There are few things better after a hot day spent working outside (or any day spent doing anything, but you get the point) than an ice-cold beer, straight from the fridge, with those lovely little beads of condensation clustering on the bottle. That first long pull just sends all the heat and humidity scurrying for the horizon and makes you feel like everything’s going to be all right.
Now it turns out that there is a sound reason, a scientific reason, why ice-cold beer tastes so good.
When beer is cold, the ethanol appears chain-like on a molecular level, bringing out the ethanol-like flavor. As beer becomes warm, the ethanol creates clusters, and that flavor fades.
“This is why we drink cold beer,” [the study’s lead author, Lei Jiang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,] said.
Experts warn though that there is such a thing as “too cold” when it comes to beer. According to…
