Beer Shelf Life

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

I've aged Anchor Holiday Ale for 3 years with no issue. Belgian ales can age for decades.

The type of ale is an important factor, typically the only ales that are "aging worthy" are high gravity/high hops like IPA's, beligians, barley wines, etc.

Very few "beers" fall into this catagory, you're most talking about ales. People shouldn't think that just an average run of the mill lager/blonde, etc is going to be okay 1 year after it was bottled, that's simply not the case.