"Tom,
In my lifetime I have met many an Anglophile and enjoyed their company. They adopted the English lifestyle by wearing Huntsman jackets, Lobb shoes, Turnbull and Asser shirts, they even drank their gin and tonic without ice but I never, ever, heard of an American stooping to drink warm beer.
Bob"
Bob:
That particular example is a good and interesting point. On reflection of my life it is pretty staggering just how many Americans I've been surrounded by over the years who couldn't be described any other way than complete Anglophiles! Even their accents weren't exactly American.
They were all pretty much willing to embrace anything and everything that smacked of England and the English but one glaring exception was certainly drinks of any kind that were WARM!
The fact is almost all Americans like most things they eat and drink to be either very hot or very cold and as a nation we have always snickered at the miniscule size of refigerators and such (we called them Ice-boxes) not just in England but in most of the rest of the world and the thing that always got us tittering were those ridiculous little ice containers in bars and such in England that we felt were not much bigger than some of the mugs we use over here.
If I took more than one ice-cube out of those ridiculous little things in England it frankly made me feel like I was exhibiting the maximum amount of what might have been called "Ugly-Americanitis."
WARM BEER!??
Jeeesus Robert, England and its artistorcracy may define the last word in style and sophistication but you blokes sure missed the boat on that one. ICE COLD BEER and cocktails, that is the only way to live properly, My Good Man!