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[Brett Dikeman]

At 8:37 AM +0100 2/12/02, Phil Payne wrote:

>And we drink our beer at the same temperature that we drink red wine,
>for the same reason - we like to taste it.  American beer is drunk
>below 4 degrees Celcius because human taste buds cease to function at
>5 degrees.  Our beer tastes good warm or cold - try yours warm.


Stolen from the Olympus cameras list.  It was amusing that the link
in my previous post, designed for chuckles, actually returned the
correct answer as its first item.  Ahh, the web, it works in
mysterious ways.


"Actually, beer tastes best at the temperature at which it was fermented.
Most American beer (Budweiser, Miller, Pabst, etc etc) is Pilsner (a
form of Lager beer) which uses Lager yeast.  This type of beer is
typically fermented around 33-40 deg F, thus it tastes better at that
temperature.  Most English beer (traditionally, at least) is Ale, which
uses (you guessed it) Ale yeast.  This type beer is typically fermented
around 50-60 deg F or warmer, and thus tastes better at those
temperatures.  If you drink Lager at Ale temps, it tastes stale.  If you
drink Ale at Lager temps, it loses most of its flavor.  When I went to
Ireland a few years back (when I was brewing my own beer and a big fan
of stouts and dark ales), there were adverts for Budweiser *everywhere*,
from the luggage carts in the airport to the subways.  When I asked a
local what their favorite beer was, he replied "Budweiser".  I said
"you have got to be joking.  Here you are in the home of Guiness (sp?)
and you like Bud?" and he said yes.  Just goes to show, you like what
you don't have or what is new to you.  For them, Guiness was the old
standard, Bud was interesting and trendy."

Brett
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