canman7373 t1_ismmv0o wrote on October 17, 2022 at 2:48 AM

Reply to comment by Minuted in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

Isn't it at cellar Temps? Beer was and some still is pumped from an underground cellar that is naturally cooler.

NativeMasshole t1_ismyazl wrote on October 17, 2022 at 4:31 AM

That's what I thought too. Which isn't too weird to me as an American either. Especially if it's dark beer, I don't even want that ice cold.

canman7373 t1_ismznmv wrote on October 17, 2022 at 4:45 AM

When I was last there most pubs had just a few on tap at cellar temp, local beers. But rest were normally cooled, they even had "Ice Cold Guinness" in many places, which was just colder than normal Guinness as far as I could tell. But yeah were plenty of beers not served cold, but also not room temp.