Have you ever $ valued your cellar?

That's a good idea. Do you think all standard home owner's insurances cover something like that?

 

Are you valuing bottles by price paid? Or secondary market possibilities? Like, is a 2007 DFH 120 World Wide Stout worth $9.99, or some undefined greater value?

 

I did this at retail value or close enough to it, no shipping, no other value added. My average per bottle was $11. 500+ bottles. I need to find a way to cut back. But no, instead i joined up with a guy on his Bruery Horders membership, sooooooo....

 

Mine is just above $1,500. I keep a spreadsheet with what I paid for the bottles currently in the cellar. I don't trade so all I have to do is look at the receipt.

 

From an msrp standpoint 2-3k. From a secondary value I would say 6-7K. Scary to actually think about it.

 

I just took inventory this week, I estimate just under 250 bottles @ $1.2k MSRP...nothing crazy in there, unfortunately. Just some Dark Lord 15 and a case + 6 of Bell's Saturn - that one might hold up for a while.

 

You all are making me feel MUCH better about my cellar (or worse, I'm not sure which). I've got right around 100 bottles and half are small format so I'm guessing I'm somewhere around $800 or so. I've been focused on drinking it down this year so that has helped as well. I'm guessing another year or two and I might be back to something reasonable!

 

Not until I read this thread! A quick talley looks like around $1500 or so. That's still cheaper than my other hobbies!

 

I would think so, like any other collectible - but I'm looking into it. I'll post when I get an answer from my insurance co.

 

I have been cellaring beer since 2008. Mostly Imperial Stouts, Barleywines and Old Ales. I wouldn't want to begin to attempt to determine the value. But this I know, sharing these beers with family and friends is PRICELESS.

 

Honestly I have been cellaring for around a year and am probably in the $300-500 range, but I'm a college student and most of my cellaring is stuff that runs under $5 a bottle with a few $10-20 bombers thrown in there.

 

Im guilty of just overspending. Took one last trip to Cantillon and Drie Fonteinen and dropped almost 300 Euros on various stuff. Thats not even counting a 575 Euro bill from Bierhalle Deconinck.

Stopped by a friend and he handed me a couple cases of Westvleteren 12 plus other tons of stuff. All in all I think my bottle count is nearing 1,000 bottles at a retail value of thousands. If my wife knew she would probably kill me and choke me. Call it an ivestment sort of like a hobby or something like that
Im lost on retail price...what does a case of Westvleteren go for these days??? Multiply that times 7 just to start

 

Sounds like I'm not in the minority here. I would say I have around 200-250 bottles at ~$5 a piece. ~$1000 sounds about right. I have a buying problem, not a drinking problem...

 

Two things my girlfriend has learned not to ask, how much I spend on beer and golf/golf equipment.

 

€40 at the abbey (+12€ deposit). Grey market prices between 110-150 for a crate (deposit included)

I've never valued my cellar, I got a lot of beer because I love aged beers. When I buy my beers, it's for drinking them after 3-5 years. I started aging 5 years a go, and

I stored for example 7crates of orval (picked up at the abbey), 9 crates of westvleteren XII, VIII and blond, 3 crates of Rochefort 8, 3 crates of Rochefort 10, 40+ bottles Cantillon, 50+ bottles 3 fonteinen (golden blend, oude geuze, oude geuze vintage), 20+ bottles Tilquin, cases from Struise Brouwers, Dochter van de Korenaar, Boon, Lindemans, Horal, ..

Always bought for good prices, never paid too much. I buy my beers always at the abbey of a cheap(er) beerstore here in Belgium..

 

Seeing how much I was spending on craft beer was a major factor influencing me to start home-brewing.
That's not saying I don't still buy other brewers' beers, but if I can produce a world-class tasting brew for $1 per 12-oz bottle, why spend many times more?

 

There is a great App called Brew Vault ( http://www.brewvault.com/about.htm ) that a few of us use due to ease of use and ability to export to Excel. It "syncs" with an online server so at home I use my iPad and after buying/drinking I use my iPhone. If you can keep it up to date, it also tells you numbers for:
Bottles in Vault
Brewers in Vault
Total Value
*You can see different numbers if you use the Filters for: Brewer Type, Type, Style, Year, Country, State, Min Price, Max Price

 

And yeah, I do not let my wife know I'm at 250 bottles from 35 brewers for over $2500

 

I had to inventory with pictures and provide secondary market value "data" for my cellar to get approval from home owners to assure it was covered. It was and it a pain in the ass since it has to be updated (either with drastic changes or annually, whichever occurs first).

But it is insured.

When I was a renter, my renter's insurance wouldn't cover it, I had to purchase a supplemental "personal inventory" insurance.

Don't ask me the names of companies and stuff, because my wife just tells me what to do and I perform accordingly.