Drinking Temperature.

Paleman · Post by **Paleman** » Tuesday Aug 23, 2005 2:03 pm

How cold, warm do you guys like to drink your brews ? I know with a lot of people this is going to depend on, beer type, ambiant temperatures and time of year ext.....

For me i'm a bit of an ice cold junkie though. No matter what beer i'm having, more often than not it will go into the freezer for a quick stint after coming out of the fridge, i even do it with Stouts, then poured into a chilled glass.

I may be killing some hop flavour, but an ice cold home brew is the bees knees, escpesially after being flogged for a day at work.

Post by **Oliver** » Tuesday Aug 23, 2005 4:13 pm

Paleman,

I like my Aussie lagers such as VB and Carlton as cold as possible, preferably so cold as to make them tasteless.

Good lagers I like well chilled.

Ales I drink a little warmer and stouts warmer again, in both cases to bring out their floral, hoppy character.

Cheers,

Oliver

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Tuesday Aug 23, 2005 6:21 pm

I run a general rule that the darker the beer the less cold it needs to be.

An esky packed with lagers and ice is a great way to enjoy them in the Summer time. A stout from the garage in winter is very easy to enjoy too.

But as I have only one beer fridge that also has to store food, milk, yeast samples and hop bags, all beers are enjoyed at fridge temp.

Cheers,

Greg.

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Wednesday Aug 24, 2005 2:17 am

Cold,

36 deg F

(4 deg C)

I love it when my forehead hurts from the brain freeze.

Dogger

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Wednesday Aug 24, 2005 3:00 am

I like to drink lager nice and cold. It's one of the reasons I'm going to start bottling as well as using kegs. Bottles are much easier to get in the fridge. The kegs will be used for darker beers.

bobbioli · Post by **bobbioli** » Friday Aug 26, 2005 10:35 am

I don't think there is anything better than a nice cold beer. mmmm beer. But I guess the darker ones not quite as cold.

Wassa · Post by **Wassa** » Friday Aug 26, 2005 2:00 pm

I have a simple rule with all beer...colder is better.

I like my light coloured beers straight out of the ice box or put in the freezer to get them really cold and my Tooheys dark ales straight out of the fridge.

As for the pommy way of drinking beer at room temperature......no thanks

scblack · Post by **scblack** » Friday Aug 26, 2005 3:58 pm

Here's a question - if I have a nice cold beer, but for some STUPID reason the beer takes a while to drink (it has to be very stupid to slow my beer drinking

).

Now the beer is warmer and flatter.

Is it just that the time has allowed the fizz to escape, or is it that the warmer temperature has fizzed it out?

Or a bit of both?

Goatee · Post by **Goatee** » Friday Aug 26, 2005 4:04 pm

do a test. Put a open beer in a fridge and one outside, trying them at the same time intervals. You will have your answer

Post by **Oliver** » Saturday Aug 27, 2005 1:46 pm

scblack wrote:Here's a question - if I have a nice cold beer, but for some STUPID reason the beer takes a while to drink (it has to be very stupid to slow my beer drinking ).

Now the beer is warmer and flatter.

Is it just that the time has allowed the fizz to escape, or is it that the warmer temperature has fizzed it out?

Or a bit of both?

From what I understand, it's both.

The beer will begin going flat as soon as you remove the cap. Plus, the warmer a liquid, the less dissolved oxygen there will be in it. For instance, boiling water drives off almost all oxygen from water.

Oliver