I wanna drink out of date beer.......

crossleydd42

After a few bottles, you won't care if they're out of date or not!

Dingdangdoforme

Jeez, 2 weeks out of date, you'll be wanting a glass next :beer: :xmassmile

PaleScene

I've had out of date Buds - didn't realise they had such a short shelflife now they have birthdays!

I seem to get drunk quicker... but maybe that's also because I'm leaving my Bud in the cupboard, ergo drinking less of it! :beer:

Rex_Mundi

My brother used to work as a buying manager for a large wholesale warehouse. He told me that tins of drink would be fine for months (even a year or more) after the use by date.

withabix

Drinks (apart from ones requiring refrigeration) only have a Best Before date, not a Use By date.

Just as a comparison, how old's that bottle of Sherry in the sideboard?

Or that bottle of cheap scotch you got in a raffle?

Other things that will undoubtedly be 'out of date' in your kitchen:

Olive oil
Cadbury's hot chocolate
Custard powder
Schwartz herb rack on the wall (complete with layer of greasy dust...)
The oil in your chip pan...
Tub of hundreds n thousands
a Pot Noodle
Stuff in the permafrost in your freezer

etc

need I go on...

Backbiter

I've drunk German wheat beer (the stuff with yeast in the bottle) over a year past its use by date. Absolutely zero ill effects.

robnye

as long they havent been open they should be ok....... :rotfl:

pdoff

black-saturn wrote:

I drank wine which was out of date by a week once and ended up spending the next day hanging over the loo. Dont know if beer is the same

i've spent the next day hanging over the loo from drinking in-date wine b4 now!!

Contains_Mild_Peril

Wine can be "corked" whether it's past any BB date or not. Most wines don't even have one.
I was once rather amused to find a bottle of whisky in a supermarket with a price label which said "reduced to sell fresh"!
Beer in tins will tend to deteriorate within a month of its BB date; it's still quite drinkable but starts to develop that "tinny" taste. With bottled beers, most people would be unlikely to be able to tell the difference between one a few weeks before its BB date and a few weeks after.

HOLsale

Dingdangdoforme wrote:

Jeez, 2 weeks out of date, you'll be wanting a glass next :beer: :xmassmile

you're sooooo bourgeois :snow_laug

i can't see that it would be a problem to be honest

firstly they usually age most alcohol a bit, a few weeks extra is unlikely to make a difference

secondly they MUST by law put a use by date on it but most food is fine well after the date and this is fairly well known in the food/drink industry.

i actually had a doctor tell me once that he wished that they weren't so trigger happy about use by dates because many many medicines get wasted (at great expense) because of use by dates. he said that he realises the importance of certain medicines needing to be 100% effective but for things like pain killers the worse thing that happens is that they slowly lose their effectiveness, but it takes some time and if the effect wears off you give them more enough said

i have to say i agree with him and whilst i understand the government is trying to protect us from eating horribly out of date food possibly full of botulism or other nasties i can tell you from experience that even CREAM can be used up to a week after it's use by date if it hasn't been opened (just sniff it, if it smells fine, or like nothing at all like it usually does then taste a tiny bit if it tastes ok it's fine!) now cream is very easy to spoil and i have had enough food poisoning (nearly died from a case of salmonella poisoning years ago) to be very wary of food going off

the amount if stuff going to waste because of 'use by' dates though is appalling. would you eat chocolate 2 weeks out of date? crisps? i would, what's going to happen on that magic use by date, are they going to spontaneously combust?

obviously fresh meat, dairy products, eggs etc need to be used with caution after said dates (though i've had plenty go off before those dates!) but most items that just sit on a shelf for months will sit in your stomach just fine being out of date for a bit

do watch out for bloated tins, mould or a bad smell but that's just common sense

hope you enjoy the beer :beer: