Oldest item in your food cupboard

[Mcr Warrior]

How long can bottled beers be stored for and still remain drinkable?

 

[Trackman]

It's not exactly food but I have some bottles of a Greene King beer brewed in 1936 for the coronation of Edward VIII. I also have some Whitbread Celebration Ales brewed in 1992 to mark their 250 years of brewing.

I have a bottle of non-vintage champagne from 1992. Don't think it's drinkable now.
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Back to food, there was a couple a few years ago who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
As a wedding present they were given a Fray Bentos style tinned pie.
They decided to eat it and said it was jolly good an they had no ill effects.
I've tried to find the story without much luck. Could have been in a local rag on a slow news day.

How long can bottled beers be stored for and still remain drinkable?

In my local the landlady found a few bottles of Becks that were 12 months out of date (rolled under something).
I said 'I'll have them, don't throw them away!'
Anyway took them home and chilled them and they were as flat as a pancake so I threw them away.

 

[randyrippley]

How long can bottled beers be stored for and still remain drinkable?

depends on the strength of the beer, sugar content, degree of acidity, whether it's pasteurised or filtered, storage temperature, whether it's kept in the dark.
In theory potentially a long time, practice often proves otherwise

I have a bottle of non-vintage champagne from 1992. Don't think it's drinkable now.

It's probably OK as long as it's been kept away from light and excessive heat

In my local the landlady found a few bottles of Becks that were 12 months out of date (rolled under something).
I said 'I'll have them, don't throw them away!'
Anyway took them home and chilled them and they were as flat as a pancake so I threw them away.

Those rubber ring seals on Becks bottles aren't very airtight. The gas escapes

 

[Trackman]

Those rubber ring seals on Becks bottles aren't very airtight. The gas escapes

Don't think they were rubber but whatever it was they perish after time like with rubber. The bottles didn't leak though

It's probably OK as long as it's been kept away from light and excessive heat

Indeed it was. For the hell of it, going to chill it at the weekend and have a bit of taste (I'm not a bin champagne fan). Sick of looking at it in the cupboard.

 

[randyrippley]

Indeed it was. For the hell of it, going to chill it at the weekend and have a bit of taste (I'm not a bin champagne fan). Sick of looking at it in the cupboard.

I opened a Methuselah (8-bottles bottle) of Veuve Clicquot that had been in the loft for 30 years and it was fine.

 

[Busaholic]

I opened a Methuselah (8-bottles bottle) of Veuve Clicquot that had been in the loft for 30 years and it was fine.

Ah, the Widow was a quality champagne house, though. The only champagne I've ever had that I thought was outstanding was a half bottle of Veuve Clicquot, not that I'm a regular imbiber.

 

[LUYMun]

During the first lockdown, while living at a previous address, my mum discovered a packet of Colman's Beef Seasoning Mix in the very back of some kitchen cupboards, with an expiry date listing October 1997.