>>>... even if this means to drink warm ale. (X.X)
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>>Here we go again with the "warm beer" debate. We like our "bitter" and "mild" beers, from the keg, at cellar temp. Lager and such is sold cold, esp. the "extra cold" lagers, and now Guinness is also sold as extra cold. But not so cold that your hand sticks to the glass as in the USA.
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>So you don't like it frozen like in china or with ice cubes? A warm ale is a cruel idea if one is bound to coold nice Pilsner. But we come over this.
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>>Like American beer! :-)
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>LOL
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>Agnes

One of the Americans I worked with in Manchester -- pretty much the ugly American abroad -- always complained when he ordered Coke and it came with no ice. "They have the technology," he would say in a withering way.