Skunked beeer?!?!
Answers: I left some Saranac in my warm room for a few days, is it going to taste horrible after I put it in the fridge?? :o(
Compounds in hops called alpha acid degrade in light; that's what makes the skunk flavor.
Brown beer bottles filter out nearly all of the light in the wavelength that causes skunking, so beer in a brown bottle should be OK.
Green and clear bottles aren't nearly as good, so you need to be more careful how you store these and where you buy them (a busy store is best, so they don't have time to absorb light while waiting on a shelf for a buyer).
Commercial beer is pasteurized before bottling (unless it says 'bottle conditioned on it, which is rare), so temperature shouldn't matter as long as it's not really excessive and the bottle hass not been opened.
throw it out
It depends on how warm the room was. Was it room temperature or hot to where you'd sweat? If it was too hot in the room, then MAYBE throw it out. OR you can try to refrigerate it, let it get cold and then try it out. It wouldn't kill you or make you sick if you gave it a little taste. Also, beer is shipped all over and between countries without refrigeration. It SHOULD be fine.
I doubt it will taste bad after only a few days. Pasteurized beer is shipped and stored all over the country without refrigeration. So a few days shouldn't matter.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition
It should be fine. Light is what's responsible for skunking beer, leaving the beer room temperature shouldn't affect the taste unless it was near a window or under direct light.
room temp for a few days will not skunk a beer.
I think you are better off getting rid of it.
Chill it. Taste it. If it tastes like Corona, it's gone bad.