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Does Beer Expire — And Is It OK to Drink Old Beer?

VinePair

A 12-percent ABV, coffee-graham cracker stout will taste better after a year in the cellar than a blueberry pie milkshake IPA — lactose, unsurprisingly, doesn’t age well. That said, heavier beers like stouts and porters fair relatively well with age, and can hold up in flavor after a couple years in the cellar.

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Nonalcoholic Beer Is Becoming Essential to the Success of Breweries

Imbibe Magazine

Excess equaled excellence in IPAs and imperial stouts, and customers craved more, more, more. Insurgent craft breweries, so good at creating characterful stouts and pale ales, didnt dabble in NA beer due to cost. From the perspective of food safety, its crucial to pasteurize NA beer, a step beyond local breweries capabilities.

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