pkeeler

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Had a flood in our basement. While moving stuff around to get to all the puddles, I found a one gallon bottle of mead. This might be 12 years old, at least 5 years. Hard to tell since I never marked the bottle.

Tried it, was stale. I don't think the screw top held up. Pretty looking though, and smelled nice.

malkore

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when aging that long, you take some gamble by not using sulfites to stabilize the mead and prevent oxidation.

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Malkore
Primary: English Mild
On tap: Pale Ale, Lancelot's Wheat, English Brown Ale, Steam Beer, HoovNuts IPA
Bottled: MOAM, Braggot, Raspberry Melomel, Merlot, Apfelwein, Pyment, Sweet mead, Cabernet
Gal in 2009: 27, Gal in 2010: 34, Gal in 2011: 13, Gal in 2012: 10

babalu87

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Wouldnt waxing the bottles eliminate (or at least minimize) this issue?

ibrewit

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I have a few bottles left from a batch made 9 years ago. I bottled in beer bottles with oxygen absorbing crowns, stored at basement temperature and did not use sulfites. I had one last night, it tasted great.

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