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Been enjoying some good Wisconsin locals at the moment. New Glarus for the most part to be precise. I'll do a more detailed write up later
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I could have swore that I typed up a reply to you LoneStage.
Basically, beer in cans goes bad for much the same reason that beer in bottles does.
Truthfully, it never goes 'bad', but it will get old, stale, and generally not taste good.
Cans don't have to worry about UV rays which cause lightstruck or skunky flavors. UV reacts with certain hop chemicals and actually changes them into the exact chemical compound in skunk spray. Cans aren't penetrable by light so this isn't an issue.
Oxygen is the biggest destroyer of beer. Any pickup and any point in process following primary fermentation will begin to deteriorate and oxidize the malt and hops in beer. Oxidized malt usually present as papery or cardboard flavors, some oxidized flavors in bigger beer (think over 10% ABV) can be somewhat pleasant such as sherry or port, oxidized hops are harder to describe, but generally are cheesy. We measure our beer at packaging to picking up about 20ppb O2, ideally we should be in the single digits.
I personally can tell a difference between beer on the day of packaging and week old beer that has already begun to oxidize, this is harder to do if you can't pull beer from the line to sample and most consumers don't see beer on the shelf until it is at least 2 weeks old already.
We have a pull date for our product of 3 months, like I said, after that it isn't going to kill anyone, but it won't taste good. Certain beers do better at surviving oxidized flavors like I said, our Dunkel (German dark lager) is more shelf stable than our IPA.
Hope that this mostly answers your question, basically look for beer dated under a month when possible, buy local beer, and know that beer is a product best drank fresh.
I'm heading out to DC.. hopefully going to hit up some good beer places: churchkey, grandville moore's...
Agreed. Bad breweries - hop ons to the craft/micro beer boom - are popping up everywhere. My wife and I (avid homebrewers) have wanted to open up a brewpub or small brewery for the last three or four years, but at the rate breweries have been opening in every large and small town, I'm afraid the market will be far too saturated by the time we get the loans/funding figured out.
I JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY...
I was thinking about how long it has been since i last had Guinness and Sweetmilk.
Them my brain moved on to Milk Stouts, Oyster stouts and Rocky Mountain Stouts.
Then it hit me.....
Similac Stout. My next 5 gallon batch. Gonna be hella expensive unless I can find someone with left over wic vouchers.
Drinking Moosehead tonight, insult me.
Drink some real beer, pussy.
i've been drinking 2 or 3 beers (bottles) a day for the past few weeks
biggest side effect is the fattening. holy jesus it's easy to get a gut from drinking beer.
that is all