Cold Ale in pubs

Totally agree twizzle sir. If ale has a hint of cold about it it's a no from me. Has to be warm.

The colder it is the less you can appreciate the taste. It's why lager & cider companies encourage ice - to make up for the lack of taste.

I used to enjoy a pint or two of Guinness until they brought out the extra cold version. Most pubs used to serve both types but I've noticed that more and more are selling the extra cold only. It is totally devoid of any taste and I refuse to drink it.

Just had a couple of pints of warm Abbots before dinner.Absolutely spot on.

Indian Pale Ale my favourite.

At the risk of pronouncing heresy and I will say it for the record...

This house is of the belief that ale can be served cool from a cellar!

There I said it!

Think this Whisperingdeath fella is on the wind up

Beer festivals use coolers to bring the beer down to, well, room temperature.
The only thing worse than cold ale is warm ale.

I think if the beer is too warm in summer it can go off is'all I am saying! I have drunk English beer and Irish stout in Fiji and it is not good!

Thank you Keith!

mac has it, more hops more taste, they will stand a good cooling imo.

The temperature of real ale is a very sensitive subject.  You must NOT serve it cold  - there are clear guidlines on it and cellars(the old fashioned way) are kept at particular temperatures for it.

There are such things as flash coolers above the cellars and all sorts of other newer systems to cool lager and real ale too etc  but you must NEVER over-cool real ale.  Basically, the colder the less taste.

That's better, moisok.
Not very interesting, but better

does me head in when beer not served at room temp. go to states and everything ( even micro brew pubs )  has got to be ice cold as though its a good thing

yes study you lager nazi, I do nose, only true brits drink proper ale

the others are something else

all part of the foreign invasion

hope this helps

freeze the bolls off the stuff - only good for tipping over your head in this temperature

its the sort of tasteless rubbish the eu wants to force us to bathe in

superb stuff

cold drinks beat hot drinks.

CAMRA already on the trail of Callisto   ho ho

bring it on you oap sippers.

you will end up squashed by a phalanx of large bearded males with half pints of ale in their hands

use finnish

ill throw a kilo of ice at them.

you wicked person

Its a well proven scientific fact that all incestuous behavior occurs due to drinkink warm ale.

use got any links to that


sorry   but they always say that to me when I post stuff

for the love of god dont google it.

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If it comes out of the cellar it is probably going to be at the right temperature.  If we are talking ale.  The room temperature thing is a bit of a misnomer because
traditionally it would have been at room temperature but because we are now a nation of softies, 'room temperature' means 70C to some people.

Different styles of beer including lager styles should be served at different temperatures.