Treat your beer right

Lew Bryson has a story in Portfolio about how to care for your beer.

I learned about that and other ways in which beer can go bad by doing a series of experiments on some freshly bottled beer from a local brewery. I put it in bright sunshine. I froze it. I slow-roasted it in the oven. I subjected it to eight cycles of chilling and warming. I felt bad mistreating beer like that, but those beers suffered so other beers could be better. Here's what I found.

The short answers are: sunlight is a killer in just a few minutes, hot-cold-hot is no big deal, though avoid huge temperature extremes, and try to drink it fresh.