Quick question Crowler heads,, What do you think the life on an unopened refrigerated crowler. Like a Angry Chair German Chocolate Cupcake and a Rainbow Sherbert. It seems like with refrigeration, they should be ok before 30 days. Im asking because my drinking group got some crowlers this past week and might not be able to get to them for 2 more weeks. Does that make that much of a difference? We have some Angry Chair stouts and some 8th State sours all in crowlers. Seems like being kept refrigerated, we are ok. And comments or help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
as long as they were packaged and sealed properly you should have no issues waiting a couple of weeks. I would definitely keep them refrigerated though. I must admit that I have had crowlers several months after they were purchased and I’ve never had an issue with one of them.
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Maybe hide them for 40 years or so, then pull them out just to prove there ever was such a concoction. But what do I know?
Yes, as long as the seam was successful then you basically have a can that didn't have the best oxygen exclusion at packaging. For lighter styles and especially beers that prominently feature aroma hops I figure they ought to be consumed within a few days. For, what I assume are, stouts you will probably be fine for a month or two. 2 months might be sort of like emulating 6 or 8 months in the "cellar "
Never bought too many crowlers - but it seems to me that the life of a growler is greatly enhanced by the practice of flowing CO2 into the vessel before filling. Do Crowler fillers do the same thing ? Either way - longevity of the beer inside is going to depend mostly on how much O2 gets in during packaging - and probably to a lesser extent the style and abv of the beer. When done right w/the purge - I’ve gotten 6 weeks plus out of a growler of stout/DIPA etc.
I've had no issues with letting crowlers of any beer style sit for weeks or even a month or two. Of course, they usually have remained refrigerated the bulk of the time.
I've purchased prefilled growlers, and I've purchased some that I've watched the bartender fill and cap. I always try to drink within a few days, so I don't have any experience to report with keeping them for an extended time period. However, every time I open one within a few days I notice a decline in carbonation. Maybe that's a reflection of how the crowler is filled because each time that I've watched it happen, the can was filled from the tap by pouring gently down the inside of the can, which I assume is not the approved procedure. I'd think the use of a bottom-fill tube attached to the faucet has to be used in order to minimize the loss of carbonation. Maybe the loss of some carbonation isn't so important with stouts, so keeping them longer probably is okay. As long as proper sanitation is used you probably don't have to worry about losing the beer to infection taking hold over the longer storage period, but maybe the poorly trained barkeep also wasn't taught proper sanitation either. The short answer to the question: I think it depends on the quality of the filling process.
Exactly. Properly filled and stored: My experience is that crowlers will keep just about as well as canned. Key word, “about.”
