I know many people prize bottles of five or ten year-old scotch, whiskey, and wine. But surely a bottle of 100 year-old alcohol like that can't taste good? Does it ever go bad after a certain amount of years or stop aging?
2007-09-13 17:24:05 · 4 answers · asked by Live-Creatively.com 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Wine is still living and can develop in the bottle -- after all, theres only about 13-14% alcohol in a bottle of wine -- and thus go bad.
Spirits such as whisky are dead, they don't improve and they don't go bad.
A few wines are drinkable after 100 years and all whiskies will be -- butthere is no point whatsoever in keeping spirits as they will not change with keeping.
2007-09-14 04:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Pontac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know wine will turn into vinegar if exposed to light for too long. However, I don't think whiskey has such a lifespan. That is why it was so popular in the Old West. Beer and everything else had a tendency to spoil in transit to some of the remote Western frontier towns, but whiskey would last all the way out there.
2007-09-13 17:32:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
most wines will be fine if not better after sitting around for a while, it depends on the type of wine whether it'll improve, and occasionally there are fluke bottles that turn to vinegar even though they're apparently sealed spirits will never go bad and some will improve with age, especially if they're stored in an oak barrel or similar beer will go bad, but if it's sealed it lasts a while
2016-05-19 01:23:25 · answer #3 · answered by madonna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wine and beer can, whiskey wont. Some other fruit type drink or even heavily flavored brandy can go bad also, but distilled spirits , vodka, gin, whiskey etc. wont get any better or any worse.
2007-09-13 18:11:31 · answer #4 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