"too room-temperature"

[lolipop90]

Hello,

I wanted to know if I can turn the phrase 'room temperature' into an adjective to make the following phrase: Sue couldn't enjoy the drink, no matter how expensive Huge said it'd been. It was way too room-temperature for her taste and she winced, thinking back to home and how a cool Oklahoma beer would beat the high-class, colorfully fashionable concoction any day.

If it's not possible, how could I rephrase it to express the same idea?

I appreciate your help!

 

[teechar]

How about "It was nowhere near cold enough?"
Also, I suspect you mean Hugh.

 

[lolipop90]

Indeed, I meant Hugh! I think that may work, yes, thank you

 

[SoothingDave]

You can't really be "too" room temperature. Room temperature is not an extreme.

 

[GoesStation]

You can write too warm. This will contrast with the cool temperature that Sue prefers.

If you were writing about a hot drink, you'd write too cool​ for the same reason.

 

[GoesStation]

Note that I wrote warm and cool in my examples, not hot and cold. The reader will mentally set a scale where warm and cool are intermediate temperatures appropriate for the kind of thing you're writing about. A warm winter's day in my region might be in the forties or fifties Fahrenheit (roughly five to fifteen Celsius), but a warm summer day would be somewhere around eighty (27 C). A cool winter day would be moderately cold, say thirty to forty (-1 to 5 C); a cool summer night might get down to sixty (15 C).

 

[lolipop90]

Thank you so much! That's such great advice!

 

[Tdol]

I have to say that it sounds OK to me, but some English beers are served at room temperature and I dislike them. Beer should be very cold for me, so I get the issue.

 

[Rover_KE]

British pubs serve draught beer at cellar temperature: 50-55 degrees F/10-12.7 C.

 

[Tdol]

It doesn't make it taste any better to me. <lagerman>