Retail value of your cellar inventory

I would say I am right around $250 in the cellar and another $250 in the to be consumed box/fridge.

 

My local store just got the PT Our Finest Regards. Is it worth picking some up for $9.99 a bottle?

 

I don't think I could ever bring myself to add it up, especially if I factored in the cost of trades. I'd say off the top of my head it's probably around $1,500. Around 150 bottles with an average of $10 a bottle. That's as in depth as I'm willing to go because it's probably more than that and I don't want to know.

At least I'm not a wine or spirit geek...

 

Despite my reviews it's def. my favorite non-barrel-aged barleywine. Smooth, rich, very malty.... and like 13%. 1st batch is aging very well. I bought a case of the 2nd batch. Want to do a 5 year with it. 3 more to go.

It's def. worth picking up a bottle.

 

I guess a better to way to approach this question is to ask "What percentage of your income is dedicated to cellaring?" If you are spending <5% yearly on your inventory then I'd say you are doing alright. I only have <1% which consists of roughly 20 bottles and 6 bombers in 14+ months. I'm also a college student, and do not have a proper cellaring space available.

 

Not adding this to the beer itself. Just in the mentality of how much money I have spent acquiring my cellar. If I retrade a beer, the value certainly DOES NOT go up because I paid to ship it once already.

 

My sentiment as well, I probably don't want to know (and neither does the wife)!

 

I don't really know how y'all do it. I've been cellaring for 16 months or so now and I'm only up to maybe 40 bottles valued at somewhere in the ~$500-$600 range as most are $15 barrel-aged barleywines and the like... but even at 40 bottles, I have no idea how I'm going drink it all as my birthday party every year only eliminates about 12-15 bottles tops and I only open 2-3 bottles a month otherwise.

Monthly budget is at $50/month, typically used on 3-4 specialty bombers.

 

Wow, sounds like you don't drink too much.

 

Cost is possible actually comparable in this situation. Think of how many drinks you may pour from a single bottle of Scotch versus out of a bottle of beer.

 

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I started cellaring around Sept or Oct of last year and am up to around 160 bottles at a value around $2,300. The local breweries like to charge an arm and a leg for the cellaring beers. I have recently pulled back the reigns on my purchases.

 

Renters insurance? How do you add that on esp with how it would rise and fall in value? Having gold, baseball cards etc is one thing? How do you claim/prove to the companies for losses and has anyone actually gotten money back for losses? Take pics?The whole idea intregues me. Please elaborate.

 

I would think beer cellar would be more like furniture. It doesn't rise and fall in value, it is the cost of purchase. And it is proven in the same way a tax deduction probably is: by receipt.

 

But you dont consume furniture.

 

In one store visit alone I spent a little over $2000, I found a goldmine and I went with it. But all together I think I have around 400 bottles and the value is probably $5000 to $6000. At least 100 of those are dedicated to cellaring for at least a year but up to who knows when, and I have other vintages dating back to the 1980's. Everything else is to be enjoyed within the next 365 days. And I too have told myself I would take it easy for a bit but managed to make excuses.

 

Maybe $400? That's a low estimate but it's still a little depressing

 

I would guess a few thousand at this point. It's always evolving... being drunk and reloaded.