What is your oldest beer?

[shelly_belly]

I have a few bottles of stout from 15 years ago, 1 bottle of robust porter from 2 years ago, and a 3 gallon carboy full of muscadine wine from 2 years ago. I also have 2 5 gal kegs that were full of beer when I bought them a year ago from another HBT member.

 

[wolverinebrewer]

I have 8 bottles left of a RIS that is 15 months old. A barley wine brewed last New Year's eve that hasn't been touched yet and a few bottles of ED Wort original apfelwein that was made last April. Plus, some of Yoopers banana wine that I won't touch for a couple more years.

 

[Hammy71]

I have two 22oz bottles left of a Chimay Blue clone I brewed back in September of 2009. Tried one back in the summer and it is really good. I also have about a 12 pack of a Honey Ale that I made back in June of '09. I'm pretty good at hiding beer from myself. Keeping it sitting around warm while I have six beers on tap helps too.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

I dont keep beers long. If i'm spending money on it i want to drink it. I just need to by in pairs and hide the other. I got two Saint Arnolds Pumkinator that are 3 months old. I know one wont make it pass Christmas and idk about the other one lol

 

[falconnuke]

I admire some of you guys, I doubt I will get any of mine past a year. I'm going to try REALLY hard to keep from drinking the first one I ever bottled, which is an Apfelwein. The trick is keeping it away and my fridge full.

It's actually not too hard to do. Stick it in a box, hide it, and forget about that box.

 

[zacster]

I have some 2 year old Nut Brown Ale. It had a foaming problem and wasn't very good, but most of it is gone. There are probably 6-8 bottles left. Usually my brews last 3-4 months, except I'll save one or two last bottles for longer. But even these don't last forever.

 

[squirrelly]

I have a keg of barley wine that is going to be cellared until my son is 21. He and the beer are both 2 years old now. I also have about 40 gallons of double IPA that is about 3 years old, and that is just because that gets brewed 3 times a week. My wife has an open fermented Belgian strong and a grouse that are going on three years down in the cellar, and a Scottish wee heavy that gets tapped every Christmas for the past 4 years.

 

[jiggs_casey]

With all the batches of things I have going on I'm betting it will be easy to save than I thought. For the sake of having an actual plan I'm going to label and save my first bottle of everything I make and store it away.

I tend to drink all mine within a few weeks after their carbed. I have however, started keeping a bomber of each one and putting a label on them and putting them on a display shelf. I am hoping that doing this will encourage me to save more. My 'private reserve', if you will.

My oldest is about five months old now. :cross:

 

[Whut]

I've a case of various brews I brewed last January/February still around. So, 10 to 11 months. The first bottle of my mead from last May won't be cracked till next May.

 

[wailingguitar]

Homebrew I have a couple bottles of stout that I made in around '04.

I also have maybe 4 or 5 7oz bottles of Old Crustacean from when I worked at Rogue in the mid 90s

 

[danmdevries]

I'm lucky if a 5g keg lasts 2 weeks. Bottled I think 09-15 of this year I have a beer that tastes like hand soap I've got two bottles left. That's my oldest.

I work too much to catch up on my pipeline and when I do, ill brew 2-3 kegs and throw em in kegs on the next brew day. Someday I'd like to work less than 70hrs/week and enjoy my hobbies.

 

[Dog House Brew]

I just had a bottle of 4 year old Denny's BVIP. Shame I only have 2 left, because it is still pert good.

 

[Walker]

I have a shelf full of bottles that are all over 5 years old. I know this because I have not bottled a batch of beer since 2006 (started kegging).

Every now and then I open one while I am brewing. I never drink the whole thing. The beers are still clean, meaning "not infected". However, the hops have COMPLETELY faded from all of them and they are all just big sweet malt bombs. At leats I know my sanitation was rock solid back in 2006.

 

[brewzofo1]

got two bottles each of vertical epic starting from 06-11.

