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Not warm, but at proper serving temperature. American pale lagers need to be ice cold or they taste like shit. Most beer has more flavor when not disguised by it being too cold.

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I avoid the barley wines and belgians. They aren't my thing.
 
You kids and your flavored beers....

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Kids? How old are you, Peter?
 
That's a fermentation technique to increase the surface area for more rapid fermentation. It doesn't change the flavor. Just a marketing gimmick.
It does change the flavor. It's not going to turn it into the beer equivalent of gnawing on tree bark (hello, Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard!), but almost anything that goes in the tank impacts the flavor.
 
all american pale lagers are light beers. Come on dude... we have enough beer knowledge around these forums. You should know better!

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And as the Great American Beer Festival says in its style guidelines (yes, awards are given for light beers), “In these beers the word ‘light’ refers to relatively low body and reduced calories, rather than to color.”
 
It does change the flavor. It's not going to turn it into the beer equivalent of gnawing on tree bark (hello, Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard!), but almost anything that goes in the tank impacts the flavor.

Beechwood Aging

Beechwood aging has nothing to do with adding flavor to the beer. Beechwood was actually chosen for its very lack of flavor. Its real purpose is to provide greater square footage at the bottom of the fermenter on which the yeast will settle, so the yeast cake is spread thinner allowing the yeast to ferment the beer more quickly and efficiently. The additional yeast also helps to clean up off flavors created during the fermentation process. This is just a simple case of making the process more efficient and getting greater production out of the equipment they have.
 
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And as the Great American Beer Festival says in its style guidelines (yes, awards are given for light beers), “In these beers the word ‘light’ refers to relatively low body and reduced calories, rather than to color.”
Indeed, I stand corrected. Prior to 2020, that "style" was lumped together with regular American style lagers in beer competitions. Now there are enough of them around for their own style. I knew they were lumped together back when I entered my own beer in competitions, but that was over 5 years ago. *edit... after re-reading, I was wrong about that too. IDGAF :)
 
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Not warm, but at proper serving temperature. American pale lagers need to be ice cold or they taste like shit. Most beer has more flavor when not disguised by it being too cold.

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My grandma drank about one beer a week. Coors Original at room temp. When we cleaned out her apartment after she died, I took one Coors Original and drank it at room temp in her memory. Had to choke that shit down to get through it. And that was before I was more of a beer snob and drinking mostly domestic lagers.
 
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