Heading up to Toledo Thursday for a concert and was going to stop at Anderson's before to pick some things up since they will be closed after the show. Wasn't sure if it would be ok to have it sit in the car for the time we're there along with the hour ride home. It's supposed to be about 65 degrees out and we'll be in a parking garage so wasn't sure if this would be too hot inside the car and I shouldn't waste the money or just go ahead.
You'll be fine, especially for only a few hours. 65 is not alarmingly warm either. Most closet "cellars" probably hover around there.
That's what I figured but wasn't sure if the car would be higher temp causing bad effects. Glad to hear I should be ok. Thanks!
65? unless you refrigerate your beer, 60-65 is basement temperature. Put it in the trunk as the sun can raise the inside car temp by 30-40 degrees.
I am no expert, but have looked into this pretty extensively... Regardless, you can increase the temp of your beer one time even up to around 80 degrees without causing damage. As long as that temp isn't sustained over, say, a week, and you don't have future increases in temp for that beer in the future. (This is very loose science, but think about it...this is why shipping still works, even in the summer.) I agree with the trunk recommendation, both for temp (should absolutely be fine in a parking garage) and so other seedy beer geeks aren't tempted to break in when you aren't around.
Temperature swings can happen plenty of times and won't affect the beer at all. Just as long as they aren't anything extreme like getting up into the 80's and 90's or dropping down near freezing. If it's just going from say 50-65, you're still staying within what is pretty much cellar temp anyways so any number of swings should have little to no effect.
thanks for the help all, hoping by the time we get up there the temp is starting to dip since the high is only 65, and not much sun. ill stash them in the truck for the show to help with the temp swings from inside of the car and hope all goes well
