YVSA : Does beer get too old setting in a dark cool place? Hawk brought up a couple of cases of Shiner Bock at the convention here last year and there was a case plus left. Barb squirreled it away. I had her bring out a bottle for dinner the other night and it didn't even taste like beer, it was way too sweet!!!!
Maybe it's just me and the medications I'm on?
Medications will definitely change or cause you to lose your taste!
Mom has lost all taste, nothing is good, nothing tastes like it is supposed to.
Beer does have a shelf life. Can't remember the time periods, anymore. When I was in the Lounge/Pkg store business, I personally made sure my stocks were constantly rotated. All beers, IIRC were coded for date. I used to know the codes, no longer. Budweiser was particularly critical of their stocks. The Delivery drivers were supposed to check the stocks at a retailers when he delivered, exchange it, if they found some outdated stock or get the retailer to blow it out the store on sale. I knew of two bar owners that didn't like to rotate their stock, too lazy. The Distributor sent in Supervisors periodically to spot check stocks at a retailers. I know of two Budwieser Delivery Drivers that got fired because of outdated stock at a Retailers.
I had a decent business. I would get 3 to 4 heavy deliveries a week from Bud. It all wouldn't fit in my walk in cooler, so every night before I left I would pull out stocks from my cooler , put in fresher beer from my storage area toward the back of the cooler and than put the put the coldest beer (oldest beer) in front.
I also did that with my beer boxes at the bar. Once a month, pull out all the beer, clean the beer box, (boy, can they get nasty in a month) and put beer bottles back in, making sure any beer initially taken out of the beer box was put on top. Many did not like to do that. Some of my people at the bar didn't like doing that, once again too much work. I either assisted them or explain to them the next day, you didn't do the coolers. Let's do them tonight. I eventually had to put in cameras. Resisted it for years, but did my net profit ever go up after the cameras went in.