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How cold should wine and beer be? A serving-temperature guide by style

Serve white wine too cold and red too warm, and you taste less of both. The same goes for beer: a fridge-cold stout tastes thin, a warm lager tastes flat.

Pick a style in the picker below to see its ideal range in °C or °F, and what a few degrees changes in the glass.

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A thermometer beside labels for sparkling wine, white, lager, IPA, stout and full red, with the cold range highlighted

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