THANK YOU for not dodging the question due to it being "the wrong forum section" , I will look over that now

Edit : And I have honestly no recollection of seeing any of those "Ale" brands in a store ever in my life , not even in the liquor stores

They're all common brands in England, where I'm from. I don't think ales are quite as commonplace in America as they are in Britain - even if they are I can't honestly say I know many American ale brands.

Nord have special racial power to chillup their tankard just by holding it in hands, too bad it work only once per day but Nords drink most strong beverage or make bar fight until fall into death sleep to next day :teehee:

Frost element magic - replacing refrigerators since 1994.

Also, yes, those ales will not be available in the states. What happens over there is that the ales available depend on your region as the breweries for it are much smaller - mostly microbrewery style.
Beware though, many of the bigger names you may find that put "Ale" on the bottle label have actually packaged some fizzy ale flavoured soda... horrible.

What might be available in many places are the export beers like Newcastle Brown and Tetleys. They don't taste anywhere the same as back home, but they're an OK approximation. Oh, also Smithwicks seems quite prevalent over there.

Now, this is way way way off topic for the Skyrim board, so if you want to discuss it more, please follow the advice of the moderator.

You have never lived in a poorly or uninsulated house in the winter time. Especially one heated from one fire place. It's cold except near the fire..

Ever heard of ice cellars? Probably not, there isn't even an english Wikipedia article for it, but these things really existed.

Back in the olden days they used to sore them underground to keep them cool. I'm looking forward to getting drunk on some ale/mead and possibly starting a good old Oblivion style bar brawl! :foodndrink:

Magic.

If the bear is too warm for you, dunk it in the snow

If one observes the "barmaid" screen, in the far right corner of the screen is a barrel with a tap.

And on the counter with the cheese, is a bottle of what appears to be wine.

From appearances in that screen, it looks like most beverages in Skyrim are served at room temperature.

Some meads are quite good at room temperature. Like the sweeter dessert meads. Drier meads should be served chilled.

I assume the mead in Skyrim is of the sweeter variety.

I have heard of instances, such as in the case of rum, sometimes a hot poker was inserted into the drink to warm it.

Edit: To add http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/02/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim-Busty-Wench.jpg

At -40, one can chill a beer in about 2 minutes outside. And one can throw a cup of coffee into the air and it turns into frozen dust that floats away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtbH68tobwc

:spotted owl: There were good beers before fridges. Now there are both sorts, fridgey and olde style. Why do people assume all beers must be cold, you wouldn't put a bottle of red wine in a fridge next to the cheap white.

The number 1 selling beer in the world budweiser, #2 bud light. WTF world. Good beer is catching on in the states, but we've already made poop like coors, miller, and bud far too much money. People I emplore you to drink beer with flavor.

The problem is we Americans think hops is as critical an ingredient to beer as barley....which is insane. I hate American beers because of how all flavor is drowned out by the damn hops. Hell, hops was only added to beer starting in the 1200's as a preservative and even then it took a while to catch on.

As for the OP, as others have said...cold beers in Skyrim aren't an issue. A long time ago beer/ale was only mildly alcoholic, it really was just a safe alternative to water (which often was unclean). I am glad some microbreweries are bringing back the old way of no-hops beers and ales, they taste a lot better (usually).

You've clearly never been to Britian and had a pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord. Lovelly, warm, thick dark ale :drool:

Anyhow, ale was invented as a way of sterilising water by turning yeast to alcohol. (In China / surrounding region they boiled and flavoured the water and made tea, hence Oriental people's metabolism recognises alcohol as the poison it is and it makes them sick.) Hence it don't need refrigerating.

HAHAHA :rofl:

http://www.newsfood.com/data/iNodes/2011/06/16/20110616195733-9efdbd5e//Standards/250x.jpg

Or just punch it in the stomach and it'll cough a can/bottle up like a good vending machine.

BevMo has some of those. I think I've seen Speckled around the most. It's decent.


Will Skyrim have some good IPA? Or perhaps a nice stout...

Thank you very much CCNA. I owe you a debt of gratitude. Up until this point, I hadn't realised that the first 15 years of my life, where I thought I lived in a house which was uninsulated, single glazed, had a hardwood floor, uncarpeted and had a crawl space beneath, was really just a hallucination.

Likewise, I hadn't realised that the big brick cavity through the middle of our house was actually just the work of an incompetent builder, and not the chimney I always took it to be.

I'm amazed as to the quality of the hallucinogenics that I was on. See, I always believed that our house was heated to about 20 degrees Celsius by that single fire place, or rather, the downstairs living area (lounge, passageway, dining room, bathroom and toilet) and the rooms upstairs adjoining the chimney were.

Its amazing that I appear to be still on those hallucinogenics, because the I was sure that the house I live in now is small, made of wood, with no insulation in the walls, single glazed, has a crawlspace separating the house from the ground, just like the first one, is heated by a single fire place and is damn hot during winter.