I’m going to crack open the last bottle of Brew No. 1 (first brew EVER so has been in the bottle since July 2011...)
Answers on a postcard, will it be:
A – Completely undrinkable
B – Better than when it first came out, but still pretty bad
C – No different from the last time I tried this beer, ie weak, thin and generally cheap ‘homebrew flavour’
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I'd go with c, if that's how it was, age won't replace a lack of body, other aspects might have changed slightly. In general though bad beer won't improve that much, although there are tales about....
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Eoin's right, mate. Ye can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ..... umm ..... F**k It!!! 

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I might vote for B. Time can certainly soften off the edges of bad water, insufficient malt and general inattentivity. However, it may not have improved, if it was really awful!
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The suspense is killing me!!!! (Or has the beer killed you?)Shrunken Reaper wrote:I’m going to crack open the last bottle of Brew No. 1 (first brew EVER so has been in the bottle since July 2011...)
Answers on a postcard, will it be:
A – Completely undrinkable
B – Better than when it first came out, but still pretty bad
C – No different from the last time I tried this beer, ie weak, thin and generally cheap ‘homebrew flavour’
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Geordie Lager, 11 months after brewing. Damn'd if the stuff hadn't got WORSErootsbrew wrote:I might vote for B. Time can certainly soften off the edges of bad water, insufficient malt and general inattentivity. However, it may not have improved, if it was really awful!

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