For how long are spirits/liqueurs good as well as safe to drink?
Just spent the entire day with a team of people cleaning out my house and garage for a move and subsequent estate sale after living in this house for 40 years. I'm a little weary, so if this doesn't make sense, please forgive.
Long story hopefully short -- about 25 years ago portions of my house burned, so stashed some things in the garage prior to moving to an apartment for about six months waiting for repairs to the house to be completed. I never retrieved everything from the garage. We discovered today a case of various spirits and liqueurs. Some appeared to be unopened; some I'm not sure.
Are they still good and safe to drink? The "organizers" said not to take a chance, to put them into the estate sale. I dropped the subject. However, if they're not safe to drink, I certainly don't want to put them into an estate sale and possibly endanger other people. On the other hand, at today's prices, there must be maybe a couple of hundred dollars' worth there, so naturally I'd like to be able to use them.
They've been in the garage for 25 or so years, during hot Texas summers. The bottles were individually wrapped in paper, then placed in liquor boxes and taped shut .
What do you say? Thanks for your thoughts and expertise. I haven't yet done an internet search.
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A few months ago I discovered a bottle of 12 year old single-malt whisky that I had bought on sale and kept around the office on the off chance a drink was called for, when I re-discovered it, the bottle had aged another bunch of years, though as I understand it aging in the bottle doesn't count.
When I opened it, the whisky tasted like every other whisky I've ever drank, i.e. like whisky.
It was distilled in 84 so I think I bought it around 98.
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jmcarthur8
Sep 12, 2012 01:48 PM
My mother brought some Kahlua with her when she came to visit one time because someone had given it to her as a gift, and she couldn't drink it all up. We used some in some brownies with frosting, and they tasted off. Then I went back and sniffed the Kahlua and asked her how long ago the friend had given it to her. "Oh, thirteen years..".
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