Query--Why do you folks continue to drink your wonderful bee

[Jamo]

Seriously--such great brews--and you fail to chill them? Are they considered a warming beverage like hot tea or something? I know you have refrigerators--I've seen them over there.

[Jnex26]

Good Ale's are served at Celler tempreture, artifically cooling the beed ruins the flavour.

(Can you Guess i used to work in a pub) Altohugh what i'm doing up at 05:46 in the morning is beyond me ;(

[Jamo]

I could understand celler temp--but the pubs seem to serve it warmer, or so it seems. Don't get me wrong--I acquired the taste over there--but it does not refresh as a good cold one. Curious more than anything. Do you drink it "warm" at home?

[Jnex26]

It Depends on what i'm drinking.
(Home Advise) - Pubs will generally use the celler as the chiller)
Whisky should be room temp and chilled with ice.
Ale is kept in a Cool shaded area (Garage best for this and great if you need a drink while cobra building)
Larger Chilled in the Fridge and let sit for 5 mins before opening.
Beer Chilled in the Frezer for 10 Mins before opening.
Stout (Guiness) Same as been but only for 6 Mins

And would you belive it I really don't drink that much. !!

P.S Alot of UK pubs actually will put Budweiser in with largers and not beers. as monty python one said.

Why is American Beer like making love in a canoe.
Because It's ####ing close to water

(Disclaimer - No Offence intended)

[maxGD059]

Its to do with the fact that our bitter (well some of it anyway) is Real Ale. That is to say it is living with bits of bugs & debris in the bottom that provide its flavour. Thus if you chill the ba**s off it & stuff it full of CO2 then it just don't taste right. The drawback is that the beer just doesn't keep very well, so you just have to finish the cask up in a few days - what a tragedy

Cheers

Richard
(It'll only be a 5 minute job)

[Miket]

Jamo

Yes, we do have fridges, but ours are only small.

Obviously yours in California are much BIGGER than ours and are capable of storing larger amounts of beer and food.

[Roscoe]

I think the warm beer thing goes back to when Lucas was making refrigerators. It's just an old custom out of respect for Lucas.

Roscoe
:7 :7 :7

[interestedparty]

Americans don't have beer, they have lager, which it is appropriate top serve chilled so as to mask the lack of flavour. Englishmen drink ale, which should not be colder that cellar temperature. It all has to do with where the frermentation takes place. Ales ferment at the top, lagers at the bottom. Lagers can ferment at lower temperatures than ales, which is a good thing, but the trouble is they taste like dilute sh!t
John

[callum]

I truth we drink both and too many here have been converted to the lager school. Beer or ale is not drunk 'warm' - it simply does not need to be chilled to the point at which you can't taste the difference to make it palatable by numbing the taste buds Buds geddit?) Mild beers low in alcohol were a great way for agricultural workers to have clean water in the field and still stay fit for an afternoon's work before fridges were dreamt of. Try lager at room temperature and there is no contest as to which brew tastes better - which may be a lot to do with the yeasts used to ferment cold (lager meaning 'kept' beer) as opposed to the quick hot fermentation we go in for. Oh and you don't find too much use of seaweed alginates in real beer to give the nice foamy head that some lager drinkers like - never mind the fish guts (isinglas) used to clarify real beer in the barrel. Each to their own blend - a bit like the virtue of putting Yankee iron in a Brit chassis.

[bonyhadi]

warm beer and cold women ? nah, I am sure that isn't it:7