Re: Cold beer (was: Coca Cola)

From: Paul J Kriha (paul.nospam.kriha_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:31:39 +1200

Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message news:4248e2d3@news.alphalink.com.au...
> Paul J Kriha wrote:
> > Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > news:42480ECA.103C@worldnet.att.net...
>
> >>Did you chill it, or
> >>do Ozzies have the British attitude toward ice?
>
> > Oh God, NO!
>
> > Even the glasses come out of a freezer.
>
> March 1968, Commercial Hotel, Ararat, Victoria.
> The beer (Carlton Draught, no other choice)
> came out so cold that you had a thin layer
> of ice in your glass. Not on the glass, but on
> the beer! The publican told me that he refrigerated
> it to -4C. Less than that, and it would have frozen
> in the pipes.

There are at least two reasons for serving beer
so fiendishly cold in Australia.
(1) it is pleasantly refreshing in the hot climate, and
(2) you don't run the risk of actually tasting it. :-)

Paul JK

P.S.
Point (2) doesn't apply to Coopers and some (a few) others.

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