boogoop, age or drink?

drink, don't age. as per my (characteristically too wordy) review, this isn't some classy, endless-depth barleywine/quad kind of beer, that will mellow out and steadily deepen with age. it's in your face hops, in your face decadent malt.

either split it with someone else who loves C-hops and dessert-beer maltiness, or pick a night when you don't mind getting really drunk and take it down yourself (preferably over the course of an hour or two, or longer). don't wait for the hops to fade, because it's never going to turn into pannepot. it's candy bar beer for hop/malt lovers.

 

Drink, but open it at just below cellar temp (45-55)

 

hopefully i'm not leading you astray. as you can see, i thought the beer was great.

 

I'm planning to open my last one this Sunday with a few friends before the Radiohead show!

I'd agree, open it rather than aging it.

 

Leave it to FFF to help make a Mikkeller beer drinkable with an immense amount of hops.

 

OP -

Most beers are not meant to be aged. Aging a beer only benefits you if you're either trying to take the edge/heat/hops off of a beer or are trying to have it transform into a completely different beer. If that's your bag, go for it.

If you go into creating a cellar with this mentality, you won't end up with a cellar full of crap. I have American beers on hand that I'm actually afraid to open. The occasional experiment is alright, but do yourself a favor and don't waste the money making a cellar of beers that taste really good right now.

As for creating a cellar, your your avatar looks looks like a good starting point. Man, I miss college.

 

neither.

 

A little off topic: I always wondered why this beer is classified as "wheat wine". It doesn't contain wheat, at least not in any significant amount, does it?

Just to note: buckwheat is not some kind of wheat. Not only they're not related, they're completely different... animals

 

This beer is pretty astringent, I think it's from the buckwheat rather than the hops. Dunno if that will drop off or be emphasised with age.