(LITERAL) Cool or Not Cool?...Serving Good Beer in Frosty Mugs

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So wait...did I ever mention that I like the craft beer?

Tis true. In my dozen years in Brooklyn, I've had myself delicious craft beers in pretty much every bar in Park Slope, forgoing the beloved Buds & Yuenglings & Heinekens of the masses. Down with the proletariat! Give me something hoppy. Give me something flavorful. Give me something that’s been brewed in the tradition of the Mayans.

"Great taste, less filling" be damned.

It wasn't always this way, but it got better over time. After a teenage existence where I didn't have a single drink until post-graduation, in college I cut my teeth on bottles of Red Dog & Sam Adams (which, c'mon Sam Adams...other than your specialty beers, you kinda suck). I carried around six-packs of Newcastle in my hippie backpack at frat parties. When I went home for the holidays, my dad always had a few frosty mugs waiting in the freezer so I could pour myself a glass of Nutfield or whatever NH craft beer was available at the moment.

Eventually, after around my 5,000th craft beer, it dawned on me...FROSTY MUGS KILL THE FLAVOR OF A GOOD BEER. Science & taste buds & freezing point or something. Craftbeer.com can explain it way better than I ever could.

I get it. A frosty mug can work quite well with a light beer outdoors on a hotass summer day, but in any other context FUCK THAT NOISE.

On a related note, I like Dram Shop very much. I've been there the last two Mondays. Love their burgers. Love their fried mac & cheese. Love their beer selection.

SO WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DEAL WITH THE GODDAMN FROSTY MUGS? Who the hell serves beers in frosty mugs any more? What is this...a pre-9/11 world? Come next month, when the Farmer’s Almanac predictions come true & we have a bitter-as-fuck winter, who wants an ice cold beer?

Quit it, Dram Shop. Maybe it’s tradition. Maybe it's some other fucking thing. I don’t know. I don't care. When you serve me a Smuttynose in a frosty mug, you might as well be tossing an ice cube in my beer.

Don't even get me started on what the Europeans would think of the beer temperature.

Seriously, Dram Shop. In the words of Uncle Joey...Cut. It. Out.

What do y'all think? Are you a sadist who's down with the frosty mug? LITERALLY cool or LITERALLY not cool?

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