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Can You Drink Expired Beer?

December 20th, 2010  |  Posted by The Efficient Drinker
expired budweiser with blacked out born on date

expired, but totally fine

The big domestic breweries have amusing ways of differentiating their flagship beers. Coors Light is made with water from the Rocky Mountains, which change color depending on the temperature of the beer. FYI, cans start to turn blue at 48ºF and are fully blue at 44ºF. Interestingly, the bottle labels are calibrated to turn blue two degrees lower. [Please comment if you have a theory] Miller Lite alternately prides itself on tasting like a full-bodied beer, or the opposite: that it has the least carbs of any of the mainstream light beers. Bud Light advertises itself as a beer for grown-up frat boys and generally has the funniest ads. Lastly, Budweiser brands itself on its ingredients and its freshness, which is described by Born On Dating.

The dating seems silly, because I couldn’t possibly care less when my beer came off the line in St. Louis or wherever it’s produced. If in the situation where I’m drinking it, maybe I do want to know if I’m going to be assaulted by skunkiness. The issue is that skunked beer is usually caused by exposure to light and fluctuations in temperature, rather than time elapsing. Sure, with more time, it’s more likely that the beer has been exposed, but not if it’s been sitting in a cool basement or other area that ’s dark and doesn’t experience wild temperature swings.

The above picture is an example of when I drank a beer that was well over it’s suggested time for consumption, although by how much is a mystery. I was in Mykonos, Greece, where beers at a bar were €7 a few summers ago. Needless to say, visiting a store that sold expired Bud (why not Budweiser?) for €1.50 was a smart move. And the fact that it was “expired” wasn’t much of a deterrent. Unlike food, beer isn’t going to spoil. The alcohol in the beer kills off germs, so it’s not going to be like old meat or bread where there’s mold, fungus, bacteria, etc. At least according to a professor who made beer from communal spit in a pot of corn.

So, it’s not dangerous or anything to drink expired beer. I wouldn’t recommend it as a practice, but you could probably return it if it is skunked anyway. While skunked beer might make you sick in the drinking sense, you’ll be fine in the medical sense.

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  1. Jeremy says:
    March 9, 2013 at 11:08 pm

    After a while the sugars in beer start to breakdown and will transform the beer you thought you knew. It’s true that beer can taste just fine for a while after it’s date but you can’t treat it like a twinkie man. They date it for a reason and will pull it from shelves for a reason. Usually places will discount it for those that tend to have a “problem”, if you appreciate a good beer then you will know the difference. But then again it looks as though Budweiser is your personal preference……that shit came off the line tasting like ass. Rednecks and niggars eat it up though.

  2. damian says:
    April 20, 2013 at 3:04 am

    I drank an expired beer and I can’t stop this feeling of imbalance.it sucks.But I think the beer is an adultrated version of the real thing.

  3. ashlie says:
    May 19, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    I an about to drink two bud light platinums that have been in the fridge for quite sometime now,… We will see how it goes. Haha

  4. tiffney says:
    June 5, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    I drank a few exp Budweiser. It tasted a little stale but ok after that. I Think it’s ok…..

  5. James says:
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    Drinking month expired Bud Light and after 5, I feel like I’ve drank about 10. the morning should be interesting.

  6. Josh says:
    September 28, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    How long are we talking? That’s the question. In normal massed produced beers there simply isn’t enough alcohol to preserve the other ingredients so after time it will break down. Higher ABV beers will store much longer under the right conditions.

  7. Tom says:
    November 9, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    I’m drinking a skunky bud platinum. My last beer. Will it hurt? :P

  8. Lyric says:
    April 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    Well I read this a still thought I would give this a try Cools Light been expired since Dec and its April… Let’s see how this goes.. Hahah Wish me luck!

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    drank a Budweiser two years old, feeling good. better this way I think…?

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