I can honestly say the issue has never come up at our gaff - the beer's
never on the shelf long enough.



"Ray Drouillard" wrote in message
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"Hoo" wrote in message
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Does beer expire.... like Heineken...all this

Most commercial beer -- even microbrewed stuff -- is bottled after
carbonation. As a result, there is some oxygen in the bottle. This
oxygen does bad things to the beer after a while.

Most home brewed beer is naturally carbonated in the bottle. This is
done by adding some sugar (or malt) to the beer before bottling it.
Once the bottles are sealed, the yeast consumes the sugar and what
little oxygen is left in the bottle, and produces carbon dioxide and
alcohol. As a result, brew that is naturally carbonated in the bottle
contains no oxygen.

I just recently finished drinking the beer that I made for my wedding in
1994. It was good to the last drop. No, it wasn't heavily alcoholic.


Ray Drouillard