Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#416,695
> You are supposed to leave ales at cellar temperature, not room temperature.
Correct, but this is still way above the freeze levels of American served beer.
@previous (doctor superman md !jdTkvovFCQ)
Every beer contains sulphates, on average 230 to 500 mg per litre. Sulphuric acid has the property of endowing the beer with a pleasantly dry, somewhat bitter taste. Sulphuric acid is a natural acid, consisting of sulphur dioxide, oxygen and water. Each beer is in any case the result of a complex chemical first-then-next that spans the brewing process. Seen thus, every beer is a ‘chemical beer’. That said, the term ‘chemical beer’, in popular parlance, will usually refer to a beer where the brewer tries to scamp on quality ingredients or accelerate the natural brewing process by the use of chemical adjuvants, congeners, flocculants - and heaven alone know what else. Which happens seldom if ever; beer is still a pretty natural product.
Every beer contains sulphates, on average 230 to 500 mg per litre. Sulphuric acid has the property of endowing the beer with a pleasantly dry, somewhat bitter taste. Sulphuric acid is a natural acid, consisting of sulphur dioxide, oxygen and water. Each beer is in any case the result of a complex chemical first-then-next that spans the brewing process. Seen thus, every beer is a ‘chemical beer’. That said, the term ‘chemical beer’, in popular parlance, will usually refer to a beer where the brewer tries to scamp on quality ingredients or accelerate the natural brewing process by the use of chemical adjuvants, congeners, flocculants - and heaven alone know what else. Which happens seldom if ever; beer is still a pretty natural product.
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Syntax joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#416,706