Is 6 months too old for a wet hopped IPA?

Absolutely, if you're looking for the experience the brewer intended.

 

I agree, you could not give it a fair rating.

The shelf life on almost every IPA I've ever seen dated is either 3 mos. or 5 mos. (apparently depending in part on the bottling line used by the brewery).

 

That was the case circa 1800. In 2018 that is not the case.

Drink your contemporary IPAs fresh (the fresher the better).

Cheers!

 

Sounds like you bought yourself an expensive blonde ale.

 

You are right in not rating a 6 month. Old ipa, that isn't fair like rating an 80 year old woman for miss america

 

We've all purchased older IPAs, it's just more of a reminder to check bottling dates, but seasonal beers should stick out like a sore thumb.

 

Also in 1800 guys wore buckles on their shoes and wore funny hats and ruffled shirts.

Kinda cool at Routine Culture Brewing in Charlotte maybe 4 beers are tapped right from the tank, can't get it fresher than that. And they make the best IPAs in the state right now IMO.

 

Wet hop beers, id even go so far in saying cut your usual 3ish months "freshness cut off" in half.
Soak up all that fresh green chlorophyll laced goodness.

 

Drink it anyway. It will be a different beer than it was at a month old but you may actually enjoy it, especially if you like the maltier styles, too.

My wife won't drink any IPA unless it's at least six months old and I've scraped the label off so she can't see what it was.

 

You said it wasn't good so you answered your own question.

 

Add some Drain-o to it and clean your pipes!

 

It is perfectly safe to drink. It is not going to go bad. However that beer is designed to show case freshly picked hops At this point the hops have faded and it is a very different beer.
I would suggest making some detailed tasting notes and comparing them to a fresh bottle next fall.
If I have anything left, i try and finish off any wet hop beers Thanksgiving weekend

 

Simple answer Yes.

It will be drinkable, but will have lost most of what it would have tasted like fresh.

 

No need for name calling. He's suggesting that you drain pour the beer but add some draino to it so that your drain pipes get clean.

 

TY.
Man, tough crowd.

 

Might be, but we do have only the written word to go on here with no social cues, etc.

(Check this out.)

http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/02/70179

 

Some BA's in the current WBAYDN thread say the Harvest Ale is holding up fine. But, of course it's not the same as fresh.