can you drink 5 year old beer??

[rastapasta]

Afternoon

A pressing issue has emerged, post a spare room cleanup. We got a novelty bottle of local brew (legit proper brewery with nice beer) for our wedding in 2015 and banished it to the spare room during renovations. The wife has dug it out. It has never been opened and there is no 'use by' date. So the question is whether it is in fact drinkable?

Im in two minds.

1. its alcohol so its drinkable
2. its only got 5.0% alcohol so maybe it isnt drinkable or doesnt preserve like spirits

what do you all think??

down the sink or down the hatch?

[mickyh7]

Maybe have a taste?
If it smells and tastes like Piss - tip it.
If it tastes and smells nice, neck it.
Very simple really.

[bad company]

I wouldn’t. It’ll taste horrible.

[toasty]

lager? probably.

local brew? not a chance.

[bad company]

toasty said:

lager? probably.

local brew? not a chance.

Lager doesn’t taste of anything to start with so what’s the problem?

[Roboticarm]

As a student we once drank some homebrew which had been sat in the garage for 2 years... Everyone was sick.

[rev-erend]

Unless you are really hard up, I would dump it.

It will very likely give you the squits or worse..

Just not worth the risk.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Don't listen to them, go for it.

[Richard-390a0]

I'm in the go for it camp as well & if you've stock piled bog rolls this could be a way of getting rid of a few if you get the squits win, win, win!!!!

[bad company]

rev-erend said:

Unless you are really hard up, I would dump it.

It will very likely give you the squits or worse..

Just not worth the risk.

The op would certainly be likely to dump after it.

[mickyh7]

Who Knows, it could be the cure for Corvid 19.
You'll be rich!

[Sheets Tabuer]

Grew up in a pub and we'd often nick the out of date bottles in the back of the cellar, some were years old and I never once had the sts.

Woke up in a few weird places mind you, not sure if that was related to the age of the beer.

[Douglas Quaid]

If it’s sealed and been in the dark, what’s the problem? Drink it you fool!

[silobass]

I think it will taste awful but I'd be giving it a go just in case.

[matt666]

I used to homebrew and bottle condition, up to a year it would get better then gradually decline after that. I opened some stuff that was two years old that was definitely off. If it's excessively frothy when you open it that's a good sign it's off. Also if it smells bad it will probably taste bad too. Drinking off beer won't make you ill so have a taste, if it tastes good, you're good to go!

[Gary29]

Roboticarm said:

As a student we once drank some homebrew which had been sat in the garage for 2 years... Everyone was sick.

Yes, but is that because you all drank 15 pints of it or becuase it was 2 years old?!

[andy ted]

I had one of these the other day

https://www.beermerchants.com/boon-oude-geuze?gcli...

Best before date was 2039... so some beer can last for ages!

[rev-erend]

Gary29 said:

Roboticarm said:

As a student we once drank some homebrew which had been sat in the garage for 2 years... Everyone was sick.

Yes, but is that because you all drank 15 pints of it or becuase it was 2 years old?!

[rev-erend]

andy ted said:

I had one of these the other day

https://www.beermerchants.com/boon-oude-geuze?gcli...

Best before date was 2039... so some beer can last for ages!

6.5% no wonder it will keep.

[Roboticarm]

Gary29 said:

Roboticarm said:

As a student we once drank some homebrew which had been sat in the garage for 2 years... Everyone was sick.

Yes, but is that because you all drank 15 pints of it or becuase it was 2 years old?!

Now that you mention it we did drink the home brew after we ran out of actual beer so maybe the home brew wasn't the cause of the sick lol