Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.wines Subject: Wine and Beer -- preservation issues Message-ID: <731@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:43:02 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.731 Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:43:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:03:01 EDT Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 35 A couple queries: Re wines opened too young to check them out -- can such a wine be rebottled and stored away for continued aging? (Perhaps by putting the untasted part in a half-sized bottle and recorking it [accepted that this probably needs a machine to do well], and putting it back in the cellar? Or will the one-time opening, decanting, etc., have had such an effect that a) it will not age from then on, at least properly; or, b) even though it will age it will have been altered in such a manner that it is no longer representative of the rest of the bottles that have aged untouched, so it could not be reliably checked again later as a test of the batch?) This wouldn't be worth the trouble for a cheap wine, but I could see it for something that cost, say, $20+ per bottle. Re beers, exotic and imported or regional bought elsewhere -- my first thought on reading the posting of the person who disliked the Anchor beer he bought at a "local liquor store" away from the Bay area was that he got an overpriced but spoiled pack of beer. Would not that explain his antagonistic reaction? There is a local store here (St. Louis) with hundreds (or so it seems) of imported beers. They cannot have much turnover for much of this stock -- I'm sure much of it is old and spoiled and not representative of the label. Yet I know of no way to determine this prior to purchase, and, then, aftwrwards, how to tell if the beer is really spoiled or it is a type you don't like, or a flavor you don't agree with... This problem keeps me from trying many different beers. Are there some generic rules about bottled or canned beers, in terms of age? Is any beer over "n" months old likely to be undrinkable, especially if it spent 3 months of that in a ship and sitting on a dock in the sun? Regards, Will Martin UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA