I have a few cases of homebrew that I have been shuffling around for a lot longer than I thought. Opened one full case yesterday and found it full with no labels or markings. Hmm what is it? On the side there was a small piece of paper taped to the case “Christmas '03”. Wow almost 11 years old :shock:
Popped on in the fridge to try later today. What do you think will happen. My choices are: 1. Fizzes completely out of the bottle. 2. Tastes like nothing after so long. 3.There must have been a reason it was never drank up so if it was way over spiced it mellowed out.
I might be able to dig out the original recipe from the box of old ones that is somewhere in the house. Without it there is no way to tell what ABV or ingredients where used. I’m not hopeful it will be any good but who knows.
I opened the antique beer yesterday and discovered why it had not been consumed. It is way over spiced. Ginger I believe. Must have been waiting for it to mellow but after all these years it still is overpowering. Oh well, no more moving it around. It’s last destination is the drain.
Hard to tell. Can’t get past the spice taste. We have a beer bread “kit” that I am even afraid to use a bottle in for fear that it will be ruined. A friend gave us two of these. The first one was a dark bread that I used a Guinness in. It was pretty good. All you have to do is mix in a 12oz bottle of the beer of your choice and bake in a 9"X5" bread pan at 350 for 50-55 min. A little off topic but very good for how easy it was.
Too bad there isn’t maybe some type of device that you could build with some parts from the hardware store that would allow you to put the horrible tasting batch of beer into and then apply some heat and then it would maybe remove the alcohol at the other end. I don’t know, just sayin.
[quote=“HD4Mark”]I opened the antique beer yesterday and discovered why it had not been consumed. It is way over spiced. Ginger I believe. Must have been waiting for it to mellow but after all these years it still is overpowering. Oh well, no more moving it around. It’s last destination is the drain.[/quote]I remember over gingering a Christmas beer about that time frame as well. Mine were volcanoes too so down the drain they went. Ginger and clove are two spices which are not so good when over used.
Don’t know if you’ve seen em, but little cubes of sugar impregnated gummy ginger, and I bit into one and thought if it went into the brew to be very careful how much. It’ll go a long way.