Ice cold beer
 

What exactly makes this taste so much better than warm beer?

Why do foods like spaghetti taste so much better when warm or hot than when cold?

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What exactly makes this taste so much better than warm beer?

Why do foods like spaghetti taste so much better when warm or hot than when cold?

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Cold spaghetti can be quite delicious...Very sauce dependent though...

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Placebo.

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What exactly makes this taste so much better than warm beer?

Why do foods like spaghetti taste so much better when warm or hot than when cold?

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A question for the ages, unless you European, wouldnt most be sick at the sight of cold beer?

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Ice cold beer is the best.
As far as food that is good cold - fried chicken.

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Ice cold beer is the best.
As far as food that is good cold - fried chicken.

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And pizza and Lasagna.. basically anything italian.

Mexican food sucks cold!

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I met a medic at a summer camp I was at when I was a kid who insisted that hot coca cola worked just as good as epikak.

Freakin

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What exactly makes this taste so much better than warm beer?

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Beer at 38F is much, much, much better than beer at 32F. Unless you're drinking a macro, in which case colder is better.

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Warm beer resembles urine a bit too much for my liking. Cold beer doesn't resemble urine. Well, most cold beers don't, anyway.

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I'll assume you're talking about standard lagers here. Other beers amongst us beer geeks are meant to NOT be consumed at ICE COLD temps. I won't get sidetracked with a better-beer conversation here.

Temperature dramatically effects how we taste food. For example, cold mutes how we taste sweetness. I can't speak for the science of it, but it's plainly noticeable to me.

Try an ICE COLD beer and a luke-warm beer side-by-side. The warmer beer will taste sweeter because the malty sweetness will be more discernable to your palate at that temperature.

Similarly, take a pure ice cream without scary additives (say, Breyers or some such) and leave some in a bowl to completely melt. You might be surprised how sweet it is -- some items are almost sickeningly sweet when not icy cold (i.e. McDonald's Shakes).

There may be other factors at play in when you taste beer warm vs. cold as well. For example, your tastes of warm beer were probably also flat and missed out on the effect the carbonated mouthfeel has on your judgement of flavor.