Is your beer fridge selection more about breadth or depth?

I try to keep a good stock built up. I love to offer a friend a beer they have never had..I tend to build it up and then I don't go to the store for a while and I start to empty it. It slowly turns into the beers I don't like as much. Need to stock up.

 

I am the same exact way, I love picking the perfect beer for the mood and I am also a very indecisive person. So I'll stand there with the fridge open for like 10 minutes until I finally choose what I want. I even take it out, let it sit on my coffee table and put it back because it might not be really what I want.

It would be nice to be normal

And definitely the case with me. The variety of styles and choices within those styles lets me pick the perfect one for the occasion. It is a hobby after all, and I do enjoy it!

Also another reason, and one reason why my friend only keeps a few beers in his fridge is self control. He sees beer as something like chocolate cake. If he had a cake on his counter, it would just temp him to keep have more slices. Kinda like when your on a diet, you probably don't want to even buy potato chips, if you see them you might eat them.

 

I probably have between 1-2 dozen different kinds of beer in my house at any given time, including homebrew. I try to keep the basics in stock -- a couple IPAs, some darker/maltier brews, a few hard-to-gets, and an assortment of other easy to drink low-tier craft brews that keep me in beer without breaking the bank. I hunt distributors for good end of season deals, too, which is how I got a couple cases of Brooklyn BCS and a case of Saranac Trail Mix for $15 each. The BBCS is the only beer I have any "depth" of at the moment, aside from my homebrew (5 gal batches).