Lynda Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 I have a carton of the 2nd release of vintage ale. Can anyone tell me if it's worth anything, should I drink it, will it be still OK to drink??? Thanks & Happy New Year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haveachat Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Hi, Many Happy returns for the year. Buy vintage Ale isn't about making money it's about drinking an ale that's like Angels dancing on your tongue. If your wanting a tester I'm more than happy to try for you. Enjoy them. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 And even if it was about making money, you'd be disappointed! Just drink it and enjoy. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynda Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 Thanks Oliver & haveachat, appreciate your comments, sounds like I'd better drink it! Cheers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I've got a few second vintage bottles here (a six pack) but most are buggered because they fizzed up and leaked out of the bottles. I'm a bit annoyed about it, because they were perfectly good, and then one day for no reason other than it was a scorcher of a day outside - they pissed all over my cupboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I've found the early ones are very "heady" when opened. I've never had any leak though. Were they stored upright? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 yes and no.. but I wouldn't think it'd matter really - if they're designed to be airtight, then they should be airtight, stored up, down, left, right, or in space (well perhaps not in space where there's a massive vacuum doing its darndest to rip the lid off with the air and liquid inside just busting a gut to get out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paley Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I've got a few second vintage bottles here (a six pack) but most are buggered because they fizzed up and leaked out of the bottles. I'm a bit annoyed about it' date=' because they were perfectly good, and then one day for no reason other than it was a scorcher of a day outside - they pissed all over my cupboard![/quote'] Mmmm - what a waste of pure liquid gold :D The solution I have found up here in Brisbane where it is always bloody warm and humid is to drink a few, then store the rest in a cupboard that I have lined and transfored into a cellar - worked well in the arid areas of SA to save my beers from the scorching heat and works just as well up here! I still have vintage 2 (just over a cartoon left) with the od one or two coming out here and there and they are perfect, nectar of the gods and most of all not heat or transport effected :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Been drinking Vintage 2 for the last two years (bought 8 cartons of the stuff!) and geez it grows on you. Makes 'normal' beer quite pale in comparison! But Im just about out of it now. Maybe I'll have to make a home brew that is designed to age and scoff that instead... like Oliver and Geoff's Millenium Ale (designed to be drunk over the next 100 years - they think big) http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/millenniumale.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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