Expiration dates for beer

And beer is even close to the expiration date, why?

My dad used to drink pfeiffer

 

Well, as you can guess, I'm not much of a drinker. I'll have a beer or two when out or at a party, but I think I can count on one hand the number of times that I've cracked open a beer at home with the wife.

I host poker parties a couple of times a year. I always buy more beer than my guests drink, so I'm left with extras. The last one was in January, and I had probably 30 beers left in the garage fridge. I am about to host another and was debating whether I should bring out that stuff again or buy all new beer.

I finally decided that it was better safe than sorry, so I dumped it all. Besides, some of the cans had commemorative Super Bowl logos, so that would be kind of a give-away that it was old

 

As a journalist if any of you - ANY OF YOU - have beer in your frig longer than two days turn in your card. Now.

When I got to a gas station, or store, I will dig - dig - through the cooler looking for the freshest date.
I will not buy beer older than a month.. Rule of thumb. Will not.
I also no longer buy beer that does not have a date on it. I stopped buying Molson after I got several bad batches - not throw up bad, but poor tasting.
Beer if it is cold will keep, but you have no way of knowing if the truck brought it in cold, the store let it get warm and then cooled it again in the cooler until you cracked it open. You can taste it.

I still occasionally get piss-poor tasting beer, but it happens a lot less often.

 

True story: Freight train derailed in the middle of nowhere Ontario north of the Boundary Waters back in 1962. One car contained beer. On extended paddles, I would always detour to the site. As long as the can wasn't bulging I'd drink one. Never suffered. But like TBF, month or two without and anything tastes good. Luckily, I was never stuck on Deiga Garcia.

But this was back in the day when you needed a church key to open 'em up.

 

If you bought better beer, you wouldn't have that problem.

 

Who cares? Drink it.

 

Nice blanket statement. You can have my card ... the .00005 of one cent it might be worth.

We've had beer in the fridge for months because we had guests from another region who stayed for a week and didn't drink it all. I guess that makes me a terrible journalist and such.

 

At least you know now.

 

Shit, I've never even let a beer have time to get warm, much less expire.

 

No wonder you're stretching that green suit.

 

That would 'splain some things

 

A quart of beer with a cartoon elephant on the label? And you're looking down on it?

The elitism on this board has gotten out of hand.