All about beer
Drinking beer past the expiration date is not ideal, but in the event that you drink a “rotten beer ”, just know that drinking a bad beer probably won’t make you sick and it won’t kill you . At the most, you can expect a bit of a stomach ache and a slight feeling of disappointment and disgust.
Beer doesn’t become unsafe to drink as it matures, but it will begin to taste flat — either because it loses flavor or develops an off-putting flavor profile. The alcohol content of beer (and wine, for that matter) is determined during the fermentation process and will not change over time.
3 Answers. There should be no reason why beer would lose any quality from being left out at room tempreture then being re-cooled. Beer is very resistant to heat, it will preffer to be stored in a cold location, but will probably not go bad at room temperature for extended periods of time.
about 1 day
Salmonella is probably the most common cause of food poisoning and it cannot survive about 150F or exposure to alcohol. If you ate something that was contaminated along with the beer , there’s a 50/50 chance the beer would have killed the bacteria in your stomach. Common food – poisoning bacteria.
It is not caused by harmful bacteria within the alcohol itself. Although there is evidence to suggest that consuming alcohol with a meal can reduce the drinker’s chance of suffering from food poisoning , consuming alcohol after symptoms have appeared will not make them go away.
Here’s the bottom line: drinking a ten – year – old beer is certainly safe . You won’t get sick from drinking old beer , nor will you suffer any major side effects (aside from a foul taste in your mouth and drunkenness).
Assuming the beer is done fermenting: If you naturally carbonate, there will be VERY slightly less alcohol than carbed beer but not enough for you to ever notice a difference. In other words, it’ll get you plenty drunk . Carbonation has no bearing on how drunk you get ; only alcohol content matters.
No. Alcohol gets you drunk. It does not matter if a beer , straight liquor or a mixed drink is cold or warm , the amount of alcohol in it is the factor that will result in intoxication. You may drink one or the other more quickly but any difference in absorption due to temperature would be negated by having an extra sip.
Once the beer is opened , it should be drunk within a day or two . After that time, in most cases it’ll be fine, but its taste will be far from what you’ve expected (it’ll be flat). That means that there’s no sense in storing beer after opening – after two days it’ll taste stale and you’ll probably discard it either way.
The Average Shelf Life of Beer Most beers last beyond the printed expiration date on the package. When stored at room temperature, you can expect beer to last for six to nine months beyond the use-by date. Refrigeration increases this time period to up to two years .
Some other possible traits of expired beer product are a change in the color of the beer or a “dusty” settlement visible in the bottom of the bottle. If these things are going on in the bottle, the beer has most likely gone bad and the taste will be “flat” and possibly spoiled tasting.
If you’re wondering how to store beer after opening, your best bet is to reseal it with an airtight cap or stopper to reduce oxidization and cease carbonation loss.