What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

I love german beer. I have a load of paper-thin 200ml Kolsch glasses here from an old German friend from Cologne who used to live in a bar there. He brought them over along with a barrel of the good stuff last time he was here. 200ml is the standard size there, two to three mouthfuls typically then I'l need a refill which keeps the bar staff busy particularly when it's always table service and you pay your bill on leaving. They circulate constantly with a tray of fresh ones and keep bringing replacements and marking your beermat till you signal "enough" by putting the beermat on top of your glass. If you don't know that you can get accidentally pissed pretty quick as they relentlessly replace your beer. Fun times.

He tells me that really valued customers get the ultimate honour of the 100ml glass which ensures that every other mouthful is the first from a freshly poured new glass.

genius.

Have been to this one a couple of times in Koln. Not hugely into beer so tend to drink spirits but they have great food so have a couple of the beers while I eat it.

http://www.paeffgen-koelsch.de/

But yeah they had a handful of quirky customs, the beer you get if you are inside they don't sell in bottles/barrels/ect so the only place you can drink it was inside and then only from a 200ml glass which given the size of the brewery they keep going is impressive. If you finish your drink then another is put down for you within moments unless you put a coaster ontop of the glass, you can say nien/no but then another of the staff will pass by and you need to repeat over and over.

Is a great way of doing things imo, no standing waving notes at bar staff or having to leave mid meal to go over to the bar like is often the case at a pub lunch.