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my 1st batch has just turned 1, happy birthday to my brew lol have 4 bottles left but too be hounest dont really tell any difference from when it was about 8 weeks old

My oldest brew is about 3 months old and only have about 10 bottles left. I only keep them long enough to have a bit of variety in the stocks.

I have a 10 year old

Dogger

To be honest, i really think homebrew is best consumed at about 4 months. I dont think it gets much better after this. Ive tasted some great young brews, and some crap old brews.

How can you possibly leave them that long anyway ??

2-3 months, but I only make ales in the darker shades and have heard that they need longer to mature. My beer's potential life span is non too good after this point as I tend to get a little thristy.

Maybe not true about the darker ale thing but I pay it,
Jay.

I have found that lagers/light ales about 3 - 4 months is good and not a lot of improvement after that. I have some that are 2 years old. Dark ales and stouts I have found 6 - 8 months has a great improvement and have had some up to 3 years old.

I have found that after 3-4 months for lagers/lighter ales the improvement is minimal and the improvement is minimal for darker beers after 6-8 months.

I have also noticed after playing with grains that aging is not a good thing as the grain flavour drops off over time (if you wanted the grain flavour there).

Pelican,

Check out this thread: http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... .php?t=359

On it, I describe my eight-year-old imperial stout.

Oliver