# Tea time and airport hotels in England **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-time-and-airport-hotels-in-england/539471 "2010-05-14T20:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-time-and-airport-hotels-in-england/539471/33 "2010-05-17T10:51:41Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > In America beer is consumed ice cold so anything served at room temperature would be sent back. There is even a gimmicky brewing process called fractional freezing which led to a an ice-beer marketing war back in the 90’s. Beer served at room temperature would be sent back in the UK too. As stated above, bitter/ale is served at cellar temperature (around 12C/54F). Lager is, of course, served chilled (although perhaps a degree or two less chilled than you might find it in America). > [@The Great Philosopher](#): > > Really? In my experience most people here drink tea bags, the highest selling brand being Tetleys. If that’s our standard, I find it hard to believe even the Yanks could mess it up. Oh but they can! Tea bags, regardless of what the snobs say, can produce a perfectly good cup of tea - but, like leaf tea, you _have_ to use boiling water, as in proper, fresh-out-of-the-kettle-just-as-it-clicks-off boiling. Putting hottish water in a cold cup in a hotel kitchen, then putting it on a saucer with a wrapped tea bag on the side, then carrying it out to the customer thus letting it cool down even more before the tea bag is even put into the water, does not result in a good cup of tea. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-time-and-airport-hotels-in-england/539471)._