The First Beer You've "Aged"

Are these still improving, or are you just seeing how long they can go? Have you found a peak in your opinion?

 

2014 Fremont Bourbon Abominable and it's started me down a path to ruin. I've built up a cellar of about 50 bottles in the last year. I still go back to the 2014 B-Bomb as my favorite beer ever.

 

I had an 06 bottle about a year ago, and it was still fantastic. I have a couple of even older bottles (02 and 04) that I was gifted by a North Coast rep that I plan on opening soon. I did a near full vertical about 3 years ago, and only the 01 was over the hill (they didn't have 2000), so it will be interesting to see how they have held up.

 

The first beer I bought specifically to age was a Spreucher (spelling?) Imperial Stout, this was maybe 10 years ago now.
I had picked up one and drank it pretty quickly, but in reading the hang tag, it mentioned that it gets better after a year or 2. I grabbed a couple more to lay down, and they were riught. Popped one a year later, it was better, and another year part, even better still. Haven't seen it since I had originally bought it, though...

 

Anchor OSA was the first beer I ever aged. Still put a couple bottles in the cellar each year. After years of cellaring, it's one of the few beers I've found that is worth cellaring.

 

King Henry for me. I didn't have any other beer cellared(in my crawl space) so I just forgot about them for a couple years. When they emerged I drank one and traded away 3. The one I had was absolutely stellar! I now have a proper temp controlled cellar, but no KH : ( ...

 

That was one of my first. Opened it at about 4 years and it was a deelight! Double Bastard held up just as well too.

 

My first beer I aged was 2006 North Coast Old Stock Ale [13.25 abv]. I still have a few left and has the beer ever rewarded me for letting it age. Just delicious!!!

 

05 Bourbon County stout. Set two aside from the original 4 pack and still have one left

 

Victory Golden Monkey around 2003-2004. I wasn't a big fan of the fresh bottles I bought, so I decided to "age" a bottle and let it sit in my bedroom at room temp for a year. Still wasn't a fan.

 

Most of the credit goes to the dusty, questionable shop I got it from...but around the end of the year, I picked up a mid-2014 Stoudt's Fat Dog Imperial Stout. I let it age for a few months longer and just recently drank it. So it was very nearly 2 years old. Thanks, poorly stocked store!

 

2006 Stone RIS and 2006 Bigfoot Ale were my first 2.

Eric

 

Various Sam adams fall, winter mixed beers.

 

The first beer I ever aged was DFH Palo Santo Marron. I started with a winner! I love this beer fresh and with two plus years on it(I don't notice much of a change in this beer at the 1 year point). I love this beer for aging because not only is it an amazing beer it is widely available year round so it is an easy one to build a vertical of and have several different vintages to sample. I grab a four pack periodically drink one(usually next two and aged bottle) and put the rest in the cellar. they are also a good beer to grab when cellar shopping and you cant decide what to drink(I'm prone to choose a beer I have multiples of or is not rare or limited if i am just looking for a beer for myself and not to share)

 

This one. A 2008 Bourbon County Stout that I opened and enjoyed just last year.

 

2009 bigfoot

 

Did you open the stone recently? I have a vertical dating back to 2006 and I have really been wanting to open this one but I am torn between breaking into my only bottle myself or waiting long enough to find enough people to get into 11 years of it at once

 

Gouden carolus: cuvee van de keizer blauw 2010 and Westvleteren 2009 where my first ones ..

 

Newer to the aging, so the first beer I've purposefully cellared would be '14 abyss. I think the "best after" date was pretty cool. Picked up 2015 abyss, but then I had '13 and really didn't care for it, so now in a bit of a pickle. Of course when I saw the Rye whiskey variant, I couldn't pass on that...

 

New to aging here too. I have a KBS 2016 that I picked up a couple weeks ago. Planned on just drinking it, then I found it on tap locally, so I figured this would be a good one to throw down into the cellar, aka my closet.