12 yr old home brew.

[Revvy]

Nope...had a great texture, and flavor was good too. Can't wait to try the IPA.

Which will probably be more like a pale ale.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

No, it's not worth trying. I suggest you send it all to me for proper disposal.

 

[Spartan1979]

I have a barleywine that's more than 15 years old. I opened a bottle last year and it was fantastic! So I opened another and it was nearly as good. Drinkable, but nothing to write home about.

 

[thepartsmancometh]

My dad made his last batch of homebrew in 1999. I think I still have a few old bottles of that coffee stout left, I should break them out. They are bottled in old (pbr) quart bottles, so I gotta make sure I'm in the mood for it!

 

[dgremark]

I wish I could make mine last even half that long! I usually can't even get past the green beer time frame! LOL Ya ya need a pipe line but I brew almost every week a 5 gal batch and it always seems to disappear.

 

[IanPC]

I will say, it had quite the flavor.

 

[IanPC]

I have an NB caribou slobber brown on deck, then a deadringer IPA. Dry Irish stout in the fridge now.

 

[MacGruber]

Pics? I'm so interested in this thread. The oldest homebrew I've had was two years old. Not bad, but not good because it was from my second batch. I keep hoping I'll find some IPAs or Pumpkin beers somewhere in my house that I accidentally hid.

 

[barrooze]

Found an old homebrew of my dad's a few years ago. It was about 25 years old since he stopped brewing in the mid-80s. It was refrigerated the entire time. I (stupidly) popped the cap while holding the bottle over a drawer of kitchen utensils. The bottle immediately, IMMEDIATELY erupted into a foam volcano, spewing rank stale beer foam all over the kitchen before I made it to the sink. My mother was not pleased.

The moral of this story, if the bottle and process was not thoroughly sanitary when you bottled it 12 years ago, you may have an infection, causing a wonderous foam volcano of your own. You have been warned.

 

[flyingfinbar]

I'm curious to see how the hop flavor and aroma held up in the IPA. Cool thread.

 

[IanPC]

I opened the first one in the bathtub. Thanks for the warning though. I spilled a budlight in my mothers washing machine...seems like mothers don't like beer where it shouldnt be. Weird.

 

[IanPC]

Old red...is terrible...didn't make me gag...but Its not worth drinking.