Does Ireland serve their Guiness cold or at room temperature?!
Does Ireland serve their Guiness cold or at room temperature?
Answers:
Guinness is indeed served slightly chilled at "cellar temperature" about 55-63 degrees F on the Emerald Isle. This is the best range for such a beer style.
Although the serving temperature in Europe varies from country to country they are served warmer than in the USA. We Americans are addicted to cold and cold foods. Hell, we even serve our hot foods cold, such as left-over pizza (Okay bit of a stretch).
Beers have specific brewing and aging temperatures, ales are about 52-63 degrees F were lagers 42-48 F and colder for the actual lagering stage. With some variance of temp. amoung brewers. And so it is found that these beers are best drank about the same temps. But usually toward the high end of the range.
We Americans say the beers are warm or some people say hot. But they are the correct temperature and we are wro..., well unique.