gunbrew
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A bottle was found Tuesday afternoon that was from my 4th batch of beer, am up to 27th now.
I bottled it in April 2006 and labelled 7 bottles for a mate, seems I only gave him 6 of them.
So last night I drank a beer that I bottled just over 4 years ago.
Back then I was making some fairly nasty, high alcohol kit beer.
Whilst it was not up to the standard of my recent brews the aging certainly had a noticeable impact.
A low carb Draft, very malty, smooth and easy to drink at 7.7%!
I noticed that the hops flavour had diminished to almost nothing.
One longneck and I was well pleased, wish there was more.
Moral of the story is to put more homebrew away for years
Dodgy mobile phone pic of beer attached.
It has made me want to put some bottles aside to age for a few years.
Considering that the hops seem to dissapear over time it would probably be advisable to make the beer very hoppy.
Anyone else have a well aged beer story?
Or coments on keeping beer for a few years before consumption?
I bottled it in April 2006 and labelled 7 bottles for a mate, seems I only gave him 6 of them.
So last night I drank a beer that I bottled just over 4 years ago.
Back then I was making some fairly nasty, high alcohol kit beer.
Whilst it was not up to the standard of my recent brews the aging certainly had a noticeable impact.
A low carb Draft, very malty, smooth and easy to drink at 7.7%!
I noticed that the hops flavour had diminished to almost nothing.
One longneck and I was well pleased, wish there was more.
Moral of the story is to put more homebrew away for years
Dodgy mobile phone pic of beer attached.
It has made me want to put some bottles aside to age for a few years.
Considering that the hops seem to dissapear over time it would probably be advisable to make the beer very hoppy.
Anyone else have a well aged beer story?
Or coments on keeping beer for a few years before consumption?