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- Dan
- Father, musician, trail runner, reader, geographer, craft beer aficionado, meditator.
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Great visual aid Dan! I love the photo feature on blogspot. It is very cold and I am slightly puzzled by how cold it is for December. I can't wait for that Jan. thaw. What does hot beer taste like? People drink hot cider, hot chocolate, and hot coffee; so why not hot beer? That would be an interesting experiment. Would you try it on a dare? How about a double dog dare?
Well, traditionally, Europeans don't drink beer (or pretty much of anything) that is refrigerated (beyond maybe just being in a cellar). So, room temperature is pretty much the norm for brewhauses and casks.
Not sure if there's something about bottles & cans that makes them need to be refrigerated, or if it's just an Americanized, macro-brew way of doing it. In any event, I always throw mine in the fridge. Maybe something to experiment around with in the future. Room temperature, that is. Not sure if I'm willing to take up the drinking of HOT beer just on a dare. Not so much out of fear of the taste but out of the fear of waste of a good beer.
If the beer does not taste good, could you place it in freezer for a while and still enjoy the beer without it going to waste? Are you chicken? :)
I don't think extreme hot to extreme cold is good for the taste of anything, much less beer.
Tell you what-you serve me a hot beer, I'll drink it. Just put a can of Hamms or some shit on an oven burner and I'll drink every hot drop. But the beer will not come from my stash.
Deal. You hold beer as if where the Holy Grail. Funny.
Waste not want not.
Despite my lack of enthusiasm for beer, I had sever good beers in Europe, many of them warm. While I prefer my Leiney's cold, I tend to drink slower than many, and I am often finishing a room-temp beer. Doesn't bother me. But, yeah cold to hot to cold=bad beer.
I think that I will conduct the experiment for myself. My hypothesis is that the taste will not change all that much, but it may get flatter throughout the experiment. I will put on my brave face and attempt to live the experiment and report my findings at some post in the near future. My beer of choice will be that of the Canadian variety.
It may also matter HOW you heat it. Microwaving coffee, for instance (though it's sometimes necessary) profoundly changes the taste, and not for the better.
Two questions:
1. You gonna drink it HOT, or just warm?
2. Why are you doing this again? To ward off the bitter cold?
I am curious as to why people don't drink very warm beer. I don't like drinks that burn my mouth, but I will drink it very warm. I will warm it up in a tea kettle. Why choose hot chocolate when you can choose hot beer on those cold winter days. Maybe it will be nasty, or maybe the world has never tried it? I will be the world's test rat. I can't imagine that it is any worse thatn tea. Hold your breath and I will report in a few days. I am also doing this for kicks and giggles.
I await the results of this experiment with great interest.
If anyone has any official source indicating that your standard bottled beer is intended to be consumed at room temp., I'd find that interesting, as well.
I recommend a creamy stout for this experiment.
Warm it slowly over low heat. Give it a chance to get used to the temperature. NO MICROWAVING.
The world awaits this bizzare experiment. No worries, I will not microwave the beer. I will use my tea kettle over low heat.
If I were you, I wouldn't transfer it to another container until you're about to drink it. I'd worry about how that part of the process would affect the experiment. Plus, if your tea kettle ends up retaining a beer smell, your wife might not be too pleased.
I'd just set the can right in a sauce pan and gradually warm it up. When it finally gets hot enough, then you could pour it into a glass for drinking.
A mug or coffee cup.
Yeah. If I pour it into a glass, my hands will get hot and I will drop it. I will put it into my Smokey mug, the one were the trees disappear when it's hot and the turn green when it is cool.
That reminds me of when me & Gibb & Mark Anderson all lived together. Mark had this Farrah Fawcett stein and he told us that when you poured hot liquid in, her shirt disappeared. You never saw two guys throw a kettle on the stove faster.
Very funny! I wish I could have seen it. Bummer!
Was he lying? I assume so.
Just the fact of a FF stein is quite astounding.
Yes, he was lying. Just as he was when he told us that if you cut a slit in a bannana and inserted a stick of Fruit Stripe gum in it, then put it in the freezer for a month, it would take on hallucigenetic properties.
In fact, it turns black and spoils.
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