Can you take beer from the fridge and store it in a cupboard until you want to chill it again?

Question

I am not a beer drinker, but alot of my friends are...I bought a bunch of beer for a party recently, and still have alot left over. It is taking up alot of room in my fridge,,,,,, and I want to know if I can take it out..keep it at room temp, and will it still be good if I re chill it?

Answer 1

Maybe purists wouldn't, but we do it all the time. We used to give receptions for hundeds of people -- how could we know how much beer they would drink?

I've never seen any suggestion that canned or bottled beer can't be cooled and re-cooled, right up to their sell-by date.

Unpasteurized "draft" beer might need to remain cool lest it spoil.

Answer 2

What a massive range of answers! A few are correct, but most are spouting erroneous information based on "urban legends".

Beer can be stored at room temperature without harm to it for an extended period of time. It can be chilled and warmed back to room temperature as well. Flavor may suffer with prolonged aging, but that's due to the time involved, not the temperature.

Skunking was suggested in one answer. Skunking occurs in clear, blue and green bottles when they are light struck with UV light, including sunlight and fluorescent light. Some of the acids from the hops are catalyzed to mercaptans, a component of skunk stink.

Others suggested that it would go flat. As long as beer is in bottles or cans, sealed, it will remain carbonated.

Yet another person suggested that it can't be consumed at room temp. Certainly it can, and some beers actually have MUCH better, richer taste than Americans are used to of they are served slightly cooled, in the 50 degree range, instead of at freezing cold temps.

Another person suggested that "cold brewed" beers will spoil at room temp. Again, wrong. ALL lagers are cold brewed! Most mega-swill American beers are lagers, and are fermented cold, then aged even colder.

The bottom line is to keep the beer out of sunlight and fluorescent light if it's in bottles. Cans are fine wherever they may be stored. Beer does go bad after months and months of storage, but sell-by and born-on dates are sales hype.

Answer 3

it won't taste as good when you re chill it, but you can do it. I have gotten beer from the store like that a whole case, and i could tell that it had been chilled and taken out a few times. It kinda gives it a flat taste when it is not flat

Answer 4

It depends on how picky you are... The flavor will suffer somewhat but should still be okay...

I was once give a six pack of Malt Liquor at the beach one hot summer day... I put it in my car trunk and forgot about it until I was at school a couple months later... pulled it out and the first can tasted horrible...
the second can wasn't as bad...
and the third and fourth cans were pretty good...
Don't remember what happened to cans 5 and 6.

Answer 5

Most beer is heated for curing and to kill bacteria. Most of them can be stored for long periods in a cupboard, or even in your garage. (Though some beers, listed as "Cold Brewed" actually will be destroyed by 'room temp' storage.)

Answer 6

Room temperature is OK, but don't drink it when it has the room temp. Cool it before you swallow it.

I need a beer now! See you later.

Answer 7

It depends what type of beer it is, if it's real ale in a barrel/keg it needs to be stored at a cool temperature, if it's canned or bottled it doesn't much matter where you store it.

Answer 8

This Q implies that you'd have beer STORED in your house and NOT drink it?! Does not compute...

Answer 9

As long as you store it in a cool dark place it will be fine.

Answer 10

not without efecting the taste but definitley not coors because it has no additives or preservitives.dont get me wrong coors is the shizzle when its fresh & cold!