Is 30 yr old beer going to be any good?

Revvy said:

What the hell is there to be scared of? Nothing pathogenic can exist in beer. So you can't get sick. Why do people get amped up about this? It's not a big deal....

How many times do we have to say this. Why are people freaking afraid of this????

Beer doesn't go "bad" unless your sanitization is weak. Since nothing PATHOGENIC can exist in beer/wine/cider/mead, there should never be a reason to ever fear tasting something like this, no matter how old it is. Yeah, it may taste like crap, it may be vinegar, but NOTHING that could happen, could ever cause harm to anyone.

It's not worth passing by on something that could be amazing, because of fear.....

Noone thinks twice about drinking old wine do they?????

Beer is really no different than wine, homebrew or otherwise. Properly stored it can last and be drinkable for 100s of years.

To put it in perspective, in the Dec 07 Zymurgy Charlie Papazian reviewed bottles of homebrew going back to the first AHC competition that he had stored, and none of them went bad, some had not held up but most of them he felt were awesome...We're talking over 20 years worth of beers.

This is a great thread about one of our guys tasting 4-5 years of his stored brew.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/revisiting-my-classics-160672/

And I brewed an og 1.150, 150 IBU barleywine that I won't be opening for 5 years.

Not to mention the fact that there are vertical tasting for certain beers like Stone epic, where people collect each years beer and then sample a flight of them going back in time.

I just had this expericence not too long ago... We tried 48 year old beer today. One was interesting and drinkable, and one was gnarly.

Mbowenze has a thread about tasting an over 100 year old beer recently. And In my history thread there's a video of the OZ and James Drink to Britain tv series where they taste a beer older than that.....one that goes back to Napoleanic times iirc.

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Bigbeavk said:

I'm really tempted there's over 100 bottles and he only wants $75 bux! At least I would have plenty of bombers to refill.

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Bigbeavk said:

LOL I just called the guy and he said he used a google image since his camera is broken. He sounded like quite a character but I'm heading over tomorrow and check it out! Wish me luck! Once I get it I'll post up some pics!

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EnjoyGoodBeer said:

Again were is this at? Because I collect beer bottles. Would love to vuy unopeaned bottles like that. But I got to drink it for ne to save it.

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gbx said:

137 year old beer was good, why not 30 year old beer?

http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/an-1875-arctic-ale-tasting/

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Bigbeavk said:

Now you just settle down there big fella. Those that know me will tell you I like to share.

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Bigbeavk said:

Well I made a hell of a trip over to Perry Hall, Md in rush hour traffic and picked up the collection. Here's a link to the pics http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h405/Beerme1/

There may be a couple I would like to try but with all the stuff in the bottom of the bottles on some of them I think I'll pass. I personally don't think is was a great deal and the guy was really lets say a character to say the least. Anyway if anyone wants some for their collection let me know. there were 94 bottles and I have over 2hrs of round trip travel plus $75 invested. If there is interest we can take it to the classified section.

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Revvy said:

Yeah, that's our own Mbowenz who I mentioned in my previous post.

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RmikeVT said:

I live in Baltimore, I will drive to Fredrick to try the Sammy smith, Newcastle and Harp. Ill bring some homebrew with me. We can party.

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