Out of date beer?!
- Thread starter NarChaDBaueR
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google tells me its 8%
Soldato
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OK it's 8% 
[edit] beaten to it
[edit] beaten to it
Buy them:
4 cartons of ASDA's own fruit juice- 4 for £3. Pick different varieties- OJ for the soft kids and Grapefruit and Melon for the racier child.
£7 DVD. Something by Disney.
£10 Cliff Richards CD
£10 Couple of board games, but nothing too exciting.
£3 bottle of Viimto and a Skips multi-pack for pre-teen Communion.
£5 candles
then let the best little scamp choose a charity for the leftover whampum.
And on that note, my brothers and sisters-
Kuuuuum By-Yaaaaahh...
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Let's think positive - whatever's happened to it in those 1/2 months can't make it any *worse* can it?
My old man works for a company that delivers to pubs and they had a load of Baltika and Steinlager bottles 1 month out of date. They were going for £2.50 a crate, so I bought 10 crates!.
I've been drinking them for a few weeks and they taste fine!
I've been drinking them for a few weeks and they taste fine!
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Damn my friends flashing antics!
I got an out of date stella once in a bar in town, i tasted really really rank, i thought it was me just not having the taste for beer until someone told me to check the use by date or whatever it is, was nearly a year over. Got a free beer out of it though 
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Ex-publican here. Confidently ignore expiry dates on bottles so long as the caps are properly intact. I once drank several that were nearly three years out of date with no ill effect or much difference in taste.
When it comes to draught though, it's an entirely different matter. If I had some lager that had gone past its date, I would use tactics to try and shift it quickly i.e. just pretend we'd run out of the alternatives one evening, then the next morning say we'd just had a delivery and they're all back on.
I personally never got into the position, because draught lager moves fast in general and because I was damn good at my job, but if I'd ever got to four or five days past the date I would have written it off. A lot of people can taste the difference, but more importantly because once poured there is a completely dodgy smell to it, no matter how clean the lines are. Draught isn't a 100% closed system like bottled lagers, and that's why time is relevant.
Never sold cans, so no comment there.
When it comes to draught though, it's an entirely different matter. If I had some lager that had gone past its date, I would use tactics to try and shift it quickly i.e. just pretend we'd run out of the alternatives one evening, then the next morning say we'd just had a delivery and they're all back on.
I personally never got into the position, because draught lager moves fast in general and because I was damn good at my job, but if I'd ever got to four or five days past the date I would have written it off. A lot of people can taste the difference, but more importantly because once poured there is a completely dodgy smell to it, no matter how clean the lines are. Draught isn't a 100% closed system like bottled lagers, and that's why time is relevant.
Never sold cans, so no comment there.
