Warm Ale

H.O.T.A.S.

What's the BGRH stance on warm ale? Was over in Bath for the weekend and was knocking back a fair few of these and they are pretty damn tasty. Also old style pumps FTW!

Don1

The thoughts of any non ice-cold alcoholic beverage with the exception of hot winter drinks, disgusts me. That's just me though.

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It isn't exactly "warm" tbh. Proper, real ale, is served at room temperature. I drink it myself. London Pride, Bishops Finger etc etc.

I hate this thing of being served freezing stuff in pubs.

Guinness extra cold for instance. ffs. You can't taste the stuff, it freezes your gums.

Freezing cold beers. They are served so cold to mask the manky taste most of them have. Carslberg, bud and the likes.

Nope, give me a real ale any day. At room temp.

Karl Hungus

It's very nice, I've had a few warm ales before, and it's something I'd recommend you fellow brothers try.

ApeXaviour

Room temp ale = more flavour = more manliness.

Colder = less flavour = more metro piss beers like bud-lite, labbats ice, coors light.

It's the same with whiskey, good whiskey I can only drink neat. Not so good whiskey needs ice though

Baudelaire

I can't think of anything more disgusting than warm beer, beer should be chilled, no exceptions!

Zulu

Fridge mine up please.
I can drink it warm, but I'd much prefer it cold. The glass should sweat.

FunkZ

Aye it has to be cold man. It's the only way...

ApeXaviour

women...

Reg'stoy

I'm a Guinness man back home but when I over in Wales visiting a friend I have to say I'm partial to their Cask Ales you get in some of the pubs. Try Brains best bitter beautiful if you get a chance, which for some strange reason I can drink by the bucket load.

Baudelaire

ApeXaviour wrote: »

women...

Well you're the one that needs his beer to be room temprature so it doesn't hurt his wickle tummy

Tom Dunne

ApeXaviour wrote: »

women...

Careful now.

There is nothing nicer than a cold beer on a warm Summer's day. I always associate sitting in the sun, having a "few schoops" as as the ultimate in holiday experience (well that and a dose of the trots). I must admit the thought of room temperature ale doesn't appeal to me, but I would like to give it a try.

Can you get them over here in the off licenses? Any more recommendations?

H.O.T.A.S.

Brain's is indeed a tasty brew, Tribute is also nice. You can get Theskston's Old Peculier in most good off licences in Ireland

ApeXaviour

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Careful now.

There is nothing nicer than a cold beer on a warm Summer's day.

On a hot summers day, a nice refrigerated german/czech pilsner goes down very well indeed. It's February though, and in general a cold english ale is a travesty... Might as well put sugar in it.

Baudelaire wrote:

Well you're the one that needs his beer to be room temprature so it doesn't hurt his wickle tummy

What's the matter bruno, afraid you might taste something?

Baudelaire

ApeXaviour wrote: »

What's the matter bruno, afraid you might taste something?

"Bruno"? I don't get it anyway no I just don't like the thoughts of warm beer, I think it's just one of those things that should be cold and besides I don't like ale.

ApeXaviour

Lager is not meant to be drank warm. If you don't like ale (which every true man should) then why the heck are ya posting in this thread?

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Tom Dunne wrote: »

Can you get them over here in the off licenses? Any more recommendations?

Most of the good offies will stock a good range of ales. If they are in the fridge, hotfoot it out of the place.

The Shepherd Neame range is really lovely. Particularly Bishop's Finger.

I already mentioned Fuller's London Pride, this is my favourite.

Old Speckled Hen is nice too. As is Old Peculier. This one being a dark ale nearly black in colour. Very tasty though.

These are all drunk at room temperature, because any chilling kills the subtle flavours.

Baudelaire

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Lager is not meant to be drank warm. If you don't like ale (which every true man should) then why the heck are ya posting in this thread?

At what point did I say I was a man?

ApeXaviour

Baudelaire wrote:

At what point did I say I was a man?

I never suggested you were. Actually if you recall correctly I alluded to the opposite:

Baudelaire wrote: »

ApeXaviour wrote:

women...

