Cans and future saleability

Beer is not about making money on futures.

 

The $80 bottles of 1995 Samichlaus I saw the other day would disagree. Although they were sitting on a shelf, so it's not like demand was huge. But, I agree. If you want to make money investing, aging beer is probably not the best way. To make a whole lot, you'll have to have a massive cellar. And with the craft explosion, you can bet other people will have the same idea and we'll find that in 10 years there will be a whole lot more 2017 beers available than there are now 2007 beers available. Save some for away for your self and loved ones and have a truly enjoyable experience rather than make a few grand that you could have made investing in other ways.

 

@Scoopster35 i take it you are relatively new to the concept of cellaring beer (looks like you joined today).

To answer the first question- yes the can “can” last for about 10 years, there is a BPA liner so I wouldn’t recommend regularly drinking aged cans, but it is done as a practice in this hobby.

Bottles are more stable for ageing, some noteable examples from your neck of the woods are Thomas Hardy’s Ale, JW Lees, Courage Russian Imperial Stout, etc.

Is there a market for it? That depends. Here in the Seattle area, if you had the money and were guillible enough about cellaring, you could pay $100 or more for the privilege of buying a beer intentionally aged for 10 years or more by the store.

It’s kind of fun to drink a really old beer and contemplate the history you are drinking, other than that I cannot tell you why we do this.

Cheers!

 

I suppose you could age the moonraker, not sure if anyone would buy it per se, but would be an interesting flavor experiment. The JW I’m referring to is the Harvest ales/barleywines.

There has been some beer speculation in the past on eBay and other beer selling sites, there prices could get ridiculous quickly and you are never sure if anyone is even buying them or if people are just fruitlessly listing them at extortionist prices.

5 years ago I would have said you could have had some fun and possibly made some money selling aged and desirable beers, now I’m not so sure as it feels like that whole scene has withered to me.