# Question about kegs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-kegs/437729>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 15, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-kegs/437729 "2008-02-15T13:39:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-kegs/437729/21 "2008-02-15T18:24:45Z")

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[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]  
[Nitpick]That’s Anheuser-Busch, and their products are lagers. He’s talking about Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which is…well…ale. It is brewed, stored, and served at higher temperatures than lagers.  
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Yes, but not at room temperature.

I doubt most people have rooms where the temperature is usually 60 degrees.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-kegs/437729/22 "2008-02-15T19:06:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Balthisar]  
**InvisibleWombat** , because they’re the same fridge, I necessarily have to drink my own ales at lager temperatures.  
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Understood. Same here.

[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]  
Yes, but not at room temperature.

I doubt most people have rooms where the temperature is usually 60 degrees.  
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I said, “in the sixties,” not “sixty degrees.” Every house I’ve lived in has had a closet without a heating vent, or a spot in the cellar, or somewhere that the temperature rarely climbed above 68 or so. Although that’s too high for a serving temperature, it’s just fine for storing a keg of ale for a month–as long as it’s out of the light.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-kegs/437729/23 "2008-02-15T20:14:28Z")

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[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]  
I said, “in the sixties,” not “sixty degrees.” Every house I’ve lived in has had a closet without a heating vent, or a spot in the cellar, or somewhere that the temperature rarely climbed above 68 or so. Although that’s too high for a serving temperature, it’s just fine for storing a keg of ale for a month  
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Hmmm.

I suppose living in Florida my perspective on finding cold places to put things is somewhat skewed.

[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]  
-as long as it’s out of the light.  
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Um… whoosh?  
Right?

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-kegs/437729/24 "2008-02-15T20:21:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]

> [@InvisibleWombat](#):
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> -as long as it’s out of the light.

Um… whoosh?  
Right?  
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Not a whoosh - I was just unclear. Even with shiny metal kegs, the contents will get hot if they sit in the sun too long. I didn’t mean that the light would affect the beer–it’s the excess heat.

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