Does anyone beside my friend like stale beer?

General Homebrew Discussion
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My friend that taught me how to brew drinks any kind of beer from pilsners to stouts, fresh or stale.

He will deliberately keep a bottle or two of each batch of home brew that that either he or I have made  in his refrigerator for years and occasionally pull one out for us to split.  And all these are beers with ABVs of 4% to 6% that you would not expect to be aged for a long time.

Two weeks ago, he pulled out a brown ale I brewed two years ago.  Yes, it was stale but not horrible.  But he did share one with me once that was 10 years old. ABSOLUTELY AWFUL.

Comments please and thanks.

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Life’s too short to drink bad beer.

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+1

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He’s an old man of 78 years. If I have to drink half a bottle of bad beer to maintain A good friendship, I can suck it up once in a while.  He gives me good beer too.

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He’s lucky he likes stale beer. There’s a lot of it out there and its often on sale.