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I have read in these forums that secondary and aging temps even into the upper 70s are OK (not optimal by any means, but OK) for less delicate meads. What about for beers?

After I bottle, I generally stick my beers in the crawlspace under my house; Arizona does not bless us with cool temperatures until Novemberish, though. And I hear beers are rather more perishable. So should I be putting them in a separate cooler or something? Or are these temps also OKish for beers?
 
Those temps are not ideal for long term storage, it's fine for bottle carbonating. I can say though, the closer to cellar temps you keep any of these things (beer, mead, wine), the better they will keep. Light is also a big spoiler, although that is more true for beer than for mead or wine.

I wouldn't keep beer stored at more than 72-75F for more than a month or two, but that's just me.
 
It can be done, I've had beers around for close to a year wandering around between 68F and 74F... it's not ideal but it is what it is.

I only now have somewhere cool and dark to store my meads/beers, and even then, it's nowhere near cellar temps, I just happen to have one cool room in my place. Before I kept things in the warm kitchen with nothing but the dark glass and shade from other bottles in the (open-to-light-sided) wine rack... and they did fine for in some cases almost 2 years. I'm sure they would have been better had they been in a cool dark place, but it by no means wrecked them or anything.
 
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