If you are talking "Lite Beer" anything then, yeah, cold will tend to kill off whatever smidgen of flavor is left. Don't know about so called "Artisan Beer" and what cold might do to it, but your normal, regular, beer in a bottle should not be bothered all tha much by the cold. Thing here to appreciate is that I am not talking cold enough to freeze a cow in a half hour cold. just cold enough to put an edge to things. Beer in a can is just not the same; somehow the can seems to tweak the taste ever so subtley and not for the better.
As for British beer, We-ell, any nation whose brewers make beer dense enough that you can put a spoon into it and the spoon will stand straight up without assistance or support has nothing to fear from a little cold. Plus which a lot of the local stuff is on draft or tap meaning straight out of the keg which means it doesn't go through all the production steps that the bottled stuff has to endure.. One of the local basement dives that I hung out in many decades ago offered draft by the jug but the kegs had to be guzzled down almost the day they were broached or by the next day they would have gone flat and have to be unplugged and replaced. They were probably the last true bargain of an era as a jug cost around 4-5 bucks and held about 8 full glasses of whatever the brand of the day in the keg was.
Fun.
Nick
As for British beer, We-ell, any nation whose brewers make beer dense enough that you can put a spoon into it and the spoon will stand straight up without assistance or support has nothing to fear from a little cold. Plus which a lot of the local stuff is on draft or tap meaning straight out of the keg which means it doesn't go through all the production steps that the bottled stuff has to endure.. One of the local basement dives that I hung out in many decades ago offered draft by the jug but the kegs had to be guzzled down almost the day they were broached or by the next day they would have gone flat and have to be unplugged and replaced. They were probably the last true bargain of an era as a jug cost around 4-5 bucks and held about 8 full glasses of whatever the brand of the day in the keg was.
Fun.
Nick
