Once beer is refrigerated, will quality/taste/shelf life be affected if the beer is then taken out of the refrigerator and stored at room temperature?
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I don't think it will have too much of an impact as long as the room's temperature doesn't get above something like 72 degrees or so. Plus green or clear bottles are more prone to spoilage due to light exposure. Ales are brewed with a warm temperature yeast and can withstand the higher temperatures as opposed to cold temperature lager yeast. That's why the British imported ale beer into India way back when because it would survive the voyage.
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It shouldn't affect it as long as it's not stored at very high temperatures. The main problem with spoilage of beer, along with champagnes and some wines, is whether or not it gets too much light. Beers do best in a DARK place.
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yea, it is, they'll taste bitter....we call it burnt beer...why I dont know, but it happens.
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Nope, my husband works in the restaurant industry and he had a discussion with one of the beer delivery men about this and the guy laughed and said "You have no idea how many times beer gets cold and warm before it gets to where it is going."
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In general, no. Temperature fluctuation does, however, accelerate the aging process. Aging, or maturing, is good; but only up to a point. The best way to mature beer is over a long time, at an even, low temperature. The way the brewing scientists test beer for its longevity is to repeatedly warm and chill the beer, to determine what age it will be before it begins to stale. Some beers stale more quickly than others. Stale beer won't do you any harm, but it doesn't taste very nice.
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Yes! While the cold temperature will slow down the oxygenation rate, it will still oxygenate. This will give the beer a cardboard like flavor that is generally not what you want for the style. Think of beer from a keg the day after a party. Kind of tastes like crud (if you were not using a CO2 tapping system) most of that flavor is due to pumping out the beer with air and loading the keg with oxygen and other things that make beer stale.
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