We wouldn’t try opening them at this stage either, they’d probably explode.
This weekend, we brought you a picture, courtesy of JOE reader Eoin Coonan, of a can of Carslberg that we speculated must be one of the oldest unopened cans of beer in Ireland.
With a best before date of May 1989, it must have been canned sometime in 1988 or possibly even before that, meaning that the Carslberg within has been untouched for the best part of 27 years.
Having suggested that it might be Ireland’s oldest can of unopened beer, it was inevitable that people would respond with their own contenders and, credit to two JOE readers, they’ve come up with absolute beauties.
Tomas Walsh, for example, sent us in this can of Fosters from T Breathnach’s pub in Ballina county Mayo with a Best Before Date of April 1989, meaning it was probably Crocodile Dundee’s choice of tipple a couple of decades ago.
Even more impressively, Kevin Dundon claims that this can of Guinness, which remains unopened in a house in Tallaght and would probably require an industrial strength tin opener to prise open, dates back to the 1950s.
@JOEdotie not sure what year this was but we think it was the 50s. Still unopened in a house in Tallaght #BeatThat pic.twitter.com/HelyeKR2Es
— Kevin Dundon (@dundonator) May 11, 2015
Looking at it, we’re inclined to believe him.
Anyone else have pictures of ancient, unopened cans of beer they’d like to send in?
Just don’t go drinking them whatever you do.
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