Warm Beer

[petrostar]

Am I the only one here who really enjoys drinking a room temperature bottle conditioned beer? I find I get such a strong hop flavor/aroma when they are not cold. They taste good cold too but i actually find I enjoy some of my beers more at room temp. Please tell me I'm not crazy!!!!

 

[Taypo]

Not crazy at all. There's a recommended serving temp chart floating around out here somewhere, if I recall. I prefer my hefe and wheat on the room temp side, my stouts and porters a little cool but not ice cold...

 

[Tinga]

I definitely don't like them ice cold but that warm would be a little weird for me personally.

 

[GuldTuborg]

You're not crazy. I find most beers taste best around 50-60F. I'll change that a bit depending upon what I'm drinking, but that's my preferred range. Now if you come back and tell me "room temp" meand 80F where you live, I might have to call you strange after all.

 

[BetterSense]

Now that it's winter again, I've been drinking my beer with no refrigeration. Just keeping the bottles in a cupboard near the slab floor keeps them cool enough for me. It's another thing in the summer when it's hot everywhere...I don't need by beer to be COLD, but it's a problem if it's actually warm or hot.

 

[rjsnau]

I had an Oktoberfest that I opened on accident at 65 degrees or even a bit warmer and I have to day I liked it. The flavors really shined though.

 

[landshark]

People call me crazy for drinking beer at room temp all the time. Nobody understands how I can take and APA at 60 and drink it.

Maybe we all are Crazy.

 

[Piratwolf]

People call me crazy for drinking beer at room temp all the time. Nobody understands how I can take and APA at 60 and drink it.

Maybe we all are Crazy.

It's everyone else, man, not us!

And I think most places serve their beer way too cold. It's like people who put good chocolate in the fridge...can't taste all the great flava til it warms up a bit.

 

[birvine]

I made and kegged an AG Amarillo Cream of Three Crops earlier in the fall. As it sat and conditioned, I popped on the picnic tap to see what it was like since I already had a Cream of Three and Orfy's Hobgoblin clone in the kegerator. What I got was a glass of beautifully hopped, delicately flavoured beer that I serve at cellar temperature. It is a hit. I'll be doing more of it since our basement is usually on the cool (but not cold) side in the range of 60°F.

B

 

[Rocky-Mountain_sunrise]

I enjoyed a dark fruity and very hoppy beer in Germany served like an ale-flip without the egg. This happened when I was 21. I am now 43 and can't remember the name or what the barperson did to produce it other than the sizzle sound it produced when he dunked the red hot poker in the stein.

 

[amcclai7]

The only beer that should be served cold is any beer that you don't actually want to taste. This is a bit dorky I know, but quite a few times I've been drinking an IPA that's been sitting out for a while and thought to myself, "This really is the perfect temperature." Well, several of those times I've went and grabbed my thermometer and tested just to see. Almost every time it was right around 60F.