Does booze go to waste?

I have a bottle of Crown unopened I received as a present at the birth of my first Daughter. couldn't find it on her 21st birthday, now 41 years later, no one is brave enough to open.

I also have a bottle of Cherry Bounce, removed from my Fathers house when he passed. I think it was possible put aside in the '80s. no one dares to open that either.

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I can state from personal experience that booze definitely does go to waist.

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According to this article pre-prohibition whiskey was selling for more than $1,000 a bottle. Some bottles more than 100 years old.

http://whiskyadvocate.com/rare...sties-december-2018/

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I have a bottle of Crown unopened I received as a present at the birth of my first Daughter. couldn't find it on her 21st birthday, now 41 years later, no one is brave enough to open.

I also have a bottle of Cherry Bounce, removed from my Fathers house when he passed. I think it was possible put aside in the '80s. no one dares to open that either.

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I have a bottle of Crown that was my Grandmothers,

dated 1969 on the tax label the State used to put across the cap,

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I found some JD in the cabinet off my Pops house that had separated, dark on bottom near clear on top.
Idk how old it was.

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I can state from personal experience that booze definitely does go to waist.

This. Waste? No. Waist? Yes.

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Should be fine, although we did find an unopened bottle of Wild Turkey in my dad's attic that had the cork dissolve into the whiskey. It was not fine.

Even that *may* have been salvageable. Wine is often "corked" by harmless micro-organisms that eat the cork. Less frequent with whiskey, but it does happen also. The TCA chemical that ruins the taste can usually be sopped up by decanting into a pitcher with a sheet of Saran Wrap, which the TCA preferentially binds to. The spirit won't be 100% restored, but it may be completely drinkable.

Wow, I had no idea! It wasn't anything really special, but it would have been a fun experiment to see if we could have saved it for sure.

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I did some research on this a few years ago. My father collects booze on his world travels and over the years he has amassed quite a lot of spirits. We joke that he is ready and able to make it through a second prohibition (he rarely drinks). One day I decided to see if his stuff dated from the 1980’s was still safe to drink.

If the liquor is 80 proof or more it is basically ok to drink indefinitely. When you start to mess with older liquors and lower proof drinks that’s when you can potentially run into horrific new tastes. Once you drink a rancid Chambord it absolutely RUINS the drink for you in the future.

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Beer definitely does not age well like wine or hard liquor.

I found some in my basement that were 5-6 years old and appeared to almost be curdled. I did not drink them.

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Beer definitely does not age well like wine or hard liquor.

I found some in my basement that were 5-6 years old and appeared to almost be curdled. I did not drink them.

depends on the beer,

I've had 5-6yr old imperial stouts and belgians that were mightly tasty,

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Should be fine, although we did find an unopened bottle of Wild Turkey in my dad's attic that had the cork dissolve into the whiskey. It was not fine.

Even that *may* have been salvageable. Wine is often "corked" by harmless micro-organisms that eat the cork. Less frequent with whiskey, but it does happen also. The TCA chemical that ruins the taste can usually be sopped up by decanting into a pitcher with a sheet of Saran Wrap, which the TCA preferentially binds to. The spirit won't be 100% restored, but it may be completely drinkable.

Wow, I had no idea! It wasn't anything really special, but it would have been a fun experiment to see if we could have saved it for sure.

Here's a video from someone who didn't think it would work. Note that he probably should have filtered for a bit longer, but even so he was surprised. (The binding is pretty rapid. Usually 15-20 minutes is more than enough. You don't want to soak any longer unless you have a severely corked bottle, as the plastic begins leaching into solution.)

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My Aunt lives in the Laurel Highlands area of PA. This guy she knows was a caretaker of a massive stone mansion for the winter. He found a prohibition era stash of Old Overholt Whiskey and drank several cases of it over the winter. Turns out the stuff was worth over $1000 per bottle!!

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