# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/61 "2018-05-29T04:12:30Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > Hard to say. It’s a Blue Moon; according to the bottle it’s produced by the Blue Moon Brewing Company, a fictitious company that Coors invented when they launched the beer in 1995. So maybe 1995. But Coors started in 1873, so maybe I’ll go with that date. Except that it’s actually MillerCoors now, so do I get to use the 1855 founding date for Miller? Oh, wait, I see that the website says “MillerCoors, a MolsonCoors company,” so let’s see when Molson was founded … oh, to hell with it. For some companies, the date they were founded is less important than the date they got losted. 🙂 Not that the big companies are bad per se, just they know that as there’s a market for top quality there’s also a market for top quantity that someone is going to fill. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/62 "2018-05-29T04:27:09Z")
Right now I’m drinking a Feliz Navidad Mole Gingerbread Stout from Buffalo Bayou Brewing, in Houston. I think they’re about 10 years old. As far as oldest that I really, really like, how about Trappists? Rochefort is the oldest on the list, brewing beer since 1595 or so. But to me, it doesn’t get better as an expression of a style, than Westmalle’s Tripel. I think they’ve been brewing beers since the 1830s, but the Tripel only dates from the mid 1930s or so. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/63 "2018-05-29T06:07:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > What happened to Saranac? They use to be regional at least, their market keeps shrinking it appears. I enjoyed their Pale Ale quite a bit and their lager was good. Now all I ever see is the variety pack in my local stores. According to the people I talk to: a) Never fully recovered from the fire b) The huge numbers of craft and micro-breweries have flooded the market They look to be on a good rebound but the bad news (for you and many others) is their top seller by far is the mixed packs which they also claim to have invented. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/64 "2018-05-29T14:47:17Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > I am drinking a Lauganitas “Waldos Special Ale”… > > The Waldos predate the brewery by at least 25 years…so i’m gonna say my beer is 4:20 old. I’ve been drinking a ridiculous amount of this recently. Last year it was only available for one day in our area so every time I see it I figure I should grab it while it lasts. It’s been over a month now. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-your-beer/814876/65 "2018-05-29T17:59:08Z")
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