Cellar Review Thread (2025)

Boon Geuze Vat 108 Mono Blend (2016)

magnificent geuze. Good half an hour out of fridge, even more layered somewhat after warming further. Still some lacing and significant carbonation. Geuze so suitable to age.

 

Hemel & Aarde Wild Turkey B.A. Bottled July 2, 2013

Amazing, smoke thick smoke, bit well received in a malt sandwich. Bottled July 2, 2013, so 12 years of my own birthday (week). Very impressive and great sipper. score 4.14

 

Suarez Domain Fruit Blend 5, 2022

2022 blend, featuring mostly peach flavour, the other supporting character fruit and vegetables lend it a long finish with a superior mouthfeel. Great sipper. Rate 4.04

 

Timmermans Lambiscus Blanche. Bottled April 15, 2021.
It's still lambiscus, but its faded on the edges which actually gives it some spunk. Carbonation still there. Light orange colour. Very earthy aroma. Rated 3.71

 

Wish they'd bring that back, one of my all time favorites.

 

I've had this bottle of Mighty Oak from Tree House for over 2 years, kept it cold. Pretty good fresh and maybe a little better now.



What bitterness there was is almost gone. I get lots of caramel along with candied cinnamon apples, sweet oranges, mint, and a bit of a lingering oak tingle. Tasting great right now, a victory for aging.

 

Not unusual to crave a beer I see reviewed here, but your review of this 2021 Expeditiion stoked my desire to have one of those right NOW more strongly than I have felt in quite a while. I too found 3-5 years to be when Expo hits its peak of amazingness.

 

Equilibrium There And Back Again Raspberry. Stock photo but exactly what it looks like right now. August beer.

Plenty of carb.7 years later glad to find. The aroma is less raspberry than when released, but the delectable mixed ferm. EQ uses has remained full of sourdough, rotted fruit, funk, and earthy/spicy notes while picking up some hormonal bretty notes that make the aroma different but just as good as in memory. Taste is all of the aroma notes, perfectly balanced, with even less raspberry than the aroma held, but all the other notes are balanced well, with the earhy brett notes and rotted fruit ending it well. Glad the carb. held up as it is the key to making this full bodied wild ale light enough to call refreshing. The finish is stellar, different than it was, but clean, fruity, and bretty enough to delight. What a great treasure this beer still is.

 

2019 CBS. Still sublime.

 

I've had this beer before at work, but not with as much age on it. Sadly, it has become not fun to drink. I have a feeling my drain is going to drink the rest.

Mirror Mirror - Deschutes Brewing - Bend, OR - English Barleywine - 11.2%

Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/49472/
2.92/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
From a 22oz bottle 2014 release. Best after 02/24/2015

There was a slight hiss upon opening the bottle. The beer is dark amber in the glass. I can see that there's clarity to the beer. What surprised me the most is the thick 3 finger tan colored head. Fluffy and frothy looking, it has very good head retention, and there's some lacing on the glass.
The aroma is deep and rich. I am getting a lot of nuttiness in the aroma. There's wine notes, that, to me aren't pleasing. I do get some hints of dark fruit. I also, sadly, get some wet cardboard notes.
Taste - Well it is actually somewhat mellow up front, which is surprising me. I do get the wet cardboard notes right away. There's a bit of nuttiness and dark fruit that come into play in the middle. The finish is a red wine flavor. Since I am not a wine fan, it is not pleasing to me. Sadly, each sip causes me to lower my rating.
The body is sharp feeling. The feeling of bitterness isn't very pleasing. No alcohol burn.
I have had this beer before, and it was good, but it didn't have as much age on it. Sadly, this beer has fallen way off, and really isn't pleasing to drink anymore.

 

BCBS 2013-Stock image. September beer. Paired with homemade whole wheat toast with homemade 2025 apple butter, and homemade dry sift hash bong tokes from homegrown 2024 Jack Herer X Northern Lights. It opens in a glass as I do one more toke and write this. Live review.

Glad to say it had a bit of a pop when opened with visible carbonation from pour, but no head. Five minutes later still some bubble activity showing. Hoperful sign. I grabbed some aroma that wafted to me, but now I take first inhales from glass. Mmm. dark and bitter chocolate, thick dark malt goodness, burnt caramel, espresso coffee, spicy and sweet alcohol, and just a light bitter edge that rounds this to perfection. It has aged to a state that the barrel notes are missing, but the flavors remaining have become a perfume that causes my salivary glands to fire with each of five sniffs.

The delectable flavors in the aroma all are present in the taste in the same clean, alluring balance,along with notes of currants. Quite delicious, completely excellent.

Still some carb. to keep this as "light" as possible for this full bodied gem, with a complex finish of char, burnt caramel, alcohol spice and bitter chocolate sweet that is clean, lasting, and begs for next sip. No off flavors in aroma, taste, or finish.. Zero! None!

Sadly this is my last, but def. interested to see how those extant among y'all hold up, as this tastes like it could go forever and just get different and wonderul without damage from time.

And the pairing of hash and apple toast is just amazing! Cheers! y'all!

 

Garún Icelandic Stout NR.19.4 bottled 2021.
Old school imperial stout. Somewhat edgy. Decent taste. Sherry cask was ok fun. Has really hung in there as a beer, these 14% abv stouts are robust!

 

Casey First Solo. Bottled 1/24/19. Brewed 9/18/18.
Starts as a Very tart grisette. But balanced not so sour. Funk forward. Good drinker.Yes, a little fade but in a good way.

 

Barncat Double Barrel Mother Night.Bottled 2019.

Still as flavourful as when released. Thanks Brian for cellaring one for the future, and the future is now. One of their several eyeopening stouts. Port has faded, rye has taken charge.