Do you have a place in your will for your beer?

Funeral bottle share.

 

I haven't put this in writing but I will someday. My cellar must be consumed on the day of my funeral or it will be drain poured, never to be seen again. If I never get married, my last bottle of Westy 12 will be buried with me.

 

If you die the same day you finish the last bottle, you WIN!

 

I'm just working on getting my cellar down to a level where I don't have to think about this.

 

Interesting thread because a significant collection (especially in a non-community property state) may need to be addressed in estate planning. For most people with a will, unless a beer collection is specifically addressed, the collection would fall under "personal property." Always seek the advice of an attorney licensed in your state to prepare a will.

 

That's so funny, I actually have verbal instructions to my wife for my collection of mini liquor bottles which at on time was over 200 bottles. I guess my beer would go to the same people.

 

You and I are thinking alike. Most estate planning lawyers, to my knowledge (and I'm not an estate planning lawyer) discourage specific personal property bequests. Frequently specific personal property bequests open up all kinds of problems. Generally, everything these days go to a trust (avoid taxes) anyway. However, it is also my understanding that there is frequently a letter to a loved one that "instructs" wishes for any personal property bequests and the deceased just hopes his/her wishes are followed. Of course, a lot of this depends upon one's net worth in any event. As utfiero said, you should discuss this with an estate planning lawyer if you're concerned.

I will tell you that when my father died a few years ago I put a bottle of his favorite Scotch in the casket with him. Once he was placed in the grave I poured a half of bottle of the same stuff over it and while he was being buried we past around the rest of the bottle! You know what? I really liked doing that and I'd do it again. He would also have liked it.

Just a thought but you could also do that with beer. I'm older than most on this site and I also have a large cellar. Personally, I hope that I will have consumed or given away most of the cellar before "that day!"

 

I'm not worried about whats in my pantry or fridge and freezers, so I certainly could give to thoughts to whatever happens to a perishable item after I die.

Beer doesn't have any value outside of the ISO/FT section.

 

This is what my WIFE has told me regarding my cellar -- which goes back to early 80s Thomas Hardy's, Courage RIS and Bigfoots.

She'll alert three great beer buddies that I have gone to the great hop yard in the sky (Wayne, Doug and Mark) and the first person to show up gets the lot. All three are nearly 850 miles from me so it will be interesting to see who gets here first.

My guess is that all three will just have an incredible party (among themselves only, of course) in my honor.

 

I'm being embalmed with my best bottles contents.

 

You know, I have often thought about this topic. Not about the beer I own, but because I have a very large cigar collection that people ask me about for when I "check out". I really don't have a clue as to what would be done with my cigars/wine/beer, but I'm sure I will care less... As where I will be will not require "stuff". I've often said to just give to my buddy Steve, but I'm sure he'll dwindle it away. I'd just prefer that my family keep what they want and give the rest to people that will enjoy it. Don't you dare "waste" my beer by pouring it over me! DRINK IT!

 

Why die with a stocked cellar? Unless you did it wrong and die with a cellar full of beer not worth drinking, you may as well polish it off before your ass hits the great bar stool in the sky. You can't take it with you, and it's a hell of a lot better to share it with friends in life than it would be to share it with them in death.

 

Only on BA...

 

I don't cellar so no problems there. I was thinking since everyone will be drinking at and after my funeral I'd charge to attend.
show up and morn - 1 shelf beer.
slap cadaver - 1 barrel aged beer.
spit on cadaver - 1 whale
pee on my grave - 1 sour whale.

 

My collection means nothing to my family. They don't share the enthusiasm of good beer like I do. I don't have a huge cellar compared to some (maybe 150 bottles). But when I pass, I would like it to be Weekend at Bernie's style, where they take my corpse all over the place, while they drink my beer. And if that doesn't happen, I would hope they would have a huge party in my honor.

 

My son and daughter can divide my beer, liquor, firearms and contents of my Man Cave.

 

I'm a philanthropist. After I die, my beer cellar will go to needy children.

 

Mine would go to my brother, he's one of the only friends I have that appreciates good beer.

 

eh, I think it'll go to the way of my vast cigar collection.... not sure. The wife does like beer so maybe she'll drink it. She doesn't like cigars. She may sell them, who knows. I really don't care all that much about it, I'll be dead.

 

Don't have a place in the will, but I do have one in my bladder.

 

You better be careful. There's probably a half dozen dudes in this thread that will propose to you.