I'm a member of a British brew forum also and they find it unimaginable that we'd drink our beer cold.
I think for us on this side it's more of just how we've grown up, but it's also hot down south here, and I enjoy a cold beer despite the style.
I do realize that too cold and it numbs the taste buds a bit, and now that I've become a non BMC drinker I don't need for it to be ice cold.
But the idea of drinking cask ale at ~65* and with very low carbonation seemed quite odd to me. But then I had a cask ale at a local brewpub last night. I can't say it was 65* (maybe 60* or so), but it was rather pleasant, and didn't seem too warm as I finished my meal before finishing off the beer.
It also seemed a little more carbonated than I thought it should be. I thought cask ales were generally about 1.7 volumes of carbonation?
Now that I'm making plans to build a fermentation chamber I'm considering keeping some beers in there, and maybe even looking into a proper cask to serve by gravity. Does anyone else do this?
What is the temperature point in which the taste buds begin to numb?
I think for us on this side it's more of just how we've grown up, but it's also hot down south here, and I enjoy a cold beer despite the style.
I do realize that too cold and it numbs the taste buds a bit, and now that I've become a non BMC drinker I don't need for it to be ice cold.
But the idea of drinking cask ale at ~65* and with very low carbonation seemed quite odd to me. But then I had a cask ale at a local brewpub last night. I can't say it was 65* (maybe 60* or so), but it was rather pleasant, and didn't seem too warm as I finished my meal before finishing off the beer.
It also seemed a little more carbonated than I thought it should be. I thought cask ales were generally about 1.7 volumes of carbonation?
Now that I'm making plans to build a fermentation chamber I'm considering keeping some beers in there, and maybe even looking into a proper cask to serve by gravity. Does anyone else do this?
What is the temperature point in which the taste buds begin to numb?