Quick post. I'm at my uncle's rather lovely house on the Delaware coast right now... and last night, we had some delicious Blue Crabs. Setting aside the joy of beating the crap out of dinner with a mallet, I faced the difficult situation of being in a house with no decent beer.
I found a single bottle of Newcastle, and decided it would be the best I could do... and when I tasted it, it literally tasted like pure acetone. When I poured out the contents, I found that it was actually sticking to the entire bottom eighth of the bottle. Ugh. I settled for a MILLER GENUINE DRAFT instead. Look... I really wanted something that was vaguely beer-like. But again, UGH.
This really does beg a question... why don't people get rid of old beer? My uncle isn't exactly someone who doesn't know that beer goes bad... he definitely knows that it can and that it does. But he's not the only person who keeps beer well after it's gone bad, bad, bad. What gives, surprising number of readers? Why don't people chuck old beer?
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That's awful, especially since it was Newcastle. After 80 years of brewing, they still haven't learned one of the most basic beer lessons: clear bottles lead to skunky beer.
Two week old Newcastle tastes like ass so I can only imagine what that was like.
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