If you don't have a cellar, why not?

I don't have a cellar. I just have a long list of beers that I need to drink before I find out that I should have had them fresh.

 

This. 100%.

My beer purchasing/trading is usually done at the same rate as my beer consumption. I "might" end up with a big stout or two at the end of the winter that tend to sit until cooler weather returns, but even that doesn't happen very often.

 

I typically buy beer that I'm going to drink in the next week. I have no desire at all to save beer for years at a time.

I'm also a college student, so it's not very practical for me to spend all my money on beer as an investment for the future. When I buy beer, it's to enjoy now.

 

2. What's "Silly" to one person is a hobby and enjoyable to another. So "Silly" is in the eye of the beholder.
3. Are you on your death bed or something? (OK, now if you are, I will never forgive myself...)

 

I live in an apartment, and couldn't afford to keep one, even if I had a house.

 

When I think of a cellar, I think of proper temperature AND humidity. A fridge can maintain the proper temperature of 50-55. But, the humidity in there, will be pretty close to 40 or less. Not good for proper aging.

Whenever I refer to my stash, I call it my "cellar" (in quotes), because it's only somewhat temperature controlled. The humidity inside the house is near minimal, with the A/C running 8 months of the year.

 

1) Because beer is better fresh.
2) In the case of the very few beers that do seem to age well, I think it is stupid to sit on bottles for years in order for it to taste good. If I only like Bigfoot aged, screw buying it and holding onto it for years, I'll just buy one of the other 50 barleywine's I do like fresh.

 

Yeah in Florida it is tough. I finally splurged and bought a wine cooler to store my beer in. It was tough for a while because I live in a condo and could only store so much beer in the fridge.

 

I used to have an average cellar but lean times call for cellar raiding!

 

Space, time, etc. are the obvious issues, probably even more than the $ is for most people. Personally, I think that aging beer is overrated with most beers that people try to age. Some beers improve, some do not and the ones that improve seemingly do so only over a short period of time like 1 to 3 years. So given the short period of time that most of these do peak, it has never been that hard finding bottles that stores frequently have had properly stored already for that amount of time. At least that is how it used to be, but now aged beer on store shelves are pretty rare (except for the wrong styles, like IPAs), but I still don't find that much interest in doing it myself, because there are still frequent brewery and/or beer bar events where aged batches are rolled out. I have about 50 bottles, but that is just random stuff where I could see the potential on a beer that needed to mellow out for a while or just extras that floated my way.

Too easy to get burned and have it end up a waste of time, space and money on beer that starts to turn before you get to it. Just look at the most widely known US craft brewers' attempt to create an aging program; Stone's Vertical Epic series. The whole idea was to buy each to collect and open as a complete series. I used to buy two at a time and everybody would ask if it was "one for now and one to age" and I used to laugh. I was getting one for myself and one to send to my friend and never aged any of them. Yet I still had two separate chances to run the whole series at the end and for anybody who was able to partake in any such tastings, you know that over half of those beers flat out sucked after aging that long. It was more out of curiosity, than anything else. I guess that is how I look at cellering beer. It is a hot or miss and only for people who are willing to commit the resources based on the odds of if a beer improves or not, because it is far from a guarantee.

 

In my finished basement...The back side of the walls make a perfect cellar and takes up virtually no 'useful' space!

 

For the most part I drink what I buy, with the exception of a handful of bottles that tend to wait for the right time. I guess that's technically a cellar, though I don't really think of it in those terms. Plus, if things start accumulating I'll just stop buying beer for a while and get it down to manageable levels again.

 

Lean times seem less lean when you sip on a well aged batch 1 Parabola.

I've thinned my mess out by way over 100 bottles.

 

because you're supposed to drink the beer.

you can't drink when your dead either...

 

I might hang on to a beer for a few months, but I don't see how I'm going to enjoy it that much more if I hang on to it for years on end. I much rather enjoy it sooner than later. If I had a bigger budget, I could maybe see myself doing it. At the same time though I see some guys though who spend above their means to have a cellar, and others who have more beer than they know what to do with.

 

1. Money
2. I'd rather homebrew
3. I like uncellarable styles more

 

I'm po'

 

why is the sky blue?