My wife had a habit of choosing bottles of beer to buy, and then never getting around to feel like drinking them.

So I recently finished up a few of them.

The most interesting was Zywiec from Poland. Now if you read about beer, the consensus it is safe to drink after it has gone bad.

So I opened the bottle and poured it into a glass. It was somewhat lifeless, and surprisingly more of a copper-colour than a lager gold. In taste it was somewhat like some British bitters too.

I later bought a brand-new can and a bottle, and they were both the golden European lager you would expect.

Someone else from my Zoom pub, dating back to pandemic days, who is British like I am, mused about what this all says about British beers.