is the beer in Germany served warm or cold?

Mensch · 11-30-2007, 10:42 PM

is the beer in Germany served warm or cold
i have heard that in the UK its warm.

Alwin E · 11-30-2007, 10:51 PM

Hi, I'm a genuine German, and a passionate beer drinker from Bavaria. So this is genuine information.

Beer served at room temperature would be rejected by every German as being lukewarm and making him vomit. Nobody dares to give you lukewarm beer.

On the other hand, beer is not served icecold either, as from the fridge.

When you have the choice in Germany, you'll take a beer "from tap". Some people say, to tap a good, chilled beer takes seven minutes. I say, four will do. However, there is a barrel of beer in a chilled room, at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius, hand-tapped by the landlord or landlady, and until it gets to you, it will have some 6 or 7 degrees Celsius, and a nice foam topping on it. That's how to drink beer with style.

Drinking canned or bottled beer, even when poured into glasses, is barbaric and uncivilized. (Weißbier, "wheat beer" in Bavaria makes an exception to that rule.)

I understand Americans who like their beer colder than we do. It's your choice. But to German taste, everything around freezing point tastes just like nothing. And, yes, we don't have big freezers in our homes. We're quite conscious about energy use, and a little freezer compartment in the fridge works fine. Even for cooling down beer bottles in summer. And for cans, we pay a 50 euro-cent deposit PER CAN at the supermarket, and the cans must be returned. If you throw them away, it's your choice, but you've lost 50 cents.

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Alwin E Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1	Hi, I'm a genuine German, and a passionate beer drinker from Bavaria. So this is genuine information. Beer served at room temperature would be rejected by every German as being lukewarm and making him vomit. Nobody dares to give you lukewarm beer. On the other hand, beer is not served icecold either, as from the fridge. When you have the choice in Germany, you'll take a beer "from tap". Some people say, to tap a good, chilled beer takes seven minutes. I say, four will do. However, there is a barrel of beer in a chilled room, at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius, hand-tapped by the landlord or landlady, and until it gets to you, it will have some 6 or 7 degrees Celsius, and a nice foam topping on it. That's how to drink beer with style. Drinking canned or bottled beer, even when poured into glasses, is barbaric and uncivilized. (Weißbier, "wheat beer" in Bavaria makes an exception to that rule.) I understand Americans who like their beer colder than we do. It's your choice. But to German taste, everything around freezing point tastes just like nothing. And, yes, we don't have big freezers in our homes. We're quite conscious about energy use, and a little freezer compartment in the fridge works fine. Even for cooling down beer bottles in summer. And for cans, we pay a 50 euro-cent deposit PER CAN at the supermarket, and the cans must be returned. If you throw them away, it's your choice, but you've lost 50 cents.