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Old 24-12-2013, 09:43 PM   #1
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Just found a six pack of VB in the cupboard... It says " best before September 2013 ".
Any thoughts on how good it would still be???

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Old 24-12-2013, 09:47 PM   #2
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VB has never been "good" in my books.

Stick it in the fridge and give it a try.

If it's ends up crap, feed it to your dog or the lemon tree!

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Old 24-12-2013, 09:51 PM   #3
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It couldn't possibly get any worse.
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Old 24-12-2013, 09:56 PM   #4
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Its best before not use by. Will be fine.
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Never saw VB as being fit for human consumption.

Can't be any worse than what it is when its in-date.
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Old 24-12-2013, 11:20 PM   #6
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Is beer, is good! However, beer does not have a long shelf life. It does not get better with age like whisky. It just goes off...
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Old 25-12-2013, 01:14 PM   #7
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Just opened one of the beers... bit flat but very drinkable. no rust on the lids...
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Old 25-12-2013, 01:40 PM   #8
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Just opened one of the beers... bit flat but very drinkable. no rust on the lids...
If there was rust then it would be well past it's best before date......
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Old 25-12-2013, 02:03 PM   #9
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How did you drink it mate, Desert dry, Kimberley cool or Ice cold?

Sometimes I will tolerate average ales when icy cold.

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VB that's gone past it's best before date would still be better than A fresh Crown or Crownie as the limp wristers call it!!!


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Throw it away and invest in Coopers pale or sparkling.
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Old 25-12-2013, 03:14 PM   #12
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Just drink it Freddy. After the 1st few it all tastes good!
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Old 25-12-2013, 05:58 PM   #13
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I've never used VB and beer in the same sentence...... until now.
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Old 25-12-2013, 06:17 PM   #14
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We use to do the VB "throwdowns" when I was in my 20s quite regularly.

Where they 250ml?

Tasted like Camel P...s but use to get the job done.
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Old 25-12-2013, 06:32 PM   #15
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keep in fridge for people you hate
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Is beer, is good! However, beer does not have a long shelf life. It does not get better with age like whisky. It just goes off...
There's quite a few styles of beers and barley-wines that will improve with age. VB not so much (or at all), just serve it icy-cold and it shouldn't taste any worse than it usually would
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Old 25-12-2013, 07:20 PM   #17
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of all those that bag VB. I wonder how many of you drink crown's (re:RobDogg's post)
or corona's..

Now if you want to portray anything to likes of a vile brew... a more vile brew you could not find.. even if you add the lemon like a true metrosexual.
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Just don't open the session with that six pack. Knock back a dozen then be brave. Although I have been known to commit a dog act, taking a very old hot stale VB six pack into a drive thru and swapping for a nice cold 6 pack. Pure evil...
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Is beer, is good! However, beer does not have a long shelf life. It does not get better with age like whisky. It just goes off...
Coopers Vintage is supposed to be stored for two years for best drinking.
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Old 25-12-2013, 11:13 PM   #20
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Just don't open the session with that six pack. Knock back a dozen then be brave. Although I have been known to commit a dog act, taking a very old hot stale VB six pack into a drive thru and swapping for a nice cold 6 pack. Pure evil...

Hahaha I like it that's a ballsy move indeed
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Old 25-12-2013, 11:15 PM   #21
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I thought beer doesn't go off, just has a "best before" not "use by" date?

We had some real old crownies that were at least 4 years old and they werent too bad.
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of all those that bag VB. I wonder how many of you drink crown's (re:RobDogg's post)
or corona's..

Now if you want to portray anything to likes of a vile brew... a more vile brew you could not find.. even if you add the lemon like a true metrosexual.


100% 'Metro' here, with Lime however. Is that less ghey? lol
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of all those that bag VB. I wonder how many of you drink crown's (re:RobDogg's post)
or corona's..

Now if you want to portray anything to likes of a vile brew... a more vile brew you could not find.. even if you add the lemon like a true metrosexual.
Pegged me from a mile out...guilty on 2 counts, three if you add the lemon.

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How did you drink it mate, Desert dry, Kimberley cool or Ice cold?

Sometimes I will tolerate average ales when icy cold.

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of all those that bag VB. I wonder how many of you drink crown's (re:RobDogg's post)
or corona's..

Now if you want to portray anything to likes of a vile brew... a more vile brew you could not find.. even if you add the lemon like a true metrosexual.
Agreed. I laugh at people who think they are trendy for drinking some 'fancy' imported beer. IMO pretty much all beer tastes like cat urine, the label makes very little difference.
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Now if you want to portray anything to likes of a vile brew... a more vile brew you could not find.. even if you add the lemon like a true metrosexual.
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I saw a bloke the other day walking out of Liquer land with four boxes of that crap......Most expensive and worst tasting beer from CUB ever....New 'old recipe' 4.9 VB not much better....

I got Stella Artois for $40....Still on it today..... Coopers are all great and independent to...Sparkling Ale is 5.7%......Support your locals!

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Coopers Vintage is supposed to be stored for two years for best drinking.
Ye and its bloody 8%....One 6 pack and you are toast!

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Crownies are nothing more than Fosters (export version) not he Australian Version or as I got informed by one of the boys form Abbottsford when I did some work there that "Crownies are nothing more than Fosters In Spec and used for Fosters for export and Fosters sold in Australia is the out of spec".
Don't know how true but we did the taste test with some Crown Lager "experts" they could pick when we weren't giving them Crownies up until the Fosters glass, they though it was a Crownie, so maybe truth is in the taste.
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