Many dark beers as porters are vintage-marked. Probably because they last for 5-10 years. Most belgian beers keep for 3 years, many for as much as 5 and some as long as 10 years. /Angus, who has a bottle of '89 Carnegie Porter sleeping in his bookshelf. --- "Olwen the Odd" > wrote: > >>You mean, beers now have vintages? Heavens, that's something I thought >>I'd never see. . . >> >>Alban > >We have a lot of local breweries around here in Maryland and surrounding >states. I suppose a lot of places do. Some of the seasonal beers are just >a riot. I have been known to show up at the Guild Hall with six packs of >stuff like Death by Taxes, Frogwater, Vampire, cripes my mind is blanking on >some of the silly names. Sometimes the beer is good. Sometimes we use it >to cook with. >Olwen >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > >_______________________________________________ >Sca-cooks mailing list >Sca-cooks@ansteorra.org >http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks == Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! ---Caligula _____________________________________________________________ Get your own mando cool and totally free email@iamawitch.com address at http://freemail.iamawitch.com today!