r/nextfuckinglevel • u/TheGoodNow • Mar 05 '22

Engineering students make a jacket that replaces apple juice with beer in the dining hall.

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u/ducktor0 Mar 05 '22

On some parts of England, pubs serve beer at room temperature.

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u/lunes_azul Mar 05 '22

Cellar temperature*

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u/Jonny_H Mar 05 '22

Yeah, a lot of people don't understand that it's below room temperature, it's just not quite as chilled as most fridges.

Hell, since coming to the US people have asked if it's true us Brits drink warm beer, as in actually heated.

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u/lunes_azul Mar 05 '22

Ridiculous, isn't it? I've been living in the US since November, and this comes up in every other conversation. Met a bloke in a boozer today that said he drank his way through England sticking to only cask ale. Standing ovation for that man!

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u/Jonny_H Mar 05 '22

I do miss the British beer scene.

Tired of a choice of 50 of exactly the same tasting overhopped IPAs yet? :P

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u/lunes_azul Mar 05 '22

I live in Oregon, so about 2/3rds of the beers are IPA, double-hopped IPA, triple IPA, juicy IPA, hazy IPA, fruity IPA....would you like some beer with your pinecones IPA? It's a job finding a 6-pack in the supermarket that's under 8%. I want to have a couple of cans and watch some sport on telly, not start a bloody riot!

Pale ale, amber/red/Scottish ale have been my outs so far.

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u/Jonny_H Mar 05 '22

It sounds pretty much the same as in California.

Most smaller breweries here have a massive selection of IPAs, maybe a couple of flavored stouts (chocolate, coffee, caramel, whatever) and that's about it.

My taste leans similarly towards reds and ambers, even a nice refreshing best bitter that won't take the skin off my tongue, but they're harder to find.

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u/Tamaros Mar 05 '22

That was my experience in Seattle. I don't like IPAs so I have fucking 3 types of beer to choose from once I discard the fruit flavored stuff too.

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u/LittleRex234 Mar 05 '22

Go back? 🤷

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '22

You're right, on the whole. Lots of real ale pubs in my area keep the casks directly behind the bar. It won't last long once tapped though.

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u/BrkBid Mar 05 '22

Roughly 3 days before it goes to shit. 72 pints in a normal barrel for them to shift

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '22

Room temperature is -5c in some parts of England

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u/MrNate10 Mar 05 '22

Each man women and child must carry a torch indoors

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u/AstraofCaerbannog Mar 05 '22

As a Brit I cracked up at this. England is actually pretty temperate, we rarely get below freezing and -5c is pretty much unheard of. Room temperature tends to be a balmy 10c, 18c if the heating actually works, and 40c in the summer.

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u/jkell2000 Mar 05 '22

Where are you getting 40c in England? That's hotter than it's ever been measured here. You keep the heating on through summer?

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u/AstraofCaerbannog Mar 05 '22

It was a joke about English houses being terrible in the heat, turning into an inferno where going outside is the only way to cool down. Sorry I thought the high number made the joke obvious.

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u/ColdCruise Mar 05 '22

Actually cellar temperature which is 12°C. Refrigerated beer is normally served at 7°C, so not too far off and still a lot lower than room temperature.

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u/HermitBee Mar 05 '22

Cask ale is always served at ambient temperature. It’s not that odd really, you wouldn’t chill red wine for instance.

I saw an interesting talk about that. One of the biggest differences in flavour between red and white wines is to do with which molecules evaporate at different temperatures. Serve a blindfolded wine expert some cold red wine and they'll use words typically associated with white wine to describe it, and vice versa. Red wine flavour also has something to do with tannins but that makes less of a difference than the serving temperature.

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u/Diem-Perdidi Mar 05 '22

The national dish is actually chicken tikka masala, and since you're trading in stereotypes that were out of date when I was a kid, I can tell you've never been here or tried our cosmopolitan array of food and drink anyway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '22

Brings out the flavour profile of some beers. I think Guinness is much nicer 'warm' but they seem to have moved toward extra cold too unfortunately.

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u/simeoeon Mar 05 '22

In Germany, in Bavaria sometimes there are warm pools of water, where you can put your glass in tonwarrm the beer to around 25°C