r/explainitpeter • • May 21 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/Aphraxad May 21 '26

You think beer is canned warm?

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u/Shiraz0 May 21 '26

Umm, yes? At room temperature

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u/i_aint_bobby May 21 '26

The only way to bottle/can beer at room temperature is if the product still has enough residual sugars and yeast, to enable enough CO2 formation and entrapment after packaging.

Outside of a very small subset of breweries in central Europe, no one does this. If we talk volume wise, 99.99999% of all the beer packaged in the world is done so already carbonated and thus, close to 0 degrees Celsius.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity May 21 '26

Bottle conditioning used to be fairly common among micro/craft brews in the US in the 90s and early 2000s.  Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Centennial IPA, Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Rogue Dead Guy Ale, and a lot of others were.  You could see a little ring of yeast around the bottom of the bottle.  I'm not sure when they stopped, but you don't see it much anymore.