Does beer go bad?
ButterMan
Indianapolis
I have about 3 Coronas and a couple of IPA's in my fridge that have been there probably about 2-3 years. I don't drink much unless im at the SC or watching football with friends.and usually do shots with my OTC girls when they make house calls. So this beer has just been sitting there. Can I still drink this shit?
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I would pass.
Beers go bad but if they're sitting in the fridge, they're probably fine. The good Lord intended for beer to be bottled in brown bottles, because with clear or green bottles, light making it through the glass reacts with the hop oils and skunks the beers. It doesn't take a whole lot of light to do that, which is why Heineken, Molson, Corona, etc. ALWAYS taste skunky to anyone who is a bit more sensitive to skunked beer... and all but the dullest senses will taste skunkiness in those beers when they've exposed to much light.
So, your Coronas probably hit a new level of undrinkable.
Although they won't go BAD bad, if they were kept refrigerated, your brown-bottled IPAs will lose flavor and can develop flat papery flavors as they age.
You will be fine.
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the first time I tried one it was already 7 years old and still one of the best beers I have ever had.
Don't drink shitty beer.
Just buy some new ones.
The number 1 culprit to beer is light and heat. If you keep it out of heat, at a steady constant temperature and out of light you can prolong the life.
Craft beer tends to age better than the standards.
I found some really old beer I forgot about in my garage fridge the other day. One of them happened to be a Sierra Nevada Hoptimum from 2014. For fun I opened it up and it still tasted decent. Was certainly drinkable because it was so hoppy to begin with.
Ever drink a can of Coke that's a few years old. Yeah it may taste a little off but it's not going to kill you!
TL;DR: Yes, but it won't kill you.
Beer can go bad or stale, but it takes a long time and/or some sort of exposure to air to make it go rancid to the point that it will make you sick.
The Coronas will go stale before the IPAs because it's a low hop beer.
IPAs are, by definition, beers with higher levels of hops. Hops are a natural preservative. IPA stands for India Pale Ale, dating back from the 19th and early 20th century when the British Empire shipped over-hopped ales to places like India. The extra hops kept the beer from going bad in the barrels during the long journey.
Brown bottles filter out light much more effectively than clear glass bottles or green bottles. A major factor you should consider on the shelf life of beer that you buy at a party store....
We didn't forget, I said it right up at the top in the first few responses. Agree about the hoppiness acting as a preservative, in theory, but the clear bottle is more of a factor, IME. For someone who is at all sensitive to skunkiness, beers like Heineken and Molson come pre-skunked, for exactly this reason.
dos eques. bohemia. indio. modello negro.
Beer is good
And prople are crazy