Addicted to buying

You need more Expedition Stout

 

Yes! I was thinking of starting this thread myself. Lucky the wife has let me take up enough room for about 40 beers at a time in the fridge. Then I got some dry storage with Bigfoot and some stouts and stuff. Every time I'm at the grocery store I check Thier inventory on craft and the dates to see if there is anything worth grabbing. I love the searching /collecting part of this hobby as much as I love to taste a fresh new ipa. It's harder to find good stuff in Alabama though so I'm always checking the stone /Sierra stuff around here for dates within a month or so. Really hard to get groceries and not grab something. Today I bought just a box of cheerios and I just had to get another bomber of arrogant bastard just so I have another after I drink the one currently in the fridge, lol.

 

I do love shopping for beer as finding something new to try is always a pleasure.

 

Ya, hope you know that your post will be used frequently by other BAs telling their significant others - "Look at what the other kids are doing, at least I don't have that much beer!"

Or at least I will be.....printing post right....now......

 

I've seen me do it.

 

The 600+ bottles in my cellar would probably suggest that I have the same problem as you.

 

I've been there. For about a year I would go buy mixed 6 packs often, even though I already had plenty of beer in the fridge and hundreds in the cellar.

Shopping for literally anything else is like torture for me. But beer shopping is actually fun.

 

Isn't this why we're all here???

 

Have a whole separate fridge for just beer. Can't buy as much as I used to but I would go to 3-4 stores at least 2 or three times a week to find what I wanted. I wouldn't go out of my way for anything else.

 

i've been holding back lately, but that wasn't true for awhile, constant purchasing. I stopped drinking on weekdays (mostly), and still don't get to crazy on the weekends, so I am buying much more than I could (or should) drink.

luckily nothing I've really been interested in has been coming out, helped me clear out some that I bought awhile ago.

i only keep a few in the fridge at a time, often brought up in the morning for that afternoon or night, because if they're in there, I am just too tempted to enjoy them. Same reason why I bring a single can of soda with me to work each day. If I had the entire pack here, I would probably drink 2-3 a day.

 

I believe that I have a collecting addiction. As I've said before, my dad is completely to blame for this . He is addicted to collecting antiques so when I was a little kid he got me into collecting baseball, basketball, and football cards. I would do extra chores around the house just so I could have a couple extra dollars to spend at the card shop. Now, I buy bottles that I won't drink for years just because I see them on a shelf and I have to try everything new when it comes out (well almost everything). First world problems I suppose....

 

My beer purchasing far exceeds my consumption rate. I think I am not alone on this within the BA community. So many great beers out there.

 

Its becoming a psychological disorder.....or at least its rewiring my brain.

First I delude myself to going to the beer shop ("I'll just go to see if they have this one particular beer"), then as I'm scanning all the labels like a maniac and checking the ratings on BA, I enter the "justify these purchases" phase.

Then, after feeling pangs of guilt, I enter the "ok what else can you give up in the coming weeks to offset this purchase." After I delude myself into feeling somewhat better, I proceed to wait out the pain that remains until I abandon all previously laid plans of giving something up. Then, I don't even drink anything I just bought (I drink something I bought 3 weeks ago instead).

And: I do this all involuntarily. My brain (and any kind of self control that might go with it) is helplessly in the back seat, and I'm running strictly on dopamine squirts to the nerve passageways in my arms, hands, and fingers. And legs, to get me to the cashier before I can put anything back.

 

Yep..

I'm gonna guess I have about 120 bottles total on hand right now and I drink anywhere from zero to five per week.

 

Beer collecting is the new materialism.

 

I buy a good deal more than I consume. You can consider me part of the choir that has chimed in thus far. It's just so damn enjoyable: finding new stores to browse, new beers to drink, even new breweries to visit and take growlers or bottles home from. My goal is to try as many beers as I can before I shake off this mortal coil, and ya gotta buy 'em if ya wanna try 'em. (Unless you attend epic bottle shares twice a week.)

 

Beer collecting is cheaper than coin collecting, but takes up a lot more space. On the other hand it tastes better.

I recently muddled into Kristalweissen, my new BFFL.

Acquiring things similar to, but not identical to the ones I have, seems an expression of my mild to moderate OCD.

My one healthy , arguably, expression is seeing how many miles I can ride my bike in a season. (525 this May, a personal best for a spring month.)

 

Was the SNPA a keg? or did you actually buy 6 cases at one time.

 

I have a cellar of about 900 bottles in total. So while I don't have a drinking problem, yes I do have a beer buying problem.

Fortunately the majority of these bottles are imperial stouts, barleywines, and sours; styles meant to age, so I'm not concerned about loss of quality before having a chance to drink this collection down.

 

I was working my stash down a little until I went to Chicago last weekend. Spent about Two Fitty at Binny's and The Beer Temple. I don't track IPAs or beers in my fridge for immediate consumption so beyond that I have 272 bottles, 127 unique beers, and 69 different breweries.