Addicted to buying

I don't let myself get insanely overstocked like some of these super buyers, but I am constantly feeling the "what am I buying next?" itch.

 

I remember when I used to keep a beer budget at $50 per month. I laugh at that. Now I have no idea how much I spend.

 

I'm not a hoarder, only buy what I'm gonna drink soon.

However, after having a lot of drama at the weekend that is spilling over in to the week, the 30minutes I spent in a new (to me) bottle shop today choosing the rest of the weeks beer was blissful and took my mind off everything going on around me.

Drinking it will make me forget about it all now!!

 

Yep. My fridge is full, and not with groceries. Unless we start calling beer by that name...

 

@Gator_Chomp

 

When your favorite beer store is also an excellent upscale food market that carries beer and food you can't get anywhere else, you've got a problem. And oh yeah, the place has a dedicated beer/wine bar and pressure fills growlers from a selection of 16 taps. It's about a 15 mile round trip so I don't buy alot but I do buy often.

 

When the beer store with the best selection is a 120 mile round trip, stocking up is wise.

 

same issue here, I'll buy whatever I see that I haven't had yet. Come home and drink the IPA or the Belgium and throw the stout in the fridge. I now have 2 bar fridges, a shelf in the regular fridge and a closet full of stouts and BA beers that I'm too hesitant to have.

 

I love to shop and find new beers. I try to limit, however, how much I spend to 50-75 bucks a week(doesn't take long to reach that amount). I would say that I usually drink 90-95% of what I buy during that week and the other 5-10% gets put away, hopefully to age. Unfortunately, at least 50-60% of that which I put away to age gets consumed pretty quickly. I am not a good ager, lol !

 

I one time took a trip to VT and went crazy. I came back with 4 cases of heady a couple cases of Sip of Sunshine and a bunch of hill farmstead. What a big mistake. At the time I was just getting into craft beer and only knew of the hype so I went crazy. I had so much and I just couldn't drink it all in time and a lot of it ended up going "bad". Of course I eventually drank it all but it was less than peak condition.

 

Yes to the original question. I really like to walk through and get excited to see what they have. I also really want to go into any liquor store I've never been it.
Yes to the unasked question. I have a hard time not buying every beer I want to 'try' at the store. It's so painful to go into a store and walk out with only one or two sixers/bombers.

 

It's the thrill of the hunt! I'm hooked. I get anxious when my cellar bottle count dips below 75.

 

It's even worse when you have too much but then you see a great deal. Just saw 6-packs of expedition for 13.99 in NC and even though I already have enough from the last 5 years... I couldn't help but get some.

 

I think my inventory is on the verge of getting out of hand, but then I remember I have another empty shelf in the closet. I normally try not to buy more than a sixer or two a week maybe with a 750 (there are many exceptions though). Unfortunately I don't get a chance to drink more than one a day at home that much because of work, maybe one day a week where I can have a few.
Really my biggest concern is my tendency to load up on IPA, especially DIPA. I'll buy a 4pk, have one, love it, then hit the store to get another before they're gone. I need to buy more singles, although not many places near me sell them.
I get home and end up feeling compelled to just drink my IPAs because I want to enjoy them fairly fresh, even when I might really want a different style.

 

I check my phone ever day on the way home from work while sitting in traffic to see what the local beer store had delivered. I need to stop checking that facebook page.......

 

I've been "banned" from bringing new beer into the house until I decrease the amount of existing beer in the house. This is problematic, as I have recently been training for a marathon and have adopted a "no beer during the work-week" policy. Sooo...I went through my current stash and put together mixed sixers of my least favorites and "gifted" them to friends and coworkers who have expressed interest in trying new beers. Paying it forward and bringing new craft beer enthusiasts in to the fold.

 

I only buy beer that I expect to drink within a week.

 

Buying all this beer reminds me of a funny column from years ago by Mike Royko, an old Chicago newspaper columnist. Short version is he had a "Royko System of Food Shopping for the Single Man", which meant that he never shopped for more food until he had eaten everything in the house, and by everything he meant everything.

The long version is here, where he explains the many benefits of his system.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=MPwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2817,5714288&hl=en

 

I started a cellar a year ago got about 30 bottles in there now was working on drinking it down because rather drink it than move it. But I will be working in Santa Rosa for a month so I think it will get stocked up again being so close to so many great places. I already admitted I have a problem to my girlfriend she just encouraged it because she drinks good beer too. And my birthday is coming up so friends will buy me beer for the cellar.