What a find ..

[Valencian Kilted]

Spain is not a "beer country", we are a wine country and beer has not been one of our traditional drinks. When king Charles the 5th. came to rule Spain from the Netherlands in the early 16th. century, he had to carry with him his own brewers, because he was not able to find some here. Beer started to be more or less usual at the beginning of the century, but always on the lager or pilsen styles. Apart of that, we are a really warm country, so we always appreciate beer as a refreshing drink. For spaniards, a warm beer is "donkey piss"!.

Even in the late years, with the arrival of many import beers and the growing of many "beer pubs" where u can find dozens of different beers from all over the world, our knowledge of beer has increased, (I have a collection with more or less 215 bottles(empty ;)) from many places of the 5 continents, and the list never stops growing!),... but we always drink our beer chilled!

¡Chilled salud!

T O N O

[Schultz]

I also used to have a rather large collection of beer bottles from all over the world, over 1200 at last count.

Sadly, when I was forced due to financial circumstances to move rather quickly, I had to leave them all behind

Thankfully my bar towel collection survived and I can't wait until the wife and I buy a house so I can turn a section of my basement into "some depressing, dark pub" (her words).

My wife has already laid claim to the other half of the basement for her "Blue Hawaii" themed "Friki Bar".

Yes, we have varied tastes.

[davedove]

Thankfully my bar towel collection survived and I can't wait until the wife and I buy a house so I can turn a section of my basement into "some depressing, dark pub" (her words).

My wife has already laid claim to the other half of the basement for her "Blue Hawaii" themed "Friki Bar".

Yes, we have varied tastes.

I trying to imagine how those two different themes will play off against each other.:confused:

[bubba]

She'll do her haka, he'll lift his kilt and both bars will be forgotten.

[Schultz]

I trying to imagine how those two different themes will play off against each other.:confused:

A wall.

[Raptor]

Well, there goes my theory! I reckon that it's not so much that the British serve their beer warm, it's just that room temperature over there is about the same as our fridges

[SnakeEyes]

Warm beer makes me rather ill, actually. I think we Canadians are just raised to like cold beer.

[freddie]

[QUOTE=GlassMan;198986]There's actually a very good reason for the British to like their beer warm, or at least their Bitter served warm.

Well put GlassMan -You beat me to it. Why do so many people like their beer ice cold ?. When I was in Canada (Edmonton) for Xmas a couple of years ago it was about 20 degrees below zero and they were not only serving ice cold lager but pouring it into ice coated glasses straight from the freezer (BBRRRRR!!!). They seemed to think I was mad when I asked for a 'warm' glass off the shelf. I can understand people in really hot climates prefering cold beer, but not in the middle of a cold winter. Give me a pint of unchilled real ale in front of a roaring log fire any day. It shouldn't be warm but cool, but certainly not chilled. Real Ale is a living beer and when chilled it looses all it's character and flavour. The mark of a really good 'Landlord' is to serve his real ale cool in the hight of summer. Not many can achieve it without resorting to pulling it through a 'chiller' (which ruins the beer).
P.S. I replied to GlassMan's post without reading the following ones and having just read the previous post by SnakeEyes I hope he doesn't think that my posting is in direct response to his. I loved everything about Canada and had a really good time there, and if the beer was too cold I drank whisky (no ice) !!!! Also the beer in 'The British Pub' situated in The West Edmonton Mall, although not 'Real Ale', was as good as anything back home. The 'cold' experience was in Hooters in the same shopping mall. Mind you after seeing the waitresses in there I needed something to cool me down!!!!!

[cessna152towser]

Good picture, Derek. Please don't go poisoning yourself with beers that are too long out of date - Cymru needs all her kilted ambassadors !

[cloves]

warm beer versus cold beer i think has much to do with the color of the beer being consumed, probably like wines.
The darker ones can be served at warmer temps...the lighter the color the cooler the better i find