Hot Beer for in flight service
Aug 31, 2017, 9:36 pm
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I like what I like, and really don't care. Bourdain has some great thoughts on the "beer nerd" sub culture. Hot day = very cold beer. If you enjoy the latest sweatsock porter at 98.6, bravo and enjoy it in good health. I'd suggest you save the lecture for someone that is interested.
But, lest you think that I have always been a "beer nerd" this thread reminds me of college days in the early '70s when Coors was not sold east of Kansas City. Several fraternity brothers rented a truck and brought back an entire truck load to Indiana... in December.
Eager to partake of the forbidden nectar (oh, the naivete of youth), we started opening cans immediately upon arrival and discovered... beer slush.
We didn't recognize it a the time, but what liquid we could get out of the cans was probably better than the normal beer, as some of the excess water had been frozen out of it.
Sep 1, 2017, 9:48 am
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I've been flying a lot more Southwest this year than recent years and I am constantly impressed by how cold they keep their beer, it appears to me that Delta stores in a similar manner as Southwest (bottom bin of the cart underneath ice), yet somehow in practice Delta beer on average is much warmer than Southwest beer in my recent experience.
Sep 1, 2017, 9:52 am
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I've been flying a lot more Southwest this year than recent years and I am constantly impressed by how cold they keep their beer, it appears to me that Delta stores in a similar manner as Southwest (bottom bin of the cart underneath ice), yet somehow in practice Delta beer on average is much warmer than Southwest beer in my recent experience.
My impression is that often on DL, for out-and-back routes (e.g., ATL - XXX - ATL) the plane is only catered in ATL and the folks on the "back" flight are at the mercy of whatever is left on the plane... including increasingly warm beer.
Sep 1, 2017, 10:09 pm
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I've been flying a lot more Southwest this year than recent years and I am constantly impressed by how cold they keep their beer, it appears to me that Delta stores in a similar manner as Southwest (bottom bin of the cart underneath ice), yet somehow in practice Delta beer on average is much warmer than Southwest beer in my recent experience.
Please Delta - ice down your beer!
Sep 2, 2017, 2:22 pm
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Head over to Beer Advocate or Rate Beer and rate your warmed up beer and post the link to Delta Customer Care.
I guess the same would go for their Chardonnay Wine. Oh and when I get my Cabernet wine cold now we have a major problem. I do not like it when the restaurants in Spain serve the Cabernet wine cold. I am sorry but it ruins the flavor.
For me a Woodoford Reserve would take the place of a warm beer any day.
I would stick to the cold beers at the Sky Club if that is an option.
I guess the same would go for their Chardonnay Wine. Oh and when I get my Cabernet wine cold now we have a major problem. I do not like it when the restaurants in Spain serve the Cabernet wine cold. I am sorry but it ruins the flavor.
For me a Woodoford Reserve would take the place of a warm beer any day.
I would stick to the cold beers at the Sky Club if that is an option.