Stone Smoked Porter w/ Vanilla Bean

Discussion in 'Cellaring / Aging Beer' started by deleted_user_950283, May 25, 2015.

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  1. deleted_user_950283

    deleted_user_950283 Initiate (0) Feb 25, 2015
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    Picked up a bottle of this at a wine shop this weekend. Just noticed it says best before 3/13/14 and drink fresh on it. So what aspects of this brew wouldn't age well enough to put the option on the label? Just looked it up on the Stone website and they have an option to report the sale of out of date beer with a disclaimer that the vendor will not get in trouble. I age a lot of dark beers and it seems this one sounds like a good choice.
     
    #1 deleted_user_950283, May 25, 2015
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  2. bcc

    bcc Initiate (0) Feb 2, 2013 Kansas

    I had kept a orange/chocolate smoked porter around for too long. But drank it and it held up awesome. Really impressive beer. Led me to buy the vanilla one. I haven't opened it yet.
     
    #2 bcc, May 26, 2015
  3. deleted_user_950283

    deleted_user_950283 Initiate (0) Feb 25, 2015
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    Had it last night and was very good. They should label it with the aging option.
     
    #3 deleted_user_950283, May 26, 2015
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  4. RDMII

    RDMII Initiate (0) Apr 11, 2010 Georgia

    They're covering their asses. If indeed the beer falls apart (they wouldn't know, it's a new beer for them), they can say it tasted bad because it was old. All breweries do this.
     
    #4 RDMII, May 26, 2015
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