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Mr. T wrote:

Why not find somebody on the street, and offer the beer in person?  If you did that, I'd take the beer in a heartbeat and even call you awesome for it.  I just hate to see good beer go to waste.

But it wasn't good beer.

Last edited by Pithecanthropus (2008-10-07 11:00 pm)

resedit wrote:

A friend of mine has a six pack of harlet davidson label beer from back in the early 90s - it was some promotional thing.

I bet it would taste like smurf now.
Hell - may have then.

He's not going to ever drink it though, he said he's going to eBay it when it is 50 years old.

That's not likely to be worth anything unless it's some sort of commemorative bottle, and even then, it's probably not worth the cost of the bottle.

justine wrote:

I was curious because i have a few bottles of some Maudite, a strong dark Belgian ale. I don't drink it often, but i always have it here for when i do want it. What kind of time frame am i looking at with it in the fridge?

It should last a long time.  And thats some really good beer.  I had a six pack of it a month or so ago.  Delish!

resedit wrote:

justine wrote:

iSeamas wrote:

I'd imagine something like that could last months in the fridge.
I know of beer geeks who cellar that stuff for 1-3 years.

Thanks for the info. Most of the beer i buy gets consumed pretty quickly so it's not a worry, but the Maudite doesn't.

A friend of mine has a six pack of harlet davidson label beer from back in the early 90s - it was some promotional thing.

I bet it would taste like smurf now.
Hell - may have then.

He's not going to ever drink it though, he said he's going to eBay it when it is 50 years old.

I doubt it would have any added value from being full. The collectors usually just want the cans. I'd drain the cans, collectors like to have the pull tab intact, so they drain the beer with nail holes at the bottom. Then again I am assuming that these are cans.


I have read articles by beer geeks who have actually opened and sampled very old beer. I'm talking about things like 50 year old bottles of Trommer's White Label and Rheingold.
Of course making sure that caps still had clean seals an whatnot.

As one would imagine, the stuff was pretty stale, but some of the samples were still lively carbonated, and I don't think the samplers got any intestinal distress afterwards.

I also read a recent review by someone who sampled some cryogenically frozen Budweiser from 1985.
Anheuser Busch actually has had a program for some time where they cryogenically freeze a number of samples of there beer over the years -in an effort to keep tabs on quality control.

Interestingly enough, their quality control isn't doing what it should (keep consistancy), from a side by side comparison by the panel with which he participated, the 1985 Budweiser had a fuller body and a more assertive crispness than the Budweiser of today.
I take from this the understanding that Anheuser Bush is market testing their core user group, who favor an even more waterey flavor beer profile.

Bud drinkers don't want their beer to taste like beer.

mrreet2001 wrote:

iSeamas wrote:

I doubt it would have any added value from being full. The collectors usually just want the cans. I'd drain the cans, collectors like to have the pull tab intact, so they drain the beer with nail holes at the bottom. Then again I am assuming that these are cans.

Why wouldn't you just let the collector decide if they wanted the beer in the bottle / can.

It's not doing any harm in there, why would you go out of the way to potentially lower the value of something when it doesn't effect you the way it is.

Does it bring down the value to have the can drained?
I've not seen that to be the case (in collector's circles).

I haven't been part of the can collecting world for some time, but there was no more than a negigable value added to having a full can opposed to a clean, (mint condition) drained can, and I never knew of a collector keeping full cans around -even when there were products like Billy and certain Old Frothingslosh and commemorative cans that were known to only have a short production schedule (and this was back in the hey-day of beer can collecting).


An air-filled can, does have an added value in thart they are a rarity (can processed, sealed and released, but with no beer inside), a processing error.

iSeamas wrote:

mrreet2001 wrote:

iSeamas wrote:

I doubt it would have any added value from being full. The collectors usually just want the cans. I'd drain the cans, collectors like to have the pull tab intact, so they drain the beer with nail holes at the bottom. Then again I am assuming that these are cans.

Why wouldn't you just let the collector decide if they wanted the beer in the bottle / can.

It's not doing any harm in there, why would you go out of the way to potentially lower the value of something when it doesn't effect you the way it is.

Does it bring down the value to have the can drained?
I've not seen that to be the case (in collector's circles).

I haven't been part of the can collecting world for some time, but there was no more than a negigable value added to having a full can opposed to a clean, (mint condition) drained can, and I never knew of a collector keeping full cans around -even when there were products like Billy and certain Old Frothingslosh and commemorative cans that were known to only have a short production schedule (and this was back in the hey-day of beer can collecting).


An air-filled can, does have an added value in thart they are a rarity (can processed, sealed and released, but with no beer inside), a processing error.

I think you missed the point ... What is the harm in having the beer in there? To me it just seem pointless to drain the can, when it could potentially reduce the value.

"potential": the possibility of something happening or of someone doing something in the future


I never said it increases or decrease the value. I said it has the potential to decrease the value.
Franky I don't collect beer cans but I do have some collector and antique pop cans and bottles and I enjoy the full ones better, so I would be willing to pay more for an untampered can or bottle if I were to buy more... Granted I may not represent "market value" but I do represent "potential" value increase.

Last edited by mrreet2001 (2008-10-09 2:15 pm)

It still has a POTENTIAL of reducing it's value ... and since it doesn't increase in value when you empty it why would you.

A note -

These are cans, and they still have the plastic thing that holds the six pack together.
Apparently beer can collectors pay more when they are intact in the original six pack like that.

resedit wrote:

Oh - and from my understanding, Billy Beer was a rather crappy beer when it was fresh.

It really doesn't matter what the beer tastes like. When it's a commemorative, you aren't paying for quality beer. You're paying for the container it came in.