Well you're the one that needs his beer to be room temprature so it doesn't hurt his wickle tummy

Oddly enough that comment made you defensive.

Baudelaire

ApeXaviour wrote: »

I never suggested you were. Actually if you recall correctly I alluded to the opposite:

You alluded to the opposite because you assumed I was male and though a "real man" comment would damage my fragile male ego.

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Oddly enough that comment made you defensive.

That comment was a joke which it seems damaged your fragile male ego, next time I'll use a smiley

Tom Dunne

Ladies - can you leave the handbags at the door, please?

biko

I had heated beer in ski slopes in Poland, was quite strange.
A nice room temp pint in an old Irish or English pub is just the ticket.

ApeXaviour

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Ladies - can you leave the handbags at the door, please?

Um... it's called a man-bag.

And bishops finger is my favourite so far. Store it in the fridge (cellar, anywhere cool and away from sunlight, the fact it's in clear glass makes this especially important), but leave it out for an hour before drinking.

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ApeXaviour wrote: »

Um... it's called a man-bag.

And bishops finger is my favourite so far. Store it in the fridge (cellar, anywhere cool and away from sunlight, the fact it's in clear glass makes this especially important), but leave it out for an hour before drinking.

Jaysis, this is extremely important.

I hate seeing Corona in shops and offies being exposed to the light.

Don1

I don't understand why more brewers don't use the darker bottles!!

Dark glass good, clear glass bad peoples!

Clear glass and light exposure, imo, leads to more hangoverness too.

Rob_l

this thread made me think of good old tom


warm beer and cold women, I just don't fit in
every joint I stumbled into tonight
that's just how it's been
all these double knit strangers with
gin and vermouth and recycled stories
in the naugahyde booths
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/tom_waits/warm_beer_and_cold_women.html

C Fodder

Cold ale is awful but cool ale is very nice. Warm beer is an abomination unless it is mulled ale which is a different thing altogether.

Slow Motion

DesF wrote: »

Jaysis, this is extremely important.

I hate seeing Corona in shops and offies being exposed to the light.

DON'T GO INTO THE LIGHT..........!!

Baudelaire

Slow Motion wrote: »

DON'T GO INTO THE LITE..........!!

Fixed that for you

grumpytrousers

oh yez b*stards...reminding me of the joys of warm beer on a day like today. I'm a Youngs beer man, meself, having lived in South West london and quite close to the Wandsworth Brewery.

Frankly, gentlemen, on a day like today, there is quite simply nothing to beat sitting in a nice warm pub, with a roaring fire, decent banter and nothing between you and closing time bar a few pints of Youngs Winter Warmer...

Slow Motion

Baudelaire wrote: »

Fixed that for you

Damn it! That's what I had intended in the first place:D

Blisterman

Cellar temperature ale is where it's at. Not quite cold. Not room temperature. Just right.

denashpot

love to try it. what was the name of the ale you had po? any one else have a nice german beer to recommend?

Don1

German beers I like: Sanwald and Erdinger Weissebier, Dinkel Acker Pils, Bitburger, Cluss (spell?) Keller Pils to name but a few.

Karl Hungus

Some people posting here really need to learn the difference between an Ale and a Lager, and when we're talking about warm ale, that does not mean we're on about sipping a room temperature pint of Carlsberg or some such.

ApeXaviour

Hah.. seconded and wrank, respectively.

Carrigart Exile

H.O.T.A.S. wrote: »

What's the BGRH stance on warm ale? Was over in Bath for the weekend and was knocking back a fair few of these and they are pretty damn tasty. Also old style pumps FTW!

Beers and ales are the growth markets in teh UK, the dish water they call lager (serve ice cold in case you taste it) is suffering collapsing sales

Blisterman

Glad to hear that.
Of course exception should be made for decent lagers, such as Ziweich and Staropramen (I know I spelt those two wrong).

AMHRASACH

. ."Hen's Tooth" 6.5% vol. bottle conditioned (don't shake the yeast), brewer Morland, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Sacrilege to drink @ other than room temperature. Ignorant offsales chill it, unless you buy by the case & get 10% off!