Not very sure whether you guys remembered my first home brewed beer? It is the Cooper’s Australian Pale Ale brew I made in February. And a lot of my friends really enjoyed this beer. They say that it tasted very clean, is very easy to drink and have a very nice aroma to it. I myself really enjoy drinking it as well. However, it taste like those commerical beers which doesn’t have much flavours to it. Sort of like commerical lager like Carlsberg. Well, a bit like Carlsberg. Very low alcoholic content it has but with very little aftertaste and a just right level of bitterness, who can complain? Anyway, most of the work I would contribute to Coopers, whom I think did a good job creating this beer kit for us to enjoy.

However, I have some surprising news! I have found one bottle remaining from that batch. One of my friends took 14 bottles and he returned 13. And after wondering what happened to that last bottle, he finally found it hidden in one corner of his house! Yes, that means the beer has been aging in that bottle for 4-5 months! Woooohooooo! And so without any hesitation, we decided to have a drink from this bottle. Guys, I tell you, beer never tasted so good! I am not making this up. Aged beer really taste very very good. The flavour is smooth, there is absolutely no hashness in the beer. Tasted like heaven. Of course, it is still too low in alcohol so it doesn’t give enough kick, but other than that, it tasted just wonderful. We finished that bottle (740ml) in just 10 minutes. We were literally grabbing for the bottle.

So finally after reading what people say about aging beers and so on, I finally had my own experience. And after tasting that Australian Pale Ale, I can only say that in the future, my beers will be aged for very long. Too bad all of my beers are currentled bottled in plastic PET bottles. But now that I have started to use glass, they should be able to be aged even longer without losing carbonation!