Best beer for aging

Discussion in 'Cellaring / Aging Beer' started by huddyball, Feb 27, 2014.

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  1. huddyball

    huddyball Initiate (0) Apr 3, 2013 New Hampshire
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    I will be welcoming my first boy (second child) into this world in July and I'd like to acquire ONE beer to commemorate his birth year. My plan is to cellar this beer until his 18'th or 21'st birthday. Any advice?

    Cheers and thanks.
     
    #1 huddyball, Feb 27, 2014
  2. tommyguz

    tommyguz Pooh-Bah (2,534) May 14, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    Well I put a few aside for me to drink when my daughters turn 21, 2011 & 2013 Birth years. I put aside DFH WWS, DFH 120, I have some other random stuff, but those two are the two I plan on saving at least 2 bottles of...oh and I got some Bigfoot from 2013 (which reminds me to ISO of 2011s). I didn't think to get any Bigfoot in 2011, but wish I did because I had a 1995 one this year and I really enjoyed it.
     
    #2 tommyguz, Feb 27, 2014
  3. pjkelley82

    pjkelley82 Initiate (0) May 23, 2013 New York

    I'd say get a few.... pick a bunch of stouts with high abv.. black tuesday, utopias, wws. Also do some wilds and lambics and see if you can find some of the more recent thomas hardys as I hear they age great. Id also put away a piss beer like bud or miller just to experiment as well...
     
    #3 pjkelley82, Feb 27, 2014
  4. JasonLovesBeer

    JasonLovesBeer Initiate (0) Mar 27, 2013 Canada (BC)

    The options I'd consider off the top of my head:

    Hair of the Dog Adam
    Hair of the Dog Fred
    Rochefort 10
    Westvleteren XII
    Tilquin Gueuze
    Cantillon Gueuze
    3Fonteinen Gueuze
    Bruery Bois

    Very few stouts will be good after that much time.
     
    #4 JasonLovesBeer, Feb 27, 2014
  5. ASak10

    ASak10 Initiate (0) Jan 2, 2014 Colorado

    I did this for my sons and picked up some bottles of Fuller's Vintage Ale from each of their birth years.
     
    #5 ASak10, Feb 27, 2014
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  6. PeprSprYoFace

    PeprSprYoFace Maven (1,475) Feb 18, 2008 California

    Gueuze, seems to be the one people report that ages best for that long
     
    #6 PeprSprYoFace, Feb 27, 2014
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