u/Bigg_Fugg

I'm visiting Northern Albania on a trip through the Balkans and I have serial times purchased beer from rural and urban sellers that have tasted off, with some of it being just terrible tasting. I have only bought the local Albanian / Kosovo brands, and had similar problems in Montenegro with their local beer sometimes tasting bad too. What's going on with this? The dates say they don't expire for a long time, do people just store their beer outside in the sun or something?