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Originally Posted by Scott Zuhse
The shelf life is normally determined by flavor panelist at the brewery as to what they deem acceptable. These folks not only have high sensory skills, they are trained on how to use them. Their expectations are probably much higher than ours in regards to the quality of their products.
Where we may be quite satisfied with the flavor, they would deem it undesirable.
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And then there are some people who apparently have no taste buds whatsoever.... Take one of my friends, for example. He got a keg of Bud Light for New Years Eve. He couldn't find one, but I managed to get one for him. So I picked it up, payed the deposit, etc, and brought it over to his house. We used a plain old hand pump party tap. New Years eve was on a Monday night this past year.
So ANYWAYS... I called him the following Sunday to see if he was home and I could pick up the keg to return... to which he informed me that he was still drinking off of it. He finally finished it on a Wednesday night, like 9 days after we tapped it. Man that beer had to be gross. I've tried in the past to drink beer out of a Keg on a Sunday that had been tapped on a Friday. And THAT beer was bad.