I am trying to imagine how big my fridge would have to be to contain a year old beer.
Most of the beer in my house now has been there for almost a year. I really don’t drink at my house unless I’m having a party, so I might crack open one a month and yeah, they’re pretty old.
I hadn’t even considered that aspect! Even getting month old beer seems nearly impossible. Who am I kidding…week old. :o
I wouldn’t drink lite beer if it were one day old or ten years old. I won’t even allow it in my house. In fact I don’t even know of any close friends that drink lite beer.
One time though, at a small party, the host gave me a lite beer. I thanked him, took an imaginary swig, then told him I needed to have a pee. Went to the washroom, poured out the “beer” and put a little water in the can so at least I had something in the can to make it look like I was still drinking it.
I think a good English word to describe lite beer is “vile”.
Most beers are meant to be drunk fairly young. Bud Light is one of these beers. I really don’t think it’s going to taste that much worse after a year, though. I’d drink it just fine if I really just wanted a beer. Now heavier beers like imperial whatnots and barleywines, some of those you can cellar for about five-ish years with positive changes to their flavors.
Nope
I lived in the desert. I don’t drink, so I stored some beer left over from a party in the garage. It was a couple of cases. Year, year and a half, I had another party. I brought it out put it in a big ice chest. It was the only beer I had. It was all gone at the end of the party. No one poured it into the yard, or poured it down the sink. They drank it with gusto. It was beer beer, not lite beer.
YMMV.
Bell’s Two Hearted is one of my favorites…unless it’s summertime and Oberon is still on tap. I’d drink Bud if that’s all there was because beer.
I’m not a Heineken fan in general. It always, always tastes like skunk to me (similar to Corona that’s always skunked). Here in China, though, I’ve grown to like it a lot because it’s canned instead of bottled and so tends not to oxidize.
Back in December I stopped drinking beer, and so had about 14 of these canned Heinekens just sitting around. Most of them are in a garage cabinet, but a few of them have been in the refrigerator the whole time. After returning from home leave at the end of July I drank one of the refrigerated Heinekens and it tasted just like bad Heineken, only nine months’ post purchase (I have no idea how long it was in the supermarket). I retrieved one from the garage storage, and other than being warm tasted perfectly fine.
I’m back to not drinking beer, so I have no idea if the bad can was an outlier, or if months’ of cold storage affected the other cans, too.