Coz, I’m planning to buy some sort of expensive, really expensive, liqour and storing it somewhere safe. I’m gonna make it age sooo long that by the time someone does get to taste it, I’d already be dead and it’d be worth a fortune. And I’m still 19.
Will the expired (if ever it does) beer, wine, and spirits make your stomach upset if you drink it or will it simply loose it's taste or strength?
So, you can store wine in a bottle for as long as 500 years? What type of wine? Red? White? Something else?
3 responses so far ↓
1 pvbritty // Oct 25, 2008
yes- beer goes bad
wine- no it can be aged as long as you want i believe
2 penguin_wtf // Oct 25, 2008
Liquor doesn’t age. Liquor gets its flavor from the container that it’s stored in (barrels). Once it’s bottled, it’s ready to be consumed. That’s it. Put Crown Royal in a bottle and store it for 50 years, it will taste exactly like Crown Royal being rolled out of the production line that day. Your 50 year old bottle of booze will be worthless.
Wine can gain value because each year is different. As time will go on, the wine from good years will get scarcer and scarcer. It would have to be some pretty damn amazing and rare wine for it to be worth a fortune.
3 mike800d // Oct 25, 2008
Most mass market beers (Bud) are best the day they leave the brewery and never get better, but are generally good for 3 months or so. Some beer geeks like to age certain beers (often high in alcohol) and enjoy them over time as they morph in flavor — however, beers meant to be aged are few and far between.
Most wine, especially stuff that costs less than $10 a bottle, contrary to popular belief, is meant to be consumed when purchased, and not aged. Most whites are good for a couple of years from the time they are released (typically a year or so after their ‘vintage’ year), and reds for 3-5 years from release. Of course, some fine wines, notably Bordeaux, are often not ready for consumption at the time of release, and in the finest vintage years (e.g. 2000 and 2005), won’t begin to peak for 25 years.
Liquor has an almost indefinite shelf life, especially brown and clear liquors. The except to this rule is milk-based liquors, like Bailey’s Irish Creme and the like, for which the milk content lends them a fairly short shelf like, comparatively.