This is what 12-year-old lager stored in a hot garage tastes like:

[DanBrewer]

Review of Decade-Old African Beer Forgotten in a Hot Garage

Question: what's the hottest it gets in your garage?

 

[Dave70]

The aroma is suggestive of baklava, light raw squash with salt, cedar-aged cream soda, cold Lipton iced tea, honey, a hint of chlorine, peeled sweet potato, and cedar cigar box inside a humidor. Flavor impressions include honey, mild squash, light brown sugar, vanilla cream soda aged in cedar wood, medium-sweet cane sugar, inhaling an unlit honey-dipped cigarillo, Lipton “Brisk” iced tea with a light lemon tanginess, no hop character, and a touch of brown paper bag leaving behind an aftertaste of loose tobacco, subtle prune and white raisin.

So many adjectives from a sip of beer. Thats one highly evolved olfactory system right there.

 

[Garagebrew]

My dad found a box of coopers stout in his tin shed from his home brewing days when I was in early high school making it 12/13 years old. We gave it a try and it actually wasn't too bad which surprised me partly because of its age and partly due to his extreme dislike for hygiene and sanitation.

 

[TSMill]

Reckon I may have a 20yo bottle of Tusker sitting in my shed.

 

[homebrewnewb]

wine drinkers, id say, reviewing like that.
wish i had tools like that to comprehend beer, i'm either; i like, or it's c u b **** off...
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[Phoney]

My mate found an unopened case of Coopers PA in a shipping container on his property in the hunter valley, leftover from a party from about 4 years back. It regularly gets to 40C there in summer and they were on a shelf close to the top of the container so probably got to 60C+ on hot days. We cracked a few, they had a harsh acidity and almost a hot fusel taste. Like a badly brewed kit & kilo beer. If you chilled them down to near freezing they were drinkable but when they started warming up the harshness came back.

 

[koshari]

Reckon I may have a 20yo bottle of Tusker sitting in my shed.

tusker aint the best beer to begin with,

 

[earle]

wine drinkers, id say, reviewing like that.
wish i had tools like that to comprehend beer, i'm either; i like, or it's c u b **** off...
;\

Its Tusker so why waste so many words. Probably could have covered off by saying it smelled like arse and tasted even worse.

 

[DanBrewer]

Looks like a 125-year-old bottle of beer was found by a scuba diver. It was uncorked and sampled with one of the descriptions noted as follows:

"It tasted surprisingly good, and surprisingly like beer."

Reminds me of one of my fav food writers description of every meal:

"Tastes like food."

 

[wynnum1]

My mate found an unopened case of Coopers PA in a shipping container on his property in the hunter valley, leftover from a party from about 4 years back. It regularly gets to 40C there in summer and they were on a shelf close to the top of the container so probably got to 60C+ on hot days. We cracked a few, they had a harsh acidity and almost a hot fusel taste. Like a badly brewed kit & kilo beer. If you chilled them down to near freezing they were drinkable but when they started warming up the harshness came back.

Now thats a real beer drinker.

 

[Hangover68]

A few years after moving house i found 2 crates of Pilsner that i have brewed maybe 3-4 years earlier, i thought it would be shit but it tasted better than ever.