# old beer...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 13, 2000, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418 "2000-07-13T08:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/41 "2000-07-18T14:50:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tcburnett \* > \*\*What the hell? Beer isn’t SUPPOSED to taste like a skunks’ butt? I guess that explains why I have been getting imported beer for $4 a twelvepack. But I have an excuse. I grew up in San Antonio where everyone drank Lone Star beer. Maybe they change the recipe in the last 40 years, but it was a tail-twister. \*\* You don’t fool me, tc. You were a Pearl drinker, all the way. ---
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/42 "2000-07-18T15:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SarumanRex \* > \*\* Anheiser-Bush And BTW, beechwood aging refers NOT to aging beer in casks made from beechwood but to having some beechwood chips thrown into the stainless steel vats during the few hours it takes to “age” beer. They also said that beer only gets worse with time, never better. \*\* 1. The magazine “All About Beer” claims that AB isn’t “aging” with beechwood chips at all, they’re clarifying it. AB is filled with lying bastards, essentially. 2. Beer does NOT “only get worse with time.” Lagers (which thye claim to brew) MUST be aged for awhile; ales with live yeast improve with age. Examples of these styles would include many of the Goose Island beers, Sierra Nevada, almost all barley wines and Yorkshire ales, etc. 3. In ref to OP, Dustin, if it’s really bad, mix it with some lemonade or 7-Up or something, then drink it quickly. But it’s not likely to taste very good if it’s a 3 year old can of Bud Light or Busch–these are both “crap beers” in the first place. Also, put them in the freezer for awhile first to kill some of the flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Demigod\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Demigod\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demigod_5)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/43 "2000-07-18T19:47:31Z")
DUSTIN!!! How about an update?? What happened with the beer? I’m getting the idea your parents caught you drinking and banned you from using the computer…or else you drank the beers last week and are still drunk… ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/44 "2000-07-18T20:28:05Z")
Oh my god - the stuff must have killed him! Went to a beer tasting last Sat - the best thing I’ve ever bought from a church charity auction. Were these guys into beer! Re aging beer - They agreed on the yeast topic, especially Belgian style beers with corks should be stored upright and their high yeast content will allow them to age. Re booze gone bad - While at my father-in-law’s summer place a coupla years back, we discovered several partially full bottles of booze (vodka, brandy, gin, rum, various whiskeys and liqueurs). The gin, brandy, and rum were undrinkable, and the liqueurs clearly rancid from smell. Assumed sugar and flavorings played some role. We tossed them all. Nearly cried! Do not know these bottles’ histories, but assume he transported them to the summer place from his other home where they had been used for entertaining. He drinks very little himself. Assume they were at least 5-7 years old. Re OP - OF COURSE you’ve gotta try em. 1. how else will you find the answer. 2. 17 is none to early to get started on stupid alcohol-related activities. What guy wouldn’t have an opportunity throughout his life to discuss, “What was the oldest beer ya ever drank?” Of course, if you just wants to get fucked up cheaply, there are always inhalants. Billions and billions of brain cells. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/45 "2000-07-18T21:00:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dustin \* > I’m just looking for a good buzz. I guess it’s up to me to be the voice of reason and responsibility here. (Ah, sometimes the moderator mantle weighs heavy on one’s shoulders!) If you want a good buzz, have you tried homework? In my personal experience, nothing beats the exhilaration you get when you can contemplate a superbly written 6 page double-spaced book report, or the well-reasoned proof of a mathematical theorem. Beats any beer in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Demigod\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Demigod\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demigod_5)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/46 "2000-07-19T02:29:04Z")
I fully agree with Arnold, but only because he’s the big moderator man. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/47 "2000-07-19T04:42:22Z")
dustin, have you met our resident [total feeb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31146), Homer? ---
**Author:** ![dustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dustin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dustin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/48 "2000-07-19T04:55:25Z")
I saw it in the fridge and was about to drink it. I was like hell no. I got to thinking how old it was… What I did do though, is I went to the gas station to pick up a mountain dew. They have benches outside. Me and a couple of friends were sitting on the benches. Some girl comes by asking if we found any money. She said she lost 17$ there. So when she left we started looking for it. I looked in the trash can and found 2 bottles of unopened zima. The bottles must have been about 110 degrees. I took them home and put them in the freezer for a while. I drank both of them. They smelled skunky. I didn’t even get a buzz, but it made me sick. I got a killer headache about 3 hours later. It lasted for hours. It was the worst I’ve felt in a while. Not gonna do that again. The 3 year old beers are still in there. I don’t think I’m gonna drink them. heh ---
**Author:** ![ubermensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bcef8e/32.png) [@ubermensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ubermensch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/49 "2000-07-19T07:12:49Z")
well, there’s only one thing you can do with 'em now…sell 'em on ebay! but wait, you can’t do that anymore…damn… ---
**Author:** ![Demigod\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Demigod\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demigod_5)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/50 "2000-07-19T09:26:16Z")
Dustin…you’ve got issues. Drinking old beer that lasted in your fridge is one thing, but trash diving for rejected Zima’s and downing them is something entirely different. I’ll give you a hint on how to start a normal life…DO NOT, under any cicumstances, ever hang out at a gas station. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/51 "2000-07-19T15:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dustin \* > \*\*heh i’m gonna drink them saturday night. (My parents won’t be home.) I’m 17 years old. I will tell you how it tastes. If my parents ask where did they go, I will tell them I shot them. \*\* A drunk 17 yo with firearms. Is this a great country or what? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/52 "2000-07-19T15:13:14Z")
Now here’s a question: What IS Zima? ---
**Author:** ![ubermensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bcef8e/32.png) [@ubermensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ubermensch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/53 "2000-07-19T16:45:19Z")
aaahhh zima…tastes like zit… malt liquor, sorta marketed at females, or so it seems to men. but they have a new one out that tastes like 7 up or sprite, and damn, you can’t taste the alcohol in it. it’d be perfect for a 7 'n 7 or something… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/54 "2000-07-19T17:14:42Z")
Don’t listen to **übermensch**. [Zima](http://www.altculture.com/aentries/z/zima.html) is the nectar of the gods. Click on the link to learn the following information: > [@](#): > > Zima (Coors Brewing Company): > “Clearmalt beverage” launched by Coors in 1992, at the tail end of the brief clear products fad. Zima, distributed nationally by 1994, is essentially beer filtered through charcoal to remove all “beer cues”–i.e., color and flavor–and then injected with flavorings that make it taste something like a flat, metallic gin and tonic. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/55 "2000-07-19T18:37:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ellen \* > \*\*Now here’s a question: What IS Zima? \*\* It taste a lot like really watered down **Fresca**. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418/56 "2000-07-20T01:23:47Z")
I can’t believe they are trying that flavored beer crap again. Will they never learn? It was popular for about 3 days in the summer of I think it was 72. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-beer/25418.md?page=2)