{"id":3102,"date":"2020-03-15T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:12:31","slug":"beyond-the-bottle-do-you-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-do-you-cellar\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: Do You Cellar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beer<\/a>A number of beers recently featured in the club have been vintage bottles, picked specifically because they\u2019re drinking at their prime, and it\u2019s had me thinking a lot about cellaring overall lately. I\u2019ll start by saying, despite writing about beer professionally for about a decade, I tend to feel pretty out-there when it comes to discussing beer cellars or beer collections\u2026 I have (I checked) literally one bottle of cellared beer right now. It\u2019s in our kitchen cupboard, and I didn\u2019t buy it. Our little wine fridge is focused on younger Pinots and Tablas Creek releases.<\/p>\n

This is very much personal preference, and it\u2019s evolved a bit over the years. When we lived in DC and I was trading beer regularly, we at least had a closet full of ageable beer\u2014but that was functionally more of an on-deck circle for the regular tastings our DC crew was hosting. I\u2019ve had some wonderfully aged examples from Hair of the Dog and De Dolle over the years that remind me there\u2019s absolutely positive potential in cellaring beers. But I\u2019ve accepted I just don\u2019t have a taste for oxidation\u2026 Nine times out of ten I\u2019m going to prefer that beer fresh.<\/p>\n

Same for vintage flights of Pinot. Ditto for aged sherry. Just how these tastebuds are wired.<\/p>\n

As such\u2026 I\u2019m always curious when people do keep a beer cellar (and not just of IPAs they forgot to drink\u2026 you folks know who you are). Where do you fall when it comes to aging beer? Do you keep a cellar? What styles do you like to age? (I\u2019d totally accept a cellar full of lambic…) Have your habits evolved over time? Chime in on Twitter at @RareBeerClub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of beers recently featured in the club have been vintage bottles, picked specifically because they\u2019re drinking at their prime, and it\u2019s had me thinking a lot about cellaring overall lately. 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