In 1992 my 2 uncles and my father brewed a couple of batches of beer. I was 15 years old and they let me help them bottle. I'll never forget that night because I had fun bottling and it was the night I finally got to 3rd base with a girl. Procedures and equipment were different back then, it was an extract with a boilover. They primaried in a bottling bucket and we got tons of sediment in the bottles. We were hanging out on my uncles pond playing hockey and ice skating,they brought the homebrews to try. They sucked!! So they stuck em in the snow. Ice cold they weren't so bad.( my father let me try 2). I kept one bottle from the first batch and kept it on my bookshelf. It sat there all through high school up until I was 23 years old. At my wedding reception we cracked it open and shared it. One of my uncles said, "wow! It still sucks!" I guess my point is if it sucked when it was first brewed it will probably suck 8 years later. But if it was good 8 years ago it might be still good now. All I know is we didn't die or get sick from the old beer, so I say try it. Sorry for the story, I got a little reminiscent there...