Shelf life of bottled beer???

[BeerMe80]

How long will bottled beer keep?

 

[Chadwick]

Hop flavor will taper off with time. But you'd be surprised how long it will last for. Just the other day there was a guy that left his beer sitting in the secondary for, get ready for this, 10 years. He found it and was like, "Oh yeah, I was making beer a decade ago". He added some yeast and bottled it anyways. It turned out just fine.

As long as the seal on the bottle isn't broken, it will last a long time. Really high alcohol beers, think barleywines, can even develop new flavors with years of aging. I personally have opened a bottle of my fathers beer that was 30 years old. It wasn't anything to write home about, but it was still a drinkable beer. Of course, it probably was never a great deal better than that anyhow. (My father tended to use lager yeasts fermented at saison temps)

 

[johnsnownw]

(my father tended to use lager yeasts fermented at saison temps)

lol

 

[gromitdj]

How long the beer will last in the bottle is directly proportional to how good your sanitation practices are, as well as how they are treated while in the bottle.

 

[brettg20]

How long will bottled beer keep?

There are so many factors to really answer your question with a direct answer.

 

[Zuljin]

I've had some home brew that was around five years old. Maybe six. Seven? Some had sort of a cheap wine taste. Some had faded out flavors. Three years is no problem, even stored at room temperature.

Are you wanting to make an aged reserve box? I do that and am going to move it to the fridge, now that I have a beer fridge.

 

[BridgewaterBrewer]

Not to disagree with any of the above, but I would add that flavors tend to fade after about 6 months if they are not refrigerated.

 

[IL1kebeer]

Depends on the beer and the care of the filled bottles. Also, your bottling technique will have a difference as well.

 

[CastleHollow]

Until you drink it.

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