Drinking Warm Beer?

Beer dissolves a lot of carbon dioxide with high pressure (about 50 grams of carbon dioxide per liter of beer). When we drink the beer into the stomach, the beer temperature gets higher because the pressure in our stomach is much lower than in beer bottles, and dissolved carbon dioxide will “ran” out. As our stomach does not absorb these carbon dioxides, it can only be discharged into the air. This process will bring a lot of heat out from our body, that is why people will feel cool when drinking beer. And carbon dioxide can also help gastrointestinal motility to make people feel comfortable. Pure water does not have such an effect.

Scientists have found tiny channels in the taste buds when food and drink come in contact with the taste receptors. This channel is very sensitive to temperature changes. When the temperature is 15 °C, the channel barely can be seen. When the temperature is 37 °C, the sensitivity of the channel can be increased by more than 100 times. Therefore, the best beer drinking temperature is about 15 °C, when the beer is refreshing and comfortable. If the temperature is higher, people will feel the bitterness of the beer and do not like to drink it. Everyone wants a cold beer from a cooling cold beer fridge.

However, it doesn’t mean that drinking warm beer is impossible. The so-called drinking warm beer, in fact, is the “hot bath” method: soak the beer in more than 30 degrees warm water. It is determined that the winter neurasthenics who use “beer therapy”, that is to drink half a bottle of beer 0.5 hours after the dinner and right before the sleep, with 30 days for a course of treatment, and the effect is significant. A French scientist surveyed 10 elderly people over the age of 80 and found that they have a common feature in eating habits, that is hot drinks. Such as warm beer, mixed with hot water, hot milk, etc., every day.

Now there is also a special modulation for drinking warm beer, as follows:

• Boil a liter of beer boil, add cinnamon, cloves, lemon peel.
• Mix the egg yolk and sugar until a white foam appears.
• Cool the beer to 60 °C.
• Slowly add the mixture of egg yolk and sugar while stirring.
• Heat up again until slightly thick and drink this warm beer when hot.

Drinking warm beer in such way does not only make the beer smells and tastes more fragrant, but also makes the whole body warm while dispelling cold deficiency. Interested readers may have a try drinking warm beer now in cold winters.