Bottling...

[dan09554]

How long can I expect beer to stay fresh after bottling??

 

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

It depends on the beer and how sanitary your bottles are. Average beers around 1.050 tend to start going downhill after a year or so...this has been my experience anyway. Bigger beers 1.080+ can be good for much longer. I've had some high gravity stouts in bottles for close to three years that taste great.

 

[Revvy]

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/

Beer's like wine, a lot of them improve with age....That's why stone has "vertical epic" with vintage, and people have vertical tasting parties

I made a beer that won't even be opened before 5 years go by on . https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/he...emorial-5-year-aged-barleywine-recipe-195096/

The first beer I brewed was a sweet stout. And I got 3 years out of it. But I didn't put any more bottles aside to see.

 

[dan09554]

Thanks evreyone. Gonna be brewing my first batch next week.