Can you 'cook' a beer if shipped in hot temperatures

Beer and Spirits
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Does beer shipping present the same issues as wine shipping?

i.e. if i ordered some online can they ship to me year round, or also wait for fall/winter/spring shipping season?

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The thread title is a bit misleading…as I expected to read about ‘a beer in heat’, wondering how you’d know exactly how nubile and wanton a beer is, sexually…

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i should probably amend…

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Anything with effervescence is in much MORE danger at elevated temps. Aside from just cooking the beer, it could blow the top off or even explode the bottle.

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Mark, I don’t think that I would worry about it being in Wa. I’m in the sweltering heat of the desert and have stopped ordering anything online till Fall.

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Beer is more sensitive to temperature than wine. Figure that the time a beer will stay “good” is cut in half each time the temperature rises 10° C., starting at 0°, so a beer a beer kept at 50 ages twice as fast, and a beer held at 68° ages four times as fast. A beer that gets above 100° for any material period of time is toast.

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Just make sure the mountains stay blue. newhere

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eh? please share in the joke? [wow.gif]

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Are they really using refrigerated trucks to ship micros across the country? This is a question I’ve often wondered and while I would prefer cold shipping I just am doubtful it really exits. Maybe all of my beer from out of state is has always been toast and I therefore can’t tell [pile-on.gif]

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Robert,
I’ve had this issue even with in-state breweries. The distributor I plan on using in CA has said that they use refrigerated trucks, but I don’t know if that is a standard practice or not. I’m just as concerned (maybe more so) about how the beer is stored at the distributor. Is the warehouse temperature controlled? How are deliveries treated? etc. I’m sure as hell going to find out before I choose my distributors!