>Lucas lore like why the English drink warm beer etc.
I have only visited Britain once, but never had a "warm beer".
Just a couple of facts about British beer temperatures:
First, the myth that the British serve their beer at "room temperature"
is false. Yet there is an exception: Some of the fuller flavoured beers,
dark ales and stouts are actually preferred to be served at or near room
temperature. This is done so you can taste them to their fullest.
The British standard temperature for serving beer in most British pubs is
between 50 and 55 degrees F. and is referred to as "cellar temperature".
All British beers have various flavours, and differing aromas which become
lost at lower temperatures. Historically, British beers were taken as a
meal, as a "workman's lunch", so beer is still, to some degree, looked upon
as a food.
Chilling to "ice cold" retards the release of aromas, and hides the taste.
Now why would you do that?
Ed Bratt
Regina Saskatchewan
1976 TR6
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