Re: Warm Beer?

It depends on what you mean by warm. If you mean 70F + then no beer is going to taste its optimum at that temperature.

Without starting a bun fight, even us Brits do NOT drink our beer warm. The myth that English beer tastes best at room temperature is at best bull$h!t.

The ideal temp for an English beer cellar is 12 - 14C (53 - 57F), so that beer at point of dispense will be

Certainly not in the nitro cans- don't they foam up like a 5th grade science experiment if they're not very cold?

Well, at the risk of sounding like an ex-president, it depends on your definition of "had" and of "warm".

Does "had" mean "drank" (as in "I had a couple of HopDevils last night") OR does it mean "stored" or "kept" or "bought" (" All I had in the refrigerator was some 90 Minute Ale, and I didn't feel like going downstairs where I had some Bigfoot in the beer cellar, so I went to the store and they had some Red Seal in the cooler and they had some Jever and Pilsner Urquell on the floor.")

Are you asking what beers you can buy "off the floor (i.e., not from a cooler- what retailer would call "warm")" or what beers you can store at home unrefrigerated or which beers you can imbibe without a cooler?

And by warm, do you mean "not ice cold" or "room temperature" or "heated to above room temp."?

I think it's safe to say that ALL beers (yeah, even bland International Light Lagers) benefit from being consumed at a temperature higher than most US bar/store coolers and refrigerators. A good book on beer (see Michael Jackson's ULTIMATE BEER as one example) will usually give you specific suggestions for serving temperatures for particular brands/styles. In UB, most of the beers, for instance, have a suggested serving temperature of 48-65 degrees (generally lower for pilsners/lagers, higher for ales, higher still for many stouts and porters), which, to most Americans at least, is colder than room temperature BUT to the average "ice cold BUD" drinker would be considered "warm".

I have no trouble drinking any beers noted above at "garage temperature" most of the year (summer excluded, perhaps, for the pilsners) when I've been too lazy to carry the cases from the garage into the mud-room's beer 'frig or downstairs into the cellar.

What is a 'bun fight'? Leo

Er no, but I suppose it wouldn't be pleasant. leo

In my beercollection I've got LIEFMANS GLUHKRIEK from LIEFMANS OUDENAARDE belgium You'r supposed to drink it hot but I tasted it unheated. Harry Pinkster Beercollector

Unibroue, up there in the frozen Great White North of Canada, makes a similar beer, Quelque Chose, meant to be served in a similar fashion.

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