Does old beer have higher alcohol content?

[edro]

I just drank a 4 month old Yuengling and I feel like I drank 4 beers already.

I have made wine kits and they stabilize after the last fermentation step, and only increase alcohol content very slightly over a long period of time.

Does old skunky beer have higher alcohol than a fresh from the factory beer?

 

[IronWing]

Factory beer shouldn't change in alcohol content unless their pasteurization is failing or their cold filters ain't filtering.

 

[Captante]

Most mass-produced beer is pastuerized which kills all active yeast & stops fermentation completely.

Any beer that contains active yeast will continue to ferment very slowly until it reaches acid or somtime alcohol levels which also serve to kill the yeast.

However any increase in alcohol would be so small it would have no noticable effect especially after only one beer.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: edro
I just drank a 4 month old Yuengling and I feel like I drank 4 beers already.

I have made wine kits and they stabilize after the last fermentation step, and only increase alcohol content very slightly over a long period of time.

Does old skunky beer have higher alcohol than a fresh from the factory beer?

u have become a lightweight...sorry

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Chunkee

Originally posted by: edro
I just drank a 4 month old Yuengling and I feel like I drank 4 beers already.

I have made wine kits and they stabilize after the last fermentation step, and only increase alcohol content very slightly over a long period of time.

Does old skunky beer have higher alcohol than a fresh from the factory beer?

u have become a lightweight...sorry

No dinner I suppose...