Franconian Beer Message Board
Witzgall Landbier expiration |
| Posted by Nick B. on 2009-05-09 01:26:57 |
| I bought a couple of cases/racks/crates a year or two ago, and over the course of a couple of months in the cellar, they went very gassy and ...what I describe as "walnutty". A good case and a half ended up in recycling. Ah well. It's bette at the Keller anyway. And *even better* after working up a sweat to get to the Keller! Bottled beer must be "fresh until" dated in Germany, by law. Beer may not be sold past this date. My local Getränke guy sold me a 2L bottle of a Xmas Festbier for 4 € (normal price 12 €) a year ago that was a couple of days past the expiration--it was legal because he just sold me the bottle, not the beer inside. (At least that's what we agreed to tell the Bierhaltbarkeitspolizei!) Every brewery seems to their own idea to determine the "fresh until" date. I've found that bottles from small, traditional, Franconian brewers don't age as well as bottles from Oregonian microbrewers do. Maybe this is largely do to the latter being top-fermented and more often bottle-conditioned, but maybe also because the Francian brewers have more trouble with oxygen in their bottling lines? Anyone? |