Can You Drink 19 Month Old Cider After Bbd?

[anon52]

Just curious if it'll be alright.
i have opened it and tasted it seems alright, but don't want to drink loads of it and end up sick or whatever.

[ethandron]

Yes, I would. If it tastes ok and looks ok and smells ok then it usually is ok, especially alcohol.

[anon52]

thank you Ethandron!

[ethandron]

Welcome, anon. I accept no responsibility if it goes wrong though... ;)

[anon52]

only one way to find out! will try let you know tomorrow or later today haha!

[ethandron]

Indeed, ha ha or bleurgh..... ;)

[ummmm]

I don't think I've ever looked at dates when it comes to booze :-)

[anon52]

gotta be better than malibu and *** whatever else is in the cupboards lol! tastes pretty much normal if i'm honest! got like 20+ cans of it too! sweet times:P

[ethandron]

Me neither Ummmm. We buy beer to have in but never drink it ourselves so it's always out of date. No one has died yet...

[ummmm]

When my grandad retired, a publican, I took two bottles of cheery brandy as a keep sake. They were 30 years old. Some drunken fool had a go at drinking them!!

[B00]

I know you meant "cherry" ummmm, but I don't half like the idea of a "cheery" one!

[ummmm]

Lol...it wasn't so cheery when he spent hours puking up in the garden :-)

[anon52]

that's what cherry does to you!:P

[mikey4444]

In the West Country, they drink Cider that is many years older than 19 months....it gets better, as it gets older !

[anon52]

Cheers Mikey! makes me feel a bit better about guzzling it down so fast haha!

[mikey4444]

Anon....you may end up with a bright purple nose, and become somewhat simple-minded, but WHF !

As a Lad in the 60's, I lived in Somerset, and all the farm workers drank Cider, the sort with things floating in it....scrumpy as we know it now. It was in the days before VAT, and no Purchase Tax was levied in Cider. So it was cheap !

Most of the Pubs had a separate bar to cater to the cider-trade. All those farm worker had their own large china mug, up behind the Bar, which was only used for cider ( Cider couldn't be served in Pewter Tankards, as the acid in cider reacted with the Pewter )

Be wary of Scumpy though....the place I buy mine, the Forest of Dean, warns that it is "sitting down cider", not standing up cider.

[alavahalf]

The last time I drank cider in Somerset .. the barmaid refused to serve us in the lounge bar. She said "it burned the copper table tops". We were asked to relocate to the public bar.

[anon52]

it's only magners in cans! un-damamged/unopened of course

[Old_Geezer]

Now-a-days the acid reacts with me :-(

[Bumblebee1612]

By now, you would know if that one sip was okay. Many years ago, I took one sip of a BabyCham which tasted weird, so I left the rest of it. I was so sick during the night. Unfortunately, my Dad had heard me being ill overnight and in the morning, I received a rollocking from him because he had assumed that I must have consumed too much alcohol! I'm not sure that he ever believed me!
Going back to your cider, if the cans are in good shape, the contents should be okay to consume. The cans will "blow" if there is bacteria inside them, as bacteria create gases owing to respiration.

[mikey4444]

I would't mind betting that there is an unopened bottle of brown ale, up on a shelf in this place, and it would be perfectly drinkable !

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