‘It Was Good’: Coors Beer From 50 Years Ago Ages Like A Fine Wine

VERMILLION, SD — Wine and champagne are said to taste better when aged, but what about beer?

That’s not too shabby, either, said one woman who drank from a 50-year-old can of Coors earlier this year.

“I thought it was very tasty, I was surprised,” Diane Nesselhuf told the KCAU news outlet in southeastern South Dakota. “I thought it would be full of crap, but it was good.”

Nesselhuf and her now-late husband, Ed Nesselhuf, bought the can of beer in 1971, shortly after they got married when on a trip to visit Ed Nesselhuf's family in Colorado. They made a pact to keep it unopened until they could share it on their 50th wedding anniversary.

Ed Nesselhuf died in 2016. But the couple’s son, Ben Nesselhuf, promised that he would share the beer with his mom when the 50th anniversary would come on Feb. 14, 2021.

“The last few weeks of his life, it was clear he wasn’t going to make it to another anniversary. I did tell him that on the 50th, I’d split the beer with mom,” Ben Nesselhuf told KCAU, sharing a video of the moment five decades in the making.

“If you never hear from us again, it’s because we have botulism (a rare form of food poisoning),” Diane Nesselhuf joked before her son opened the can.

But “it was good,” she said after taking a sip.

“It tastes sweet,” her son added.

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The 8-ounce can of Coors Banquet beer had been all over the country over the past 50 years as the Nesselhufs lived in Wisconsin, Minneapolis, British Columbia, Maryland and different places in South Dakota for Ed Nesselhuf’s job as an ordained Lutheran pastor.

Ben Nesselhuf told KCAU his dad told him about the beer can when he was 10 years old and that it would probably turn to “sludge.”

It obviously didn’t, and even still had some suds intact. Compared to a newly bought can of Coors that Ben Nesselhuf showed for comparison, the contents looked about the same.

Much like a fine wine, this can of Coors beat the test of time.