Which beers taste better to you when served COLD? Another thread asked Stella or Beck’s. I revisited Beck’s as a result. I picked up a six pack brewed on Monday, December 8, 2025 (so it’s fresh). The first one I tried had been in the kitchen refrigerator for about 5 hours when I poured it into a room temperature pint glass (I don’t know the actual label for this type of glass, my girlfriend calls it a shaker glass). I tasted too much hops. Today, three days later, I poured a cold one into a frozen pint and it tastes so much better. I wonder what other beers taste this much better really cold.
"Taste much better" is, of course, very subjective. Personally, I don't like ice cold beer because it stunts the palate and takes away my enjoyment of complex flavors like, let's just say, hops and malts.
There are tons. I consume any poorly made or odd tasting beer at fridge temperature to mask the more nuanced flavors. Most recently, I started drinking Sierra Nevada Springfest at fridge temp in order to avoid detection of the Pilsner malts which would appear when the beer warmed. The hops were much more pronounced at the lower temperature and the beer actually tasted like an IPA instead of some weird hoppy Pilsner.
Usually one of the “trick” is to drink much lower ABV beers colder than higher ones. BCBS is best served near (cool) room temperature. Corona (yikes!) is enjoyed fairly cold and by the pool in the warmth of the southwest.
If I'm drinking an AAL (which I'm not, ever) it needs to be served at or near 0°C so you can't smell it or taste it. (Science.)
Exactly. Which is why I think this treatment is perfect for BMC type beers. There's no complexity and I want my palate to be stunted when drinking one. Hell, even if it's partially frozen, that really doesn't affect my "enjoyment" of BMC stuff. The colder the better.
I assumed 25342 code on the label was the born on date - the 342nd day of 2025. Monday, December 8th, 2025. Maybe I’m wrong, though.
Tend to favor light colored lagers at colder temperatures. I'm happy to drink everything else at cellar temperature.
