just about every desirable bottle out there, haha, I thought the amber beer was a Saratoga or something when I saw that whittle!

They are pretty though. It's not exactly what I'm looking for, but I can't resist taking them home!