# How old is your beer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876 "2018-05-27T00:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/1 "2018-05-27T00:01:35Z")
Not literally the beer in your hand, but its maker and traditions? I’m drinking an Alexander Keith from Nova Scotia, established 1820. I’ve not done any research to see if they’ve fudged that date at all (e.g. Continuous operation since 1820?) So, how old does your beer company claim to be? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/2 "2018-05-27T00:05:16Z")
Keith’s is my go-to on tap. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/3 "2018-05-27T00:05:37Z")
The beer currently in my hand says right on it that it was established in Milwaukee in 1844. I’d ask for a cite for that but it’s IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/4 "2018-05-27T00:06:38Z")
Guinness - established 1759. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/5 "2018-05-27T00:08:16Z")
[Anchor Brewery](https://www.anchorbrewing.com/). A youngster from 1896. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/6 "2018-05-27T00:19:01Z")
I have here a Goose Island IPA. They’ve been around since, what the 90s or something. 1990s. I don’t know. Let’s see if I can look it up before the edit timeout… ETA: 1988, with an expansion in 1995. And in more recent years a sellout to AB which concerned me, but they’re still good. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/7 "2018-05-27T00:29:56Z")
Rolling rock. Wiki says 1939 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/8 "2018-05-27T00:36:38Z")
OK, that was the last Goose Island. Now I’m having a Lagunitas IPA. 1993. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/9 "2018-05-27T00:37:14Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > OK, that was the last Goose Island. Now I’m having a Lagunitas IPA. 1993. That’s a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/10 "2018-05-27T00:41:04Z")
Leinenkugel’s grapefruit shandy, established 1867. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/11 "2018-05-27T00:43:24Z")
I’m not a drinker, but the Italian restaurant we frequent pushes Stella Artois which claims AD 1366 as its founding. Uh-huh. ---
**Author:** ![Azile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Azile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azile)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/12 "2018-05-27T00:49:01Z")
My daily drinking beer is from a brewery founded in 2017; the first delivery was just over a year ago, in fact! However the last beer I drank was from a much older brewery, they were founded way back in 2011. (I’m from the land of microbreweries, what.) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/13 "2018-05-27T00:56:13Z")
1873 Golden, CO one year older than my college. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/14 "2018-05-27T01:01:21Z")
Shiner Bock, from the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, TX since 1909. Wiki says it’s now available in 49 states. Who knew they had expanded that much? I was mildly surprised to find it in LA and OK restaurants in the last few years. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/15 "2018-05-27T01:07:08Z")
I brew my own, and my first batch was in 1996, so, I guess, 22 years? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/16 "2018-05-27T01:26:44Z")
The only date that is important is when they were taken ober by AB InBev or SABMiller. If the answer is “never”, then you are drinking an “old” beer. There aren’t any in the US, Canada or Mexico. Unless you go to Wisconsin and buy a case of Point, which I grew up on in the 50s… My last beer was a San Miguel, established 1890, still more or less intact, but 48% owned by a Japanese brewer. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/17 "2018-05-27T01:36:35Z")
Woo hoo! I’m still winning. But I’m waiting for someone to claim they’re drinking Weihenstephaner (founded 1040). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/18 "2018-05-27T01:46:36Z")
Rats. Drank the last one of those last week. So I’m “stuck” with a newbie. Stone Brewing, 1996. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/19 "2018-05-27T03:56:57Z")
Home brewer and only have beer I make myself at home. Helped on my first batch in 1980…does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/20 "2018-05-27T04:04:15Z")
Home brewer for about 20 years and Budweiser out in the garage. But, hey, I’ll drink pretty much whatever you offer me! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876.md?page=2)