Lately I’ve been adding ice to my beer. Not bad. Very refreshing.
Ice in beer?
- Yes!
- No!
- I’ll try anything once
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Ice and lime are two things that definetly do not belong in beer.
I much prefer warm beer to beer polluted with ice. But then again I am of German descent.
Puna the mainlanders are experiencing 110 deg F + heat waves. I assume it is screwing with their thought processes. I, having experienced NOTHING but rain and temps below 75 F all “summer” long, would never put ice in my beer, because I’m cold as it is.
I’m sure there’s a style of beer that this might work for, but I can’t think of one off the type of my head. Ginger beer maybe? 
I can just picture the hop haze crystalizing Absinthe-style if I were to serve up one of my homebrews over ice.
I think i have mentioned this before but… fill a glass full of ice, half carbonated lemonade and half beer (i use 312 or similar). very coolth for hot summer nights.
Brewpub that used to be not too far from here was where I first encountered the old timer habit of Coors Light on the rocks with a dash of salt.
Even in my youth I thought it somewhat a tragedy. 
a company makes soapstone cubes called whiskey stones. put them in the freezer, then your whiskey or beer. no dilution of flavor contribution. they definately dont have the cooling capabilities of ice but they work.
It’s been in the high 90’s for the past week here. On July 4th, after sweating outside all day, I mixed Belgian wit and hard cider over ice - sort of an apple shandy. It was delicious.
I like a few cubes with my Bourbon, but in my beer…well…probably not. I think it will dilute all of that malty and hoppy goodness. I wouldn’t turn it down but I also wouldn’t request it.
I thought the same. Clearly, we are giving the finger to the idea of ice in beer.
Keep some mugs in the freezer if you must cool your beer.
I use Whisky Stones. They get cold fast and don’t melt and add water to your drink.
I’m just giving it a splash of limeade. I would have reacted badly to the ice up until last week when I decided to give it a try.
Schlitz High Gravity holds up well to the treatment and can pack quite a wallop. ;D
I ordered a cider at a local bar the other day and they served it over ice. That was a first time for me. Thought is was weird at first and was going to ask them to repour but I said what the hell and drank it. However, I dont think I’d like it in my beer!
Crispin cider has been marketing that. Bizarre, and with bar prices I’d be angry about paying for less cider.
Since we’re talking about whiskey stones…
The Germans use an interesting device called a beer warmer in their bier steins in the winter. It is a hollow metal tube that is filled with warm water and hung inside the stein to keep their beer from getting too cold.
You gotta love people who will go to such lengths to enjoy beer, even when it’s that cold out!
It’s not unusual to go to a pub in Ireland and order a cider, and have it served with a glass of ice.
But not ice in beer.
Funny - try that bourbon-barrel aged double imperial yak tongue mocha Belgian stout? Sure thing!!
Ice in beer? No!! That’s sacrilage!
It would seem to me, that the thing to do would be pour a neutral beer like an Original Coors into an ice cube tray, freeze it, and use those to chill the beer. Like iced coffee.
Not that I would ever do such a thing.