2017 Beers that You decided to Cellar?

I got a couple black note stouts and a couple 120 minute ipas to start my cellar. It's my first attempt at not drinking the beer right away, so we'll see how my restraint is. I'm sure I'll come up with something else to save too, but it's hard when everything ageable is already tasty...

 

I guess I'm throwing a couple barrel aged cherry stouts from bells in the cellar too. Too much cherry and little else in the flavor. I may mix one with a coffee heavy stout to see if it saves it.

 

Bigfoot, Narwhal, Expedition, 120 Minute, a few random barleywines, Backwoods Bastard, and Schlafly BBA Stout. I don't age BA stuff more than 6-9 months anymore and then only if they're too boozy fresh, because I find the barrel characteristics nearly always fall off too much before the aspects that make aged barleywines and stouts great have time to develop. My small fridge "cellar" is basically just a bunch of barleywines, a few imperial stouts, Double Bastard, 120 Minute, Orval and a few quads.

 

Lagunitas Willetized, Tröegs Mad Elf, and Tröegs Mad Elf Grand Cru.

 

I would drink soon, as only one aspect might improve. The rest of the beer will only go down hill imo.

Cheers!

 

CBS. I drank one when it was released and I will drink 1 at 3 months, and 1 at 6 months, and if they are falling off with the coffee I will drink them faster.

Breakfast stout and bigfoot which I buy some of every year.

Bruery 12 days series. I buy 2, drink 1 and age one to do a vertical eventually. I have the last 5

 

Intentionally or unintentionally? On purpose I stocked up on BCBS, Surly Darkness, Abyss, Black Note, and some barleywines I am forgetting the name of. Hopefully enough to try a couple for the next few years.

There's been too many great beers this year so I've certainly bought more than I can drink. Thus many of them are going to be cellared until I can catch up. Hopefully make a decent dent before next stout season!

 

The only thing I have that I am intentionally aging is Bells Expedition Stout, KBS, and CBS. I have enough of it that I can crack one open every 3, 6, 12 months to taste.

 

Putting aside vintage beer purchased, I added the following 2017 releases to my cellar:

BCBS
BCBW
BBA Ten Fidy
DFH 120
Cantillon Classic Gueuze
Ballast Point High West Victory at Sea
Lagunitas Willetized
Founders Backwoods Bastard
FW Velvet Merkin (not intentionally aging and will be consumed soon)
Allagash Common Crow
Cigar City Marshall Zhukov
Carton Sundae

 

I had a vertical of JW Lees recently, 2001, 2007, 2014. The 2001 had no oxidation at all. The style is a little sweet for my taste but I'd check those out.

I am aging the following

Bells Expedition
Founders Imperial Stout (RIP)
DFH 120 Minute, World Wide Stout, Bitches Brew
GI Bourbon County Brand Stout & Barleywine
Founders KBS
Bells Black Note
Bells 30th

Goose Island Sours

 

Treehouse
Sap X2
Haze X2
Green X2
Julius X3
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known X2
Bright
Doppelgänger X2
Alter Ego

Trillium
Pittsburgh Street
High fashion by Cloudwater Brewing
Congress Street
Heavy Mettle

Firestone Walker
Bravo 2017
Anniversary XXI 2017
Parabajava 2016
Imperial Walker's Reserve 2016
Scuba 2016
Pacific Gravity Weizenbock 2016 X2
Rye Double DBA 2016
Scotch Parabola 2017 X2
Dark and Stormy 2017 X2
Helldorado 2016
Champs de Fraises 2017
Feral One 2017
SLOambic 2016
Bretta Weisse 2017
Krieky Bones 2016

North Coast
Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin XX X2
Old Stock Ale 2015 (Wheat Whiskey Barrel Aged)
Old Stock Ale 2013 (Bourbon Barrels Aged)

 

I'm sorry are you aging TH and Trill hops? Did I read that correctly? Was this a mistake?

 

Apologies for the confusion...I typically use them as trading beer for other ageable beers.

I just realized how dumb that list looks

 

I do know someone though who lives close to Tree House and has the luxury of testing how their IPAs hold up after a year, for curiosity's sake.

 

Well better get trading because I'd be pretty pissed if I got an aged Tree House or Trillium IPA

 

I almost have too many to name for what I'm aging but here goes:

Ten Fidy
Backwoods Bastard
Bigfoot
Bells BN
Bruery Catcher in the Rye
SN and Fullers Vintage Plum ale
Fuller Vintage 2014
High on Hell
Crazy Brewskie
Before and After
Evil Twin Freudian Slip
Even More Jesus
Founders Imperial Stout
Arbor Brewing Violin Monster
Arbor Brewing Fig Jam Quad
DFH WWS, Oak Vanilla WWS, Palo Santos, Old School, Siracusa Nera, 90 minute, and 120
Shorts Batch 5000
Shorts Goodnight Bodacious
Founders Dirty Bastard
Stone RIS
Stone Old Guardian
Bells Expedition
Vivant Paris
Vivant Angelina
Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Witch's Hat Fury variety
And the list goes on

 

Yeah I have had a Treehouse IPA a year after canning and the quality still held up, but yes there are trades in progress.

 

The 2017 is already drinking well, perhaps the best of the past few years. I have a 7 year vertical coming up that I've been looking forward to.