shelf life of home brew.

[BeerIsGood]

It isn't the lids that degas, pet isn't impermeable for co2 so it actually leaves via the bottle itself (albeit very slowly)

Perhaps the gas does leave the bottles, but I'm certain it also leaves via the lids. I've never used PET bottles, but have extensively used glass bottles with PET lids. Saxby's Ginger Beer Bottles are ideal for this. I've found that after 12-18 months more and more of these have low or no gas levels. After about 2 years I'm lucky to have any carbonation left. I still use these bottles, but only for short turnaround brews.

 

[poggor]

i posted this somewhere else, but i found some 2.5 year old bottles in the shed the other day. best homebrew i've ever tasted... temps in the shed vary between 2 and 40c

 

[poggor]

ps. not sure that any beer poured out of a plastic bottle could taste that good!
just my 2 cents!

 

[Edak]

I did a comparison on Thursday night between two bottles of white ale, one in glass and one in a PET bottle. The PET one was less carbonated and actually had the oxidised flavour of wet cardboard, the glass bottle tastes quite nice and had most of the character that I expected from a 7 month old beer. Both were the same batch if anyone asks. I will never be bottling into PET again.

 

[leighaus]

Wise move..

Just drank an 11 year old honey beer with the in-law..m amazing

 

[hwall95]

I brewed for my brothers wedding which was last Sunday and I had four extract that were between 1-5 months old and they all were great. My dad also brewed a coopers kit ginger beer so in total I think we had at least 9-10 cases of homebrew but ended having to drive and get more beer since it was getting drunk too fast which was unexpected from the type of crowd.

If you have enough kegs would definitely and can afford to rent all the glasses, would definitely recommended against bottles as collecting and cleaning 300+ bottles prior is pretty time consuming and then cleaning them after the wedding is even more..

Anyways, goodluck with the wedding and congratulations!