Significant other beer cellar issues...

There was a topic similar to this not too long ago. Just keeping the off limits stuff separated is about the best way to go about keeping a cellar when you live with someone else. My dad even does that in his wine cellar, but with a dedicated section for everyday drinking wines.

 

I have a separate section in my fridge and cellar for the same reason. Most of what I have is open to anybody, and I don't have anything I'm not willing to share, but a handful of beers I won't open unless I get a pour.

 

If your problem with your wife and the beer cellar is that she wants to drink what's down there then consider yourself very very lucky.

 

Definitely I thought this was going to be a she wants me to stop buying post. You have all this beer why can't you drink it?

 

No one taps into my beer cellar boxes. If they did, I would probably create a separate box for open enjoyment with the expectation that I'm not the only one filling it.

I do have a typed up inventory of my beer cellar, so if they do drink something special, I'd know pretty quick.

 

I have a mini-fridge next to my cellar. If it isn't in the fridge, then it's not to be drank. Kind if like an on-deck circle

 

I have the same setup. Basically, the rules are as such (which we mutually agreed on):

Fridge upstairs - food only
Fridge downstairs - beer only, feel free to grab anything in there at any time and drink.
Cellar - off limits.

 

Serious question: Are there or will there be any posters on this thread for whom the "significant other" is not a wife? Not wanting to be sexist, but I always have been curious to what extent the combination of beer geekdom and "special stash" hoarding/cellaring is a mostly masculine hobby here, as none of my female beer geek friends are as obsessive or possessive about beer as males/me.

 

Same as everyone else basically, except that she has to buy her own beer. That way she knows what's hers, and where it is as she's stored it herself.

We've never had a question, although she has asked for stuff and I've either said yes or no with the problem mainly being that I feel she either won't like it or won't appreciate it (so I don't think she feels I'm denying her, just guiding her). I have no problem sharing, but I'd rather not have her open a bottle and not want it if I'm not ready to taste it myself.

 

I'm not a serious collector/trader, but have a decent horde and my significant other is male. He doesn't drink or really know much about beer. I learned I have to be very explicit what can and can't be drunk for when his friends come over. Conveniently most of the beer that's special to me is in larger format bottles so my husband just knows that anything in cans or 12oz bottles is okay to give away. I hide any smaller bottles I want to save behind all the bombers and no ones found them yet.

 

The cellar is all mine, wife drinks wine. Maybe I should cellar some wine!

 

I have an "on-deck" fridge, but I don't really share it with anyone, so I'm curious how you transfer a bottle from the cellar to the fridge for consumption. Just place it in the downstairs fridge the morning ahead of drinking it? It's a minor detail, but curious none-the-less.

 

I think significant other is generally construed as non-wife females more than being sex-agnostic, though it totally makes sense as a proper inclusive term, regardless.

To the OP, I'm surprised at how my GF generally will not touch most beers in our beer fridge. Sure, she'll grab any IPA, but never pulls a bomber for us if she's choosing (which she usually doesn't). I think it's more because I might have a plan for beers, she knows it's possible, and doesn't care enough to upset that plan, as long as she can grab a beer (IPA) when she wants. She's adamant about being a participant in any plans I do have, though - and that's great!

 

My wife doesn't complain as much as she probably should, she makes her remarks from time-to-time, there's way too much down there, but strangely, she never has a problem asking me on a weekend night, "hey, we gonna drink something good tonight?"

I tell her what's mine is hers, and that's true, but she would never open something without asking first, I'm sure.

 

My wife has never pulled anything from 'our' cellar to drink on her own, give away, take to a party, etc., but she would ask me beforehand if she wanted to do so, and she would likely get my okay. I've never had some of the beers in 'our' cellar, but I'm okay with missing out if she wants it. Maybe it's because 90% of the enjoyment of the beer was just finding it?

 

Haha my ex wife threatened to take half my beer cellar during our divorce to squeeze some things out of me. She doesn't even drink beer.

 

You will need to travel as a Ninja in pitch black anti universe so that no one's the wiser

 

I do not have this issue with my beer...as my wife doesn't drink it (I have had her try everything under the sun and thus far, no go).

I do however have the exact same thing as the OP with my wine cellar. She never has any idea what is for current consumption and what is being cellared (most likely because she doesn't purchase/pay the wine club bills). She would drink my Ovid just as readily as the Orin swift I bought at the grocery store.

To combat this I just made a shelf that is common knowledge to be drinkable wine whenever. I just restock that shelf as necessary so she can grab a bottle for herself or friends without worrying about drinking something that was to be saved. Working well this far

 

Damn. That's cold.