Budweiser question for the tnbj

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:12 pm

Forget about drinking it, man! Sell the stash on eBay and buy the Yamayork you've always been wanting!

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:13 pm

Well.... it's obvious that these aren't TIN cans. But they certainly aren't the latest style aluminum cans. I'll bet your local Bud distributor would be interested in your story. It might be worth a couple of cases to them!

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:32 pm

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:15 pm

Lagered for 20 years though......

I for one would still try it while I still have free health insurance.

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:45 pm

From the looks of the can, if it stayed perfectly sealed, It wouldn't kill you, but it would taste bad. (not that it wasn't bad when new)

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:33 am

The Jackson wrote:Forget about drinking it, man! Sell the stash on eBay and buy the Yamayork you've always been wanting!

What he said.

Seriously, beer does not age like a fine wine. It has a shelf life. Measured in months, not years. Beer is a perishable product. See:

http://www.tastings.com/beer/perishable.html

bearphonium · Post by **bearphonium** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:03 am

I think its more interest as a historical find than refreshment. I recall the both the introduction and the banning of tab-tops when I was a kid. Now, a bottle of "home distilled" white lightning, on the other hand....

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:23 pm

bloke wrote:
bearphonium wrote:I think its more interest as a historical find than refreshment. I recall the both the introduction and the banning of tab-tops when I was a kid. Now, a bottle of "home distilled" white lightning, on the other hand....
funny...

"Tab-tops" were FAR more sanitary than the current style. Here's the thing: People were SO lazy (and nasty...aka "beer drinkers") that they dropped those tabs down into the beer before they drank it.

bloke "Some folks were accidentally swallowing those aluminum tabs. The gubmunt decided to protect those people from their own stupidity rather than letting Darwinism do its job."

People made funky vests from 'em, too. As cool as a beer-can hat.... Since it was the 'see-through' days, they were especially interesting when a woman wore one without a shirt...

Jeff "So *that's* where my pencil erasers went!" Benedict

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:31 pm

The Big Ben wrote:
bloke wrote:
bearphonium wrote:I think its more interest as a historical find than refreshment. I recall the both the introduction and the banning of tab-tops when I was a kid. Now, a bottle of "home distilled" white lightning, on the other hand....
funny...

"Tab-tops" were FAR more sanitary than the current style. Here's the thing: People were SO lazy (and nasty...aka "beer drinkers") that they dropped those tabs down into the beer before they drank it.

bloke "Some folks were accidentally swallowing those aluminum tabs. The gubmunt decided to protect those people from their own stupidity rather than letting Darwinism do its job."
People made funky vests from 'em, too. As cool as a beer-can hat.... Since it was the 'see-through' days, they were especially interesting when a woman wore one without a shirt...

Jeff "So *that's* where my pencil erasers went!" Benedict

(singing) "I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top, cut my heel, had to cruise on back home..."

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:00 pm

http://www.tastings.com/beer/perishable.html

It is really sad that that myth still persists even among supposed experts. I have had the pleasure of an Alaskan Smoked Porter that had been cellared for 2 years and it had truly aged and matured in that time. Likewise I have had lambics that have aged for over 6 years and they were works of art compared to their "new" counterparts.

For info on what kinds of beers age well and what kind do not, here is an answer by Michael Jackson (the beer guy, not the other one) http://www.beerhunter.com/askmichael-200112.html

On the other hand, a can of Bud just does not age well no matter how you look at it.

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:30 pm

Captain Sousie wrote:On the other hand, a can of Bud just does not age well no matter how you look at it.

I think the other hand is what we have here. Assembly line American beers do go out of date. I've tried to drink a few with astonishingly poor results. My son, a manager with a major American brewery, always clears the out of date stuff from my fridge when he comes. He scolds me for having it but he never brings me any fresh stuff. Ungrateful kid.

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:42 am

knuxie wrote:
Of course, this beer is **** beer - Budweiser - and isn't worth drinking if it were fresh. Throw it away and get some real beer.
But you have to admit, the girls are pretty hot....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_airrunner/174915900/

Ken F.

I agree...(just don't let my wife see this post)

Edit:Why does that photo make me think about bloke's post about camel toads?

tbn.al wrote:I think the other hand is what we have here. Assembly line American beers do go out of date. I've tried to drink a few with astonishingly poor results. My son, a manager with a major American brewery, always clears the out of date stuff from my fridge when he comes. He scolds me for having it but he never brings me any fresh stuff. Ungrateful kid.

Doubly agree. If you can't get through to him you'll just have to become a homebrewer too. Can't get any fresher than the carboy bubbling away in the other room.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:55 pm

It's Bud. There's a reason they threw them away!...

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:12 pm

About ten years ago I found three Pabst Blue Ribbon beers in my grandmother's fridge holding up one of the shelves that had broken. I asked her about them, and she remembered that they were from the late 60's, when a cousin had come by from Nebraska. Nobody else ever drank beer in that house apparently. They look like the Bud in question here (peel-off lid), but brand new.

She said that they had been in the refridgerator all that time!

So I put them on ice and brought them back to my studio in Los Angeles, where I quickly put them in a labled paper bag and into my fridge, making sure that nobody would mistake them for regular beer and gulp-away.

My friends and I drank one of them on New Years eve, 1999. It was the best Pabst we had ever tried. It had somehow grown slightly sweet, and was darker than the clear looking PBR of today. There were five of us who tried it, and we all liked it very much and did not get sick!

When I moved out here to Charlotte, I gave the two beers to an elder in the Church, and he has them in his fridge in Pasadena. I'll be traveling back on business in a few weeks, and we might just break them out at that time.

I've always wondered what two Pabst Blue Ribbon beers that have certifiably (from Grandma King) been chilled for over 40 years might fetch on ebay. I'll probably never know, as there's no way I'll be taking them home to Charlotte, unless I pack them in a cooler of dry ice and send them to myself. Hmmm.

I wonder if I should try doing that, or if I should just drink them next time I'm in town...

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:16 pm

Put 'em on ebay.

Somewhere out there there's a chump ... er ... collector ... who will pay big bucks for 'em. Take his money, book yourself a trip to Westvleteren, Belgium, toss back a couple of Abt 12s, and buy yourself a new tuba with the remainder when you get back.