Skunky beverages

What was the name of that skunky beer? Just asking!! I've never met a beer I didn't like! If it was skunky I just thought that I was a Roman soldier back in the day.

I don't drink enough beer these days to warrant buying it by the case.  I'm fortunate that I live in an area that is overrun with small batch brewers, so when I buy beer, it's always cold and delicious.

Every now and then I get a skunky beer, about 20 years ago I got one with a june bug in it, got turned off on that brand all together. I did take it back un-opened and was given a free dozen of my choice.

badeye   

Absolutely I have.  It's surprising that Miller Lite got skunked.  As I understand it, and I'm certainly no expert on it, is the skunking is a result of the beer spoiling.  It is after all somewhat like a bread or cake in that it relies on grains and yeast, so it doesn't last forever.  Light and heat are generally what work on a beer.  My guess is that your case was left in a hot truck.  Light is unlikely, unless that happened at your house because it would have been inside the cardboard box from the bottler keeping it dark until getting to your house.  So it probably got hot.  Miller Lite has enough "stuff" in it to keep it preserved to prevent that is why I'm surprised.  The "craft" beers that use only water, grain, hops, and yeast are the ones that skunk easiest.  I used to buy a fair number of Canadian beers, but gave up on them when the "skunk" quotient got too high.  Grolsch is another brand that seems to be skunked more often than not by the time it gets to me. 

So, anyway, it's a normal thing.  It's an unusual thing for Miller Lite or other fairly highly processed beers like that.  And you handled it exactly right.  No sense in drinking something that you don't like the taste.  It wouldn't have hurt you any.  But why bother, eh?

- Zurf

I can probably name 30 beers that I like, as a matter of fact I cant think of one that I don't like, I mean we are talking about beer here. As far as warm beer I will have to disagree with you on that one. For me the colder the better, You know you have them right when little ice chunks form at the top when you open the beer.

I have have always preferred the German beers, not the imports, but the real thing.  And I have had a few English beers in England, ales more aptly, and I prefer those over any AAmericam beer.  However, I do not like most of the European import beers here in the states, so When I drink, I have American these days and I usually suffer through a six pack or three before I have had enough.  I'll drink any kind, if I have to.

I just cracked a brand new bottle of Jameson 12 this afternoon.

Mmmmmm......   uisce beatha.