Addicted to buying

Huh. There's about 9 total beers in my house right now that I'd consider drinkable beer.

4 Tallgrass Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat (oldest beers I have, brought home from the last trip to Des Moines in January, along with other stuff that has since been ingested)
4 Not Your Father's Root Beer 5.9%
1 Great River Dirty Blonde

There's also 12 Habanero Sculpin bottles, but those are all for my girlfriend - if I won't drink it, it doesn't count for my purposes.

More power to you folks with beer cellars - I tend to drink as I buy, and not grab much extra. I may splurge a bit and grab a small hoard of favorite Ohio beers before my impending three-states-away move, though.

 

I think is it with me. I like collecting so it naturally translates to beer. I wonder why we humans have a compulsion for owning more and more. Luckily for me I am cheap so it does not get out of hand. Home brew on the other hand is another thing. I have way too much around even with summer coming. I am making the kids (28&32) very happy.

 

Fortunately my stinginess gets in the way of my desire to buy tons of beers that I won't drink right away. My "cellar" is currently about 12 bottles and that will vanish by the end of the year. But I see where you all are coming from. I have given much thought to building up a cellar.

 

It was 1 six pack at a time, over a period of several weeks/months. I know, I should have talked to my bartender about this "obsessive compulsive behavior". The eyes would get glazed over when I went down the beer isle, and the beer kept on adding up. Now at what point did the beer start to multiply on its own at night when left unattended, I couldn't say. All I know is it was getting harder and harder to get around in the house, and I was in denial. This happened to me, and from reading the posts in the thread, its happened to others as well. Totally, and completely inexplicable...

 

I think the more disturbing part than the quantity would be the above! You can be more discerning!

 

I use the "I just want to see what they have there" excuse, myself, quite often.

I have my 2 "locals" near where I work and I have 2 "locals" near where I live and, suffice to say, I know them and they know me.

 

My purchasing:drinking ratio is practically 1:1. I have two beers on hand right now, which is unusually high

Don't have inclination/ability/space to age beers

 

I definitely am afflicted with this condition. As a ticker, there are always new beers to buy and try, (as others in his thread have said, that a huge part of the fun of the hobby) but as I only drink on the weekends, my cellar/stock keeps gettI got larger rather than maintaining an equilibrium. I've had to put a moratorium on buying new beers several times, but between trades with buddies, more beers still seems to walk in the door. Still first world problems and all!

Cheers!

 

I'll be honest: there are three prongs to being a BA all equal to themselves

• Buying
• Owning
• Drinking

None is greater than the other in my mind.

 

I just started a "cellar" in my closet about 4 months ago and some of my friends think I am crazy for holding this much beer. I only have 30 bottles right now! Most of the thrill comes from the search in my case. There is relief once I acquire it and tons of enjoyment once I drink it.

 

I do enjoy checking out the beer selection at any store I find myself in that sells good beer. I enjoy stopping by bottle shops and seeing what's available. I might even make a special run, if I know something good is hitting the shelves.

On the other hand, there is no question, I enjoy drinking a good beer far more than having a good beer in storage. I buy beer to drink it.

I have a beer fridge that hold about 50 bottles. When its full I stop buying beer until some space opens up. This means I always have a great selection on hand, but I don't have what one would call a collection.

I find some limits allow me to keep things balanced.

 

I've said this before but I started collecting last year, before that, I started with one Moat Water left from a big haul of them, most of which we drank and I traded my last one for a '12 BT. Now, I have close to 400ish bottles, mostly bombers, mostly weighted bottles or "whales." I try to get two of each of anything in Florida, so I can try it, age one or give it to my pals. I focus on the bigger names now though because consistency is so hard to find.

I have two cases of FSW, Bruery, BCS and about a half case of GI variants; a case of Fremont, a case of CCB and a case of Cycle. Anything else you can think of like Darkness, DL, any Clown Shoes, Abyss, Hair of the Dog variants, FFF, Pugachev's stuff, I got it for days. It took A LOT of money and a lot of trading but now, I can drink whenever I want and I've met some really stand up guys through the process. I don't have to rely on local tap takeovers or special releases in Tampa to get my fix.

If anything, my pallet is becoming dissolved by toffee, caramel, molasses, bourbon and vanilla flavors.

 

I feel addicted to the shopping experience as well. However I also like to drink what I buy. Buy beer, drink beer. Buy more beer, drink more beer. It's a vicious cycle.

 

Aside from four or five bottles stuck in a cupboard gaining age and wisdom, all of my beer is on the bottom shelf of the fridge. But whenever an empty space opens up on that shelf, I rarely go more than a day before I've filled it.

 

I love shopping for beer and am getting a bit better at walking out empty handed

 

Guilty as charged.

 

I have 7 SN pale ales in my fridge

and 5 BCBS

Thats it!

 

I have poor impulse control when it comes to hobbies, I tend to tunnel vision and before I know it I'm investing 150% of my available resources. I'm like this with everything, be it my career or videogames or hiking or the gym or cigars or beer, electronics, music etc etc. Basically any of my vested interests.

My resolution for 2015 was to make a conscious effort to curb my impulse buying and only buy reasonable/realistic amounts of things. At one point last year I was spending like $300+ a month on beer, so far this year though I'm keeping it less than $100 for the most part.

 

sounds like me. what hobby would you like supplies for? Although some of them are still active: skiing, snowboarding, bicycling, screen printing, linocut, motorcycles, shooting, beer. There's gotta be some more...

 

Since when is having too much beer a problem???