Advocaat - Does It Keep?

losgigs | 20:21 Sun 20th Apr 2014 | Food & Drink

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Have a half-full bottle of advocaat in the cupboard which OH says should be thrown out as it will have gone off since it contains eggs. I thought that with the high alcohol content (17.5%) it wouldn't go off. There's no 'best before' or 'use by' date on it though it could be so old that putting such dates on wasn't necessary then! Would do you think?

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Hopkirk

How does it smell?

Gizmonster

An unopened bottle will keep for quite a while.
However, once it's been opened .... well, take a chance if you want. I'd guess at a shelf life of a few months max, assuming it has been stored in a cool place.
You've really answered your own question, it contains eggs .... the fact that it's mixed with alcohol is irrelevant, the eggs will eventually curdle.

scorpiojo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/egg_liqueur

losgigs

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It smells fine, certainly doesn't smell 'off'. Don't want to risk even a small taste as just got over a stomach bug and don't want to risk it!

losgigs

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Thanks for the link, scorpiojo. Down the sink it goes!.

Gizmonster

I feel your pain - we had to do the same with our last bottle. It smelt fine, but God knows how old it was .... *glug glug* ..... down the sink it went :(

sunny-dave

I've never fancied Advocaat since, when I was a young lad, I asked my uncle what it was like :

"Like gargling with phlegm, lad"

Ratty2E

Well Ive recently finished off a bottle we started in Christmas 2012, it lived in a cupboard. I'd never even considered that it might go off and as far as I was concerned it tasted as it should and I'm still alive to tell the tale. I'm pretty sure when I was a kid we had a bottle that was almost an heirloom that just provided a couple of snowballs once a year at Christmas.

losgigs

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Thanks for the varied and interesting responses. To ratty - I'm sure we also had a bottle that was kept over many years and only drunk on the odd occasion. Don't think I'll be buying anymore though!