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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Cold or cool? If beer is chilled too much you can't taste it properly, but obviously it needs to be cool to avoid it flattening rapidly in the glass.
I can't comment on the USA as I've never been there, but in the UK, chilled beer came in with the rise in low-quality bulk bitter and lager of rather bland flavours anyway. The conglomerate, big-name brewers made selling it refrigerated a selling-point, pushing it as somehow "modern" and "fashionable". Think of the Heineken fountain designed to condense the air's moisture on its surface to show how cold it is.
I think refrigerated beer is also a big thing in Australia, reflecting the aridity of much of the country.
In the end it's all a matter of personal taste, but I go for well-kept, cool, flavour-full cask-conditioned bitters - aka "real ales". (Not "craft beers", as I am neither an American nor American resident!)
I am lucky in that the only pub still open close to home, is a thriving free-house that sells a variety of cask ales, three on a time normally, as well the usual keg bitter, lager, stout and cider. Good food too And in easy walking distance of home!
I can't comment on the USA as I've never been there, but in the UK, chilled beer came in with the rise in low-quality bulk bitter and lager of rather bland flavours anyway. The conglomerate, big-name brewers made selling it refrigerated a selling-point, pushing it as somehow "modern" and "fashionable". Think of the Heineken fountain designed to condense the air's moisture on its surface to show how cold it is.
I think refrigerated beer is also a big thing in Australia, reflecting the aridity of much of the country.
In the end it's all a matter of personal taste, but I go for well-kept, cool, flavour-full cask-conditioned bitters - aka "real ales". (Not "craft beers", as I am neither an American nor American resident!)
I am lucky in that the only pub still open close to home, is a thriving free-house that sells a variety of cask ales, three on a time normally, as well the usual keg bitter, lager, stout and cider. Good food too And in easy walking distance of home!