Does opened whisky go bad?

[TimDoolan]

Or poisonous even? Because I am drinking what very well may be 30+ year old liquor.

[Yetra Flam]

do you have a photo of it?

[TimDoolan]

shit wrong forum my bad

[Yetra Flam]

http://thesuperficial.com/2007/08/09/lindsay-lohan-pregnant.jpg

[silence7]

It never lasts' than long in my house...

Found some answers though....

Whisky only ages when it's in the barrel, never in the bottle. This is a very common mis-conception. After 10 years I'm not surprised it tastes strange! Would you drink anything else that's been say around for 10 years?

Liquor should last forever. While cleaning out my great-great-aunts basement after she passed away my father and I enjoyed a glass of approximately 70 year old moonshine, of which she had at least 10 gallon sized jugs of down there, and it was still as good (or bad?) as I imagine it would havebeen the day it left the still.

Once you hit 40% alcohol or above, really they don't have a practical expiration date. Plus the rate of oxidation slows dramatically. You could store a mostly empty bottle of whiskey in the basement for decades and only slightly risk the chance that it will have developed any weird flavors. I mean if you leave an open bottle hanging around on a shelf it will pick up smells from the air and bugs will die in it, but that's what caps are for. :)

[abcdefz]

This reminded me of the Arrested Development joke. Where the daughter drank the whole bottle of vodka because mom always said it would "go bad" if it wasn't finished. :D