Beer best By dates

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by wdmso

I went hunting for some of my Favorite Octoberfest Beers Found all 3

Yet one Case Spaten had a best Buy Date of 11\2023

I called the Store to tell them this was old stock and they insisted it was still good. I tried to explain to them I didn't pay 50.00 a case form last years leftovers... some how they couldn't Grasp what i was telling them
then the the excuse turned was well that's what we got from the distributor . and again I told them then your your distributor is giving you last years Batch of octoberfest

My wife claims I am over reacting .. yet my other 2 brands Paulaner and Hacker Pschorr all have best till 2024

thoughts they say they'll take them back so I Am i being unreasonable

Well that sucks, I'll say this, I have beer i brewed a year ago, sored in the basement/shop room temp., I use natural carbonation to give me my "fizz" no forced carb. like the big guys. the beer is just as good, and in some cases better than it was at the 6-month mark... so your probably OK, but like you said $50 bucks a case you want a good product, at that price i can brew 45-50 bottles. "Back in the day" it was illegal to brew in summer in Bavaria, Marzen was brewed in March, laagered all summer in caves for the falls Oktoberfest, long before the feist bier craze, those Marzens were higher in alcohol and had more hops as a preservative...