People drink both hot and ice tea, hot and ice coffee, and hot and cold chocolate milk; why not beer?

@JohnnyNoir True Guiness is great at room temperature

@JimboSaturn that's really the only way to drink it

@jackjjackson

Looks straightforward enough to me! Having a problem understanding my comment?
Proof that hot beer was once "a thing".

I can’t imagine drinking it. @rinkydinkydoink

@jackjjackson

I'd give it a try but I can't really imagine all of a sudden it would catch on. With anyone.

@rocknroll

I'm pretty well set in my ways, too.

@ArishMell I said room temperature, not warm. And yes I believe its' a dying taste, isn't it?

@JimboSaturn Ah - but "room temperature" can be too warm sometimes! Certainly could in that pub!

"A dying taste"? Not sure about that but it seems fewer young people are drinking alcohol these days - probably due to the price more than fashion; at typically over £4 a pint.

Unfortunately a lot of pubs have closed, driven out of business by ever-increasing costs (the profit on drink is low, too), a business-rates system that seems to help no-one, and reputedly by many people preferring to drink at home, perhaps with a few friends, rather in the social setting of a pub.

Some pubs have also been destroyed in murky circumstances, perhaps bought by property-speculators who think if the premises happen to burn down or somehow fall down, the best thing to do is replace it with expensive houses.

Though the oddest I recall, probably twenty years ago now, was one bought by some obscure little amateur church group who needed a meeting-hall, or so they claimed. I've often wondered if the motive was really to destroy the pub, the meeting-hall conversion being secondary.

I know of two others - I am told one was trading profitably - bought by the rapacious Co-op supermarket chain purely to turn into shops, yet barely a mile apart in the same housing estate! You might remember the folk-rock band Picketty Witch: it named itself after The Picket Witch Inn that was subsequently bought by Tesco to turn into a shop, too, though probably some thirty years ago now. These three are all in the SW English town of Yeovil. I think the church-group was in Martock, only a few miles away from them, but I don't know the outcome there.

@ArishMell What a terrible shame you are losing your pubs! It what I always likes about the UK and wish we had the same here in Canada!

@bijouxbroussard

I know, eh? I quick search will say hot beer was once a thing.

@bijouxbroussard Ew!!