can i drink a 5+ year old opened bottle of brandy?

[crazycarl]

well, i know its desparate but hey i'm poor and unemployed and bored...
will it have turned to poison or something? i have heard references to it being 'undrinkable' but nothing about toxicity.
any other crazy fools have advice? hehehheh

 

[Jzero]

Turned to poison? Toxic? Isn't already 20+% alcohol to begin with?!

 

[Zim Hosein]

can i drink a 5+ year old opened bottle of brandy?

YES!

 

[booger711]

Originally posted by: crazycarl
well, i know its desparate but hey i'm poor and unemployed and bored...
will it have turned to poison or something? i have heard references to it being 'undrinkable' but nothing about toxicity.
any other crazy fools have advice? hehehheh

go ahead and drink it. you'll find out in a little bit.

 

[ohtwell]

I wouldn't drink it!


: ) Amanda

 

[isasir]

Hmm... I wasn't aware that alcohol goes bad. Tho' I guess anything could go bad if left opened (well in terms of unscrewing the top) for 10+ years.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Turned to poison? Toxic? Isn't already 20+% alcohol to begin with?!

werd. STFU and drink.

 

[Scouzer]

i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

...

 

You can drink vanilla extract instead!

 

[sniperruff]

i think it might actually taste smoother.

other than it might taste a little bit different, i don't see what not. bacteria does not like alcohol very much, so you shouldn't have a wet one.

 

[crazycarl]

yea i just remember that wine will spoil if left open. actually reading more shows that the wine will spoil cuz of bacteria. guess i will find out and post results!

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: isasir
Hmm... I wasn't aware that alcohol goes bad. Tho' I guess anything could go bad if left opened (well in terms of unscrewing the top) for 10+ years.

Except honey.

 

[wiredspider]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

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That's exactly what I thought this said!

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: wiredspider

Originally posted by: Scouzer
i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

...

That's exactly what I thought this said!

Same here. :Q

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: wiredspider

Originally posted by: Scouzer
i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

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That's exactly what I thought this said!

Same here. :Q

Ditto. I don't know about anyone else, but my house has some rules! No drinking until you're old enough to drive (or at least see over the steering wheel!)

 

[Gurck]

I thought it said that too. Anyway I put down some ~10 year opened tequila the other day, was pretty smooth but seemed fine otherwise. If it smells ok it probably is ok.

 

[waggy]

NO NO the brandy is going to suck!

so what you should do is send it to me. i can err dispose of it properly for you!

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: wiredspider

Originally posted by: Scouzer
i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

...

That's exactly what I thought this said!

Same here. :Q

i read it as can a 5 year old open a bottle of brandy :!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I don't know about brandy but a lot of liquor sits in barrels for years to get its taste. I don't see how sitting in a bottle for years would hurt it, though it probably would affect the taste.

 

[Kipper]

You basically drink brandy for one purpose: to achieve various levels of physical incompetence. So if it's older brandy, who cares? It's still alcohol. I've drank beer that was about six months out of date. Tasted like crap, got me drunk.

 

[FooKilla]

Originally posted by: crazycarl
well, i know its desparate but hey i'm poor and unemployed and bored...
will it have turned to poison or something? i have heard references to it being 'undrinkable' but nothing about toxicity.
any other crazy fools have advice? hehehheh

Your gonna die!! dont do it! send it to me instead.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Turned to poison? Toxic? Isn't already 20+% alcohol to begin with?!

LOL

 

[Evadman]

It will likely taste funny, but still be good. Brandy ages excelently, but usually in a sealed contaner.

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

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me too,

 

[mjrpes2]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: wiredspider

Originally posted by: Scouzer
i read that as

can a 5 year old drink an opened bottle of brandy

...

That's exactly what I thought this said!

Same here. :Q

Same. My mind initially started to read the whole title, but was caught off guard by the + (plus) symbol and the lowercase "i". Confronting this difficulty (you don't often confront the plus symbol in reading, and the lowercase "i" is weird too), my mind decided to skip past interpreting the title word by word and instead tried to decipher the meaning by piecing together key phrases: specifically "5 year old" and "opened bottle of brandy" (the other words are more common and thus are more easily dropped). Based on these two key phrases, and the fact that many topics are posted on anandtech OT with the intent of surprising us and challenging commonly held assumptions, my mind immediately came to the conclusion that the thread was about whether a 5 year old could (should?) drink an opened bottle of brandy.

Usually questions like this are posed after the conditions have already occured (the poster knowing full well the answer is NO but thinking it a good attention grabber as topic title). I was ready for the worst.

Strange how that happens.