I’m having a bad [beer-related] time

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Had Parabola for the first time since easily before the pandemic. It’s still good. But drinking this pour, even over the course of an evening, was a chore. I’m at the point where the perfect amount of an imperial stout would be someone sopping it up with a rag and then wringing it out in my mouth.
 
It's wild to me how much I cared about breweries filling unbranded growlers 15 years ago, and starting ten years ago I couldn't give growlers away. I still have a handful for making cocktails in bulk, but I think it has actually been over a decade since I filled beer in one.
I was so hot about that at the time. Some new brewery would open up and refuse to fill anything except their own growlers. There were times I’d ask for the manager and try to argue my way through the policy.
 
So my group pranks each other with old-ass Eclipses.

I have been hit with Eclipses multiple times:
- my glassware cabinet
- my workout bench
- my NSX trunk
- my Civic trunk
- behind the trash can in our guest bathroom
- some I'm forgetting
- and now, behind the plant in my living room (discovered on Easter)

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These are generally 2010-2011 vintages. I'm starting to distrust anyone that enters the house. Absolute gut-wrencher when I see a bottle of this in my spaces.
Drmoonman i have an idea for all those Bruery bottles.
 
Let's keep this thread going.
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Here is one from 2007 that was best consumed fresh.

I remember having this maybe seven or eight years ago with some members of this forum and it was bad.

It is still bad.

Smells worse than it tastes for sure.

Another victim of oxidation. I never had this fresh, so I can't speak on the color, but it sure doesn't look like an Imperial Wit.
 
Let's keep this thread going.
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Here is one from 2007 that was best consumed fresh.

I remember having this maybe seven or eight years ago with some members of this forum and it was bad.

It is still bad.

Smells worse than it tastes for sure.

Another victim of oxidation. I never had this fresh, so I can't speak on the color, but it sure doesn't look like an Imperial Wit.
That’s a 20 year old Witbier. I liked it fresh but it was fancy Oberon when I had to drive to go pick up cases in person. Batch 8,000 and Poolside were VERY exciting at the time.
 
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