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Lager and Guinness that has gone out of date.

  • 28-10-2018 8:13pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 16,378 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    My mother asked me to throw away some old cans she had cruelly kept hidden in the bottom of a wardrobe for the last year and a half, left over from some party or something.

    Cans of Carlsberg, Heineken, and Guinness. Dates on the bottom of the cans are June 2017 for the Heineken, and September 2017 for the rest.

    Are any/all of these still drinkable? Or will they likely have gone stale or flat, or just gone rancid?

    Obviously I could just open one and drink it and I would find out either way. But I suppose my main concern is that they taste ok but cause me to get sick later.

    The internet tells me they might not be in peak condition any more but should still be drinkable, but thought I would check here too.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Drink away


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭ Camdyn Chilly Robbery


    yeah be grand


  • Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭Ian OB


    Bottoms up! Any adverse side effects will be quantity rather than quality related


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    I drank bottles of Miller once that were a year or two outta date. Fcuking camels piss!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    I drank bottles of Miller once that were a year or two outta date. Fcuking camels piss!

    No that's how Miller tastes....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭richiepurgas


    I knew one night club worker in Cork years ago and he said they regularly bought all the out of date beer bottles at dirt cheap prices to sell as nobody checked the dates in a darkened club.
    Never heard of anyone being any the worse for it.


  • Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭ Nicole Damp Ram


    best before or use by?


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭padohaodha


    Drink away


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    I have two bottles of Guinness the went out of date sometime in the 80's and I plan on opening one of them when one of my mates is around in the house for a few drinks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,949 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Frynge wrote: »
    I have two bottles of Guinness the went out of date sometime in the 80's and I plan on opening one of them when one of my mates is around in the house for a few drinks.

    What did your mate do that you have been planning your revenge from the long grass!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users Posts: 26,373 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Frynge wrote: »
    I have two bottles of Guinness the went out of date sometime in the 80's and I plan on opening one of them when one of my mates is around in the house for a few drinks.

    You must be very lonely if you have waited 40 years and still haven't had a mate call over...


  • Registered Users Posts: 42,459 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Out of date gargle was all granny had at Christmas

    And we were glad of it


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 64,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Cans in particular don't go as weird tasting as quick as bottles would; you might not notice much difference really. Although the bottle issue is light and there isn't any in a wardrobe normally!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Food/drink safety advice isn't allowed on this forum. Up to yourself OP if you want to try it. Thread closed.


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