The Right Temperature for Serving Beer
Enhance Your Beer Drinking Experience at the Right Temperature
It is important to serve your beer at the right temperature; this is because serving beer at the Right Temperature actually enhances the beer drinking experience. And different types of beer actually have different serving temperature.
Generally, if you like to savor the full range of flavors of your beer then drink it at a warmer temperature, however, for a more refreshing feel it is normally drunk chilled.
Pale lager is normally served chilled while low or medium strength pale ale is served cool. Strong barley wine or imperial stout is served at room temperature.
There are five-level of serving temperature proposed by Beer writer Michael Jackson
* Well chilled (7 °C/45 °F) for “light” beers (pale lagers)
* Chilled (8 °C/47 °F) for Berliner Weisse and other wheat beers
* Lightly chilled (9 °C/48 °F) for all dark lagers, altbier and German wheat beers
* Cellar temperature (13 °C/55 °F) for regular British ale, stout and most Belgian specialties
* Room temperature (15.5 °C/60 °F) for strong dark ales (especially Trappist beer) and barley wine
With the common availability of refrigeration it is became a common social trend to drink beer chilled. However, when beer is chilled below 60 °F (15.5°C ) you will find that its taste will be reduced, thus if you want to savor more of the flavor of the beer than just basic refreshment then you should serve your beer at cool or room temperature.