Peter:
Thanks for the information!
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John W. Kulig
Professor of Psychology
Director, Psychology Honors
Plymouth State University
Plymouth NH 03264
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From: Peter Harzem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:34 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Re: { SPAM 2 }:Re: European customs (was Haven't seen an
obese Danish person.)
On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:23 AM, John Kulig wrote:
Peter:
I am not a traveler by nature, so I cannot remember where I picked up my
preference for room temperature beer (and wine). I had a friend in high
school whose father claimed that in England during World War II the locals
used to warm the buckets (or some other container) of beer/ale with pokers
from the fireplaces. In fact, this story may have inspired me to try warm
beer. Perhaps, with heating fuel so expensive then, they took every
opportunity to add warmth?
Maybe there is a brain/personality factor in here. I'm not real high on the
sensation seeking scales, and, I also take my coffee less hot than other
people and I drive slow and don't gamble. Are the other "warm beer" people
out there also introverted, non-sensation seekers??
John,
Thanks for your response. There is the centuries old custom in English pubs
of 'drawing' the beer, i.e. pulling the long and usually ornate brass
handles to draw the beer from the barrels that are in the pub's cellar.
Those cellars were specially built for pubs to keep the beer (in barrels)
cool. That is the origin of what is now called the 'draft beer' but, alas,
newly built pubs do not much bother with cellars and use more recent
techniques. In my student years in London one would indeed get disgustingly
warm coke etc. but never the beer.
As for the practice of using hot pokers to heat liquids in war-time England:
Through the second world war coal (used most commonly for heating) was
severely rationed as was e.g. hot water. People were asked to take a bath no
more than once a week, and to fill the bath no higher than two inches (yes,
2 inches). Bear in mind that the bathroom would be unheated, and winters in
London are bitterly cold. So, hot pokers were used, when available, to heat
water (I doubt beer) so that the heat of the poker would not be wasted.
I do apologize to all for this long description, and I will not write on
this again. For a non-beer drinker (not non-drinker!) I have said a lot
about beer. I just wanted to give some information which I know to be
accurate.
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
USA
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