Same here, although I thought warm (flat) beer was traditional in England?

Seriously though, that's why when you go abroad in Europe (and drink in places not largely populated by British tourists), you almost never see pint glasses used for serving beer/lager, simply because unless you're a *very* fast drinker, your last sips, leading up to and including the last one, will be considerably warmer than the first!

However, if you serve beer (lager) in smaller glasses, you drink it quicker, so it stays cooler... In Germany, it's therefore not uncommon (especially in traditional Brauhaus') for Pils beer to be served in tall, but very small, thin 0.2L glasses, ice-cold, with waiters/waitresses on hand to offer immediate ice-cold refills!

Like these (and almost a third of the content is taken up by a lovely frothy head):



Germans HATE warm and/or flat beer... I've got a waiter's 'serving 'tray' with a handle, which holds 8 of those glasses, that I use for parties, and which one of Del's German relatives bought for me from a traditional Cologne Brauhaus.

Marco.