when your 50+ you'll start forgetting where you put them, so problem solved
I forget a lot of things, like where/when I'm meant to pick the kids up, or what I promised I'd do at the weekend - but never where I've put the beer.
'Shelf life' of your beer..?
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I forget a lot of things, like where/when I'm meant to pick the kids up, or what I promised I'd do at the weekend - but never where I've put the beer.
what?! How dare you implicate me in your web of lies.
Is she actually the real reason you go for the high abvs?
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
nah, she's a top girl. I find lower abv's at least commercails a lot like water :sick:
had to leave 1/2 a pint of old speckled hen in the glass because it was tasteless. Celt Experience brewery however do 3.5 -4.5 abv brews with an explosion of taste. which reminds me to get some in for the 'rest' days over the xmas period :thumb:
Hoppyland
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This is interesting! I'm only just back into brewing after an enforced lay-off, and love the newfangled (to me!) citrussy hops, but my oldest bottles are now 2 months old. Not sure how much longer they'll last then (If I don't drink them all first........... I really must build up a proper stock!:whistle:)
However, on a recent trip to Manchester to visit aged relatives, I returned with quite a few bottles. Just glanced at one - Shipyard American IPA (seemingly brewed under licence by Marston's) and its "Best before" date is 31 Oct 2016. Now, this seems to me to be a beer defined by its hops. Yet the BB is 10 months away, and surely they wouldn't want to try to sell it if it had noticeably deteriorated.
So my question is: if commercial hoppy beers can last 10 months & be fine, why shouldn't homebrew ones?
Any thoughts?
I've not come across a commercial with as many hops as I put in but I do notice a diffence between my 1-2 month old hoppy beer and a 3-4 month old beer they are both good and you can tell they are 'related' but they do taste/smell different with regards to the hop experience. You may prefer the hops to be toned down a bit. The commercials apart from bengali tiger and brewdog don't use loads of hops, that makes the beer more expensive. They also have better kit to maximize hop utilitization.
My suggestion is to over hop as you can always leave them mellow if too overpowering but if you underhop that's harder to rectify.:grin:
A couple of forumites have had issues with no/little hop taste/aroma.
I do purge my bottling bucket with co2 to reduce the changes of oxidization. I cant belive the oils escape out of a properly capped glass bottle. They must be interacting with the other compounds in the beer over time.
Hoppyland
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Yep, just looked at a bottle of Brewdog Punk IPA bought at the same time, and that does have a much shorter date - 25 May 2016. Don't know when it was bottled, of course, but that's still nearly 6 months from when I bought it.
I'm sure you're right in that the hop volatiles can't be escaping from the bottle, and it must therefore be an internal reaction. As you suggest, I'd suspect oxygen. I've often thought that I should purge the airspace in my bottles with CO2 before capping, but could never be arsed to do it. Mind you, the vast majority of my beer has never lasted longer than a couple of months in bottle!!: :lol:
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