 

[Embracethefunk]

A trippel that my dad and I brewed in 2006 to celebrate the birth of my daughter. We only open 1 bottle a year on her birthday, but I didn't think about that plan until I only had enough left to last until her 11th birthday...so I need to brew that recipe again!

 

[limulus]

I have one 6L TAD bottle of Ed Worts Haus Ale that is 13mos old. It is in my "aging" room in my basement.

 

[zaprowsdower]

Old Rasputin clone that I brewed in May 2011. Out of the 50 original bottles I have 3 16 oz. bottles left. One WILL make it to May 2012

 

[nukinfuts29]

A trippel that my dad and I brewed in 2006 to celebrate the birth of my daughter. We only open 1 bottle a year on her birthday, but I didn't think about that plan until I only had enough left to last until her 11th birthday...so I need to brew that recipe again!

Thats pretty cool. A week before SWMBO's scheduled c-section i plan to start a long term 5 gallon batch of wine for this same reason. Cool idea about the birthday.

 

[weirdboy]

I just found some bottles from various mid-2008 batches in a box and stuck a few in the fridge 2-3 weeks ago. I tried opening one of the tripels from that timeframe at our last homebrew club meeting, but it had gone pretty far south...no carbonation and waaaay too sweet of a finish for a tripel. In fact, I am still trying to figure out why that bottle was sweet, because I don't remember any of them tasting that sweet at the time. I remember them being fairly dry and with lots of banana esters, with some spice but not balanced with the esters.

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

I've got a case BW that is about 19 months old and 4 bombers of a Rye IPA'ish beer I made in Feb 2010, so about 22 months. Both had issues, so hopefully age will make them shine.

 

[lumpher]

a few bottles of 3yo apfelwein and i just found a bottle of 2.5yo schwarzbier stashed deep in my kegerator

 

[BrewHeads]

Not a home brew but super old. Its a Sam Adams Triple Bock from '97 I believe. Super old, looked like soy sauce... Friend who collects beer gave it too me. He always hooks me up with rare stuff or east coast beers I can't get.

 

[milldoggy]

Not a home brew but super old. Its a Sam Adams Triple Bock from '97 I believe. Super old, looked like soy sauce... Friend who collects beer gave it too me. He always hooks me up with rare stuff or east coast beers I can't get.

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bought a case of that back in the day, think my brother still has one, stuff was horrible.

 

[theveganbrewer]

bought a case of that back in the day, think my brother still has one, stuff was horrible.

+1.

I just looked and I've only been brewing for 3 months. So I've made it 3 months so far. I bottled my 1st batch before going into kegging, and still have a 6-pack of that lying around. I'll try one at 6 months and then at a year.

 

[BrewHeads]

bought a case of that back in the day, think my brother still has one, stuff was horrible.

Yeah I couldn't finish it, smelled like soy sauce too but the. Again it was from 97

 

[Borisbbadd]

A Russian Imperial Stout, that is about 3 years old.

 

[jonmohno]

I still have my first two which im debating to give away(my Dad) or try.My third which was a pumpkin (experimental recipe almost out of my a$$)was excellent @ 9months which i didnt think was too great up until then.Other than that i still have a handfull of each and all have aged pretty gracefully,even the ipa,pale ale.

 

[TotemWolf]

Of course I keep mead and wine for as long as can keep hands off of it.

But as for beer I have a 2 and half year old bottle of Holiday style English Ole Ale. That won't be getting much older though because it's going in the glass this Xmas.

 

[OldWorld]

One year for me... a smoked wheat ale. It was delightfully hazy and hoppy even after a full year. The darn thing didn't taste oxidized and overall the carbonation was fabulous with a great head. 100 percent malt extract brew to boot. Surprised it was so good.

It had to have been the new zealand hop freshness.

 

[Embracethefunk]

Thats pretty cool. A week before SWMBO's scheduled c-section i plan to start a long term 5 gallon batch of wine for this same reason. Cool idea about the birthday.

I actually planned ahead for the beer I brewed when our second child was born ‘Lil Nugget Ale with Brett « Embrace The Funk