Does Alcohol Go Bad? It Might Be Time to Replace Your Bottles [Video]

Wine people approach the storage and consumption of their collections rigorously. There are apps for tracking the most optimal moment for a bottle of wine to be consumed, wine refrigerators have multi-zone technology to store Bordeaux at a different temperature than Champagne, and wine service is a whole other area of nuance. 

Consumers aren’t nearly as precious about their spirits. Liquor bottles are typically stuffed on a bar cart, in the back of a cabinet, or buried somewhere in the freezer. But spirits, liqueurs, vermouths, and amaro have different lifespans. The way they’re stored and when they expire varies widely between categories. 

One simple trick to keeping spirits and liqueurs fresh is to buy smaller bottles, and purchase them more often. 

“A small bottle allows the consumer to go through the product in its entirety before it begins to change in both flavor and aroma,” says Jason Asher, founding partner of Phoenix’s Century Grand. Better …