# Beer in westerns

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-in-westerns/32616>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-in-westerns/32616 "2000-09-09T18:37:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-in-westerns/32616/21 "2000-09-11T04:43:28Z")

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Do you know why there’s a traditional big beer festival in the Fall? To celebrate the return of beer!

From Beer & Pubs in the UK came this:  
_There was no brewing in breweries that we would recognize today. Until refrigeration was introduced in the 1880’s beer was only brewed in the colder months from September until April or May._

So I still say the real cowpoke walked up the the bar and said “Gimme Wheeskey.”

The 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania wasn’t called the “Beer Rebellion.”

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**Author:** ![Wooster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Wooster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wooster)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-in-westerns/32616/22 "2000-09-11T06:02:40Z")

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Beer starts to cool as soon as you open it, as heat is lost to evaporation. As the body is 98°, anything less than that will taste cool. Beer kept in a cellar under a building will get to 60° even in the heat of the plains.

